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Making your mask the best it can be

Making your mask the best it can be - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Advanced

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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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