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Masking smart objects

Masking smart objects - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking smart objects

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we'll take a look at masking smart objects, which works pretty much the same way it does for standard pixel based layers, with one important exception, as we'll see in this movie. Alright I'll start things off by switching to my image in progress. And we're going to start with the Flame 1 layer, so I'll go ahead and select that layer, and I want to start things off by masking the entire layer away. So rather than clicking on the add layer mask icon, at the bottom of the layers panel, I'm going to alt, or option-click on it, to create a black mask. Alright now you want to go ahead and select the brush tool, which you can get by pressing the b key, and I'm going to right click inside the window and select this sixth brush on the first row. Not this row right here, but the first row of predefined brushes, which is called Hard Round Pressure Opacity. And that's going to scoot the hardness up to 100%, I don't want it quite that hard, so I'm going to take it…

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