From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals

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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay

Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals

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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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