From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
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Making your mask the best it can be - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced
Making your mask the best it can be
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to test the viability of your layer mask using the Magic Wand Tool. And this is that same trick that I demonstrated in the previous chapter, but I really want to emphasize it, because it's a great habit to get into. And then I'll show you another trick for improving the quality of your masks, and finally, we'll go ahead and set the model against a new background in order to create, what I consider to be this very credible effect here. Alright, so for starters, bear in mind that, we want everything inside the model to be white, and everything outside the model to be black. We of course, want some gray details in between, in order to convey natural softness, and accommodate the very fine details of the hair. But if you look very closely, right there, I don't know if you can see it in the video, we've got this weird, dark gray glare coming off the shoulder, that should be absolutely black, because otherwise, we're going to keep a little bit…
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Compositing like a pro2m 2s
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Static selection vs. dynamic layer mask6m 35s
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Perfecting mask edges with the Smudge tool4m 46s
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White reveals, black conceals6m 43s
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Real-world layer masking7m 21s
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Combining multiple passes of Color Range6m 38s
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Painting away gaps in a layer mask11m 55s
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Making your mask the best it can be11m 32s
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Feather and Density = even better hair8m 12s
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Introducing the Select and Mask command5m 19s
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The Global Refinements settings4m 18s
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Edge Detection and Smart Radius6m 54s
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Refine Edge Brush and Decontaminated Colors5m
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Turning day into night with Camera Raw2m 46s
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Blending hair into a nighttime sky8m 32s
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Bringing back Refine Mask5m 24s
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