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Masking For Idiots
Published: 2009-09-28 09:07:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 19490; Favourites: 496; Downloads: 590
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Remake of my earlier Masking Guide. Original:Personally I think I managed to make some vast improvments. Mainly things are explained more in more simple terms and more slowly. Audio's a tad off, but syncing audio with vid is just something my computer hates doing.
Oh 3 things i forgot to mention about the Masks pallete! On the bottom of the pallete there are four icons, i explain one and forgot the other three. The one next to the load selection button is hte apply mask button, this button applies the mask to your layer, getting rid of the mask in teh process... that's a bad thing since you can't edit the mask anymore, next to that button is the the eye button, that disables/enables the selected mask, in the right corner of the pallete is the trash can. that deletes your mask, no harm done to your layer. 
The Masks Panel only appears in PS CS4 and later versions of Photoshop.
ALSO! If you use this, you must abide by my terms of use!
Stock used in the "Simple Compositon" used to demonstrate adjusment layers:
EDIT
Holy fuckballs. It got a DD! THANKS FOR THE SUPPORT!
Be sure to check out my other tutorials
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Comments: 75
a very good video man
can you teach me how you put the veido on DA?
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You mean like embed it on your profile?
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Just copypasta the embed code. Should work. 
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Niceee, I learnt other ways to use masking.
And your voice is sexyyy
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I even let the video run for falling asleep
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Where was this video when I needed it? 
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Do you know why the black makes it go away?
I'm very confused about this part. D:
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It's just a way of describing opacity using colors. Greyscale makes the most sense since it takes up so little bits to generate the colors. That's all it is.
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Okay.
By the way, thank you for the video.
It's too bad I never use Photoshop anyway...
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I might have to watch this many times to remember each separate mask technique
Great work
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Thank you so much! I could never understand masks, and this helps alot!
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Thank you so much. This helped me understand those masks. I just got CS5 for Christmas and I decided to use it as my main drawing program. Understanding masks is one of the things I could never understand.
Thank you
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Yeah i am one of the idiots that needed help thank you! Still so much to learn but i will get the hang of it
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thanks, i finally get it after trying to figure it out by just image tutorials. videos make all the difference mang
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Congratulations, now I feel like a dummy since "Masking For Idiots" was useful for me.
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Hey, don't laugh! It's your fault after all
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Hmm, it's hard to get more than emoticon out of you, eh?
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thanks so much for this! I've never used masks in my entire life, and having been more or less self-taught at photoshop I've always done stuff manually. Now at least I won't have to worry about creating back-up layers in case I don't like my adjustments!
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DUDE!!
I do not know much about photoshop at all, but that is so helpful!
I am going to apply it.
Thank you soo much for creating that tutorial.
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A shame about the low audio because this is a really good tutorial.
One thing I don't think you mentioned about adjustment layers is that they don't have to affect every layer below it. Alt-click between a layer and an adjustment layer and the adjustments will only apply to that one layer. Pretty nifty, I use it all the time.
Congrats with the feature too!
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Well I did record this like 2 years ago. I've long since improved my audio.
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Oh, I did not look at the date. I checked out your Great Stock Search vid now. You, sir, are quite funny.
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A very good tutorial.
I have to download it and try some things with masking things.
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Congratulations! Your wonderful tutorial has been selected as our "Tutorial of the Week"! It is featured in this news article and on our profile page. Thanks for taking the time to help the dA community. Our hats are off to you!
-The *Critique-It Staff
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when it comes to PS, there is never just one method.
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When it comes to PS, the objective is to make the user lose their minds.
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