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Summary: Masks are a Photoshop feature that covers over aspects of a layer, masking a selection to be kept hidden. Learn to use the layer masks in Photoshop CS3 in this free Photoshop tutorial video.
Julio Costilla has been shooting photos since the age of 14. His dream was to become a professional photographer before the age of 25, which he made with years to spare. He owns and...read more
"Adobe Photo Shop is a registered trademark of Adobe Systems Inc. and I am in no way affiliated with Adobe. O.k., so this tutorial were actually going to mask in the sky and, the way we do that is we go down to our vector mask or, layer mask icon over here under layers pallet as you can see, and you want to click it, and then you're going to get this white dialog box that comes up over here on your layer, your top layer, and you want to get your brush, and you want it to be at one hundred percent opacity, and you want to make sure that the color over here that is selected is black. O.k., so now that we have black we want to make our brush a little bit bigger, at one hundred percent and you want to make sure that the brush is, a, the hardness is down, so that we can make like twenty percent. Now, all you have to simply do is just paint in, as you can see I'm doing and, obviously we?re not going to be changing color on the grass. Reason being, the only color we changed earlier was blue, so that is the only thing that's going to masked in is the blue. As you can see, it's not changing anything else it's just changing the blue. So, you don't have to be worried about changing the. You don't have to be still precise with your masking here; you can just simply go over everything just like that. So, anywhere where you can see a blue sky you want to go over it, maybe even over here on the side of this metal, and, were just giving this picture a totally different look, as you can tell. O.k., so basically that's the way you mask in the sky, and as you can tell, it looks pretty cool, and I'm going to keep it like this, and were going to move on."
eHow Article: Using Layer Masks in Photoshop Tutorial