Painting on a Vector Mask in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Incorporated and I am no way affiliated with Adobe. Okay, now in this tutorial we are actually going to be talking about painting in the areas with the brush. Now say for instance your layer mask is selected like you can see right over, but you click your paintbrush and all of sudden your paintbrush watch is down here as you can see, it is white and gray you have no black, all you have to do is hit the "D" on your keyboard and black is going to show up. Now if black is on the bottom all you have to do is hit the "X" key and black will come on the top or you can hit this little arrow and it will switch. So, basically now black is selected, now our brush is selected and we want to make sure we have a good brush. So I go up to our Brush Palate and I have been using this sideways brush for different tutorials so what I am going to do now is actually click on this arrow as you can see way up here and a I am going to zoom in for you guys, right there. You want to go to "reset brushes", you want to hit "okay" and it is going to automatically reset your brushes to the normal. What you want to do is you want to click something that is soft but not soft, you bring the hardness up to like twenty. Now opacity, you want the opacity to be one hundred and you want to make sure that your mode up here is on normal as you can see. Now basically all we have to do is make our brush a little bit bigger and start painting, we can paint back and on our layered mask as you can remember, on our layered mask that we are painting and it is painting what is in color below. As you can see I am simply just painting what I want to be in color, which is a very, very simple process. It takes a little bit of time to perfect because sometimes the image can be kind of hard to do because of hair. Say for instance like this one, we want to zoom in for you by hitting Command plus. You want to actually just go ahead and just clean up all this hair. If you want to make your brush smaller or bigger, you hit the "left and right" command, I mean left and right brackets. I am going to paint in her hair, paint in her arm, paint her legs. Now as you can see there is a lot of noise in my image, there is noise in the sky, there is noise everywhere as you can see and it is because I shot with very high ISO and my camera is not very good on high ISO. But if you got a really good camera, you will probably get less noise and I actually have a method of taking all my noise out that I use and I can probably teach you that here pretty soon. But as you can see we got ourselves "Color Inverse Picture", it looks really, really clean. If we possibly could, we can actually hit this button right here, as you can see I hit the other layer and blur the background, just by simply selecting "Feather, Filter Noise median". Bring that up and hit "Okay", now we got ourselves a picture that does not have so much noise on the sky as you can see, but his hair is not selected properly, so all you have to do is go back in there and select the edges and stuff, make it look realistic. Well, basically I showed you guys a real simple way to do this, it creates a very powerful image as you can see here. It is a very clean image and all you have to do now is merge everything down. That is one method of doing it and I am going to show you several other ways."