From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
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Layer mask essentials - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: The Basics
Layer mask essentials
- [Instructor] Layer masks are a key feature of Photoshop that allow us to non-destructively hide and show selected portions of our image. We can see that this document has six different images, each on its own layer. So we have a birds layer, we have the skyline of Chicago, we have some clouds, an iceberg, some smoke, and a porthole. The first thing that I want to do is I want to mask the iceberg so that it only appears within the porthole. And to do this, I'm going to first create a selection. I think the easiest way to do this would be to go to the View menu and then show our Rulers. Then from the ruler area, we can drag out guides. So I'm going to drag out the first guide at the top of the porthole, and then I'll use the ruler on the left side to drag out the guide to the left side of it. I want to drag these guides to this inner area here so that when I select the Marquee Tool, I can start at the crosspoint of those two…
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