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Mr--Jack β Quick Mask Tutorial
Published: 2009-05-24 01:01:54 +0000 UTC; Views: 31632; Favourites: 690; Downloads: 1322
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I get a lot of questions about this whenever I use it in a video or in a wip process example, so I thought I may as well go over it in a bit more depth. It feels like something simple, and is very easy to use once you get the hang of it, but I never know how confident people are in PS so it might be helpful. Shouldn't go around making assumptions.Enjoy! And hope it helps.
I'm working in Photoshop CS3 here.
Keyboard shortcuts should translate fine, just substituting ctrl for β.
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This explains a lot, I think I needed to see this tutorial a long time ago, thank you Mr--Jack, youΒ΄ve been always most inspirational artist for me
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This would make for a great video tutorial!
- Alty
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You know I scrolled through your tutorials because I'm really trying to get into using a tablet and photoshop more nowadays. This one is amazingly helpful for me!
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This is a really nice one, it cleared up some of my principle questions, but i don't understand what the last part has to do with the one before, and how u done it... I will have to study this...
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As long as you understand the basics just playing around with it is probably the best way to get the hang of it
Cheers!
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Wow, very informative! This looks like a great technique, I will be studying this carefully
Thanks for sharing!
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No probs, it's a pleasure to be helpful.
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Wow, I was desperately looking for this on the net. Thanks for the helpful tutorial.
Nice lamb, by the way
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Great! I must try this one! Thanks for the tutorial!
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UFFf Exelent!!, as always thk for your colaboration with noobies like me XD, just wait until vacations and i will bomb you with questions
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Yeah, really cool. I've thought about about using the quickmask like this before but always fell into my same routine. I will definitely give this a try. Thanks for the tut!
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Ah, most excellent. Didn't know about the invert part; that'll be most useful!
Also, "β-clicking a layer icon and loading its selection is on a PC"
You were right, it's just Ctrl-Click.
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No probs!
(and thanks for clearing that up)
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there are missing the highlights on the body, dont they?
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Not particularly; it's not a white lamb (or, not any more), and short fur like that doesn't really need it, it's not supposed to be shiny all overβand that wasn't the point of the tut anyway, so I didn't want to get carried away.
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hmm, ok..
i wondered why there are no highlights at the places where the hip bones are.
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That sir, is a creepy lamb. Thanks for the tutorial, you gave me some interesting ideas.
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I'm a but confused on how you "load" the lineart to remove the quick mask that's out of boundary. I tried using magic wand tool, but it doesn't work properly... What do I do?
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Fair enoughβIf you've made a new layer previously which is the just the background filled with a flat colour, then to load that selection while in quick mask mode you just command-click on the layer icon of that layer. Hope that makes sense.
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Ah... got it. Thanks for the clarification and wicked tutorial
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