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

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Reversing a mask with Invert

Reversing a mask with Invert - Photoshop Tutorial

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

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Reversing a mask with Invert

- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to take our meticulously selected hummingbird and we're going to introduce it into this more cheerful background and you'll see how gorgeous the composition looks and along the way, I'll show you how to reverse the selection using the Invert command and I'll show you how to turn the RGB image on and off in the quick mask mode just by pressing a hidden keyboard shortcut. Alright so I'll go ahead and switch back to the hummingbird. First thing we need to do is convert it to an independent layer by switching back to the Layers panel and then double clicking on the background item, and that'll bring up the New Layer dialog box at which point I'll just go ahead and name this layer bird and click OK. Alright now we need to convert the selection to a layer mask by dropping down to the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and clicking on it, at which point of course, I realize my mistake, which is I never got around to selecting the…

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