Photoshop: Layer Mask

Video Transcript

"Now what we're going to do is we're going to add a layer mask to this, so we can actually blend the two faces together a little bit better. So if we look at this here, we can see that we have Natalie's face over the top vision of her here, and what we're going to do is we're going to just zoom in a little bit, holding down our command space bar, and zooming in, and I want to fade this edge of her face right into the hair. So, to do this I'm going to add a layer mask, and to add a layer mask what we're going to do, you come down here into the square and the circle, and this mask will pop out now. Make sure your mask is selected, because you can select the face. Well right now, the face is selected. Let's hit enter to get out of the edit mode; there we go, and click on it here. Now, as you can see it puts this little border right here around it, and a border around there. So, we want on paint on a mask, and what we're going to paint on our mask with is we're going to hit B for our brush tool, and hit D to make sure we get our white and black, and then hit X to switch between the white and the black, and we're going to paint with black. What black is going to do is it's going to edit out everything on this photo if it will paint; oh it's in color burn, that's why. So let's take this back to normal; there we go. There we go; that's what we're looking for, to paint that here. I'm going to take out a little bit. I don't want to take out too much. I want to leave her eyebrow shape there, and to see this a little bit better, what we can do is we can take our opacity, and bring it down just a little bit, so we know exactly where we're painting, and where we're fading into. I'm going to go ahead, and hit shift and beginning square space bar key to actually give this a little bit of a fade effect. There we go. Now if we bring our opacity right back up, we can see that we've lined this up really well, and it's starting to match up here in the hairline. And we're going to do the same thing over here, and we'll do that in the next section."