From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay
Over the course of this chapter, I'll be passing along a few additional masking tricks. We'll also cover a few fundamentals of compositing; we'll see what to do when things go wrong. In this exercise, I'm going to show you how to view a mask and an image at the same time so that you can get your bearings and decide what kind of modifications need to be made to the mask. I'm working inside of file called Wikked comp.psd and the idea here is we are building a magazine cover. You'll see that I've got this text elements group here inside the Layers panel and it contains an editable type layer set in Myriad Pro Bold Condensed which should've been automatically installed on your machine along with the Creative Suite. Then, the rest of the text I've gone ahead and converted to a shape layer. That way, the image remains scalable in case you want to make it larger or up sample the image, that kind of thing. In other words, the text will always remain smooth. I'll go ahead and twirl that group…
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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay6m 13s
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Changing a mask's overlay color5m 34s
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Painting inside a mask6m 3s
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Cleaning up and confirming5m 18s
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Combining masks5m 10s
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Painting behind and inside a layer5m 27s
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Blending image elements6m 1s
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What to do when layers go wrong6m 3s
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Hiding layer effects with a mask4m 22s
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Introducing clipping masks5m 29s
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Unclipping and masking a shadow3m 50s
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The mask meets the composition1m 8s
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