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New tutorial: Using masks in Photoshop

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Rather basic, but hopefully a few will find it helpful.

http://www.poopinmymouth.com/tutorial/masks.htm

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  • KDR_11k
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    KDR_11k polycounter lvl 18
    The benefit of this is that I can paint on the layer, and it will always stay circular. Normally I would have to reselect the circle area, or erase afterwards to keep the layer as a circle.

    Um, you do know about the lock transparency button, right? You can just select a circle and fill it then select "lock transparency" and the circle stays a circle.

    Of course there's still reason for using masks, the smudging you mentioned and more importantly the easy editing of the transparency.
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  • Slum
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    Slum polycounter lvl 18
    Masks are always your friend. It's very very rare that I'll even use a layer in photoshop without it having a mask.

    I thought I was proficient in photoshop, but I didn't even know about the tilde key showing the masked parts in red. I guess the old saying still holds true: "you learn something new every day".
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  • peanut™
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    peanut™ polycounter lvl 19
    Yes thank you Poop, im reading this right now, mask are an area in PS that i shrug off and disdain by my deep ignorance of the matter.
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  • cholden
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    cholden polycounter lvl 18
    The more of these types of tutors the better. I often forget newer artists are blind to the basic steps we have been using for years. Pull out enough of these, and you'll be ready to publish a book, poop.
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  • Jeff Parrott
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    Jeff Parrott polycounter lvl 19
    Sweet Poop, another few pages for that "Poop In My Mouth's Guide to Game Art" book.
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  • jzero
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    jzero polycounter lvl 18
    Ben rocks! I always tell people that using Photoshop is all about the selection...

    Ben, you should include a note about QuickMask, which lets you switch a regular marquee/live selection into a 'temporary alpha' mode that you can paint on. It would just go along to explain how PS's masking tech has many forms, but they all work pretty much the same.

    /jzero
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  • Joshua Stubbles
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    Joshua Stubbles polycounter lvl 19
    Cool stuff. I never use em, though.
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