you can use a combination of blend if grey and blend if grey underlying layer and then nested layer masks for this sort of effect in photoshop. remember you can group a single layer and then layer mask is repeatedly so it's easy to control separate parts of the total mask - ie a gradient, a procedural noise/clouds filter,…
I've set up a generic pattern masked upon a cylinder. What i want to do is "extract" the masked out area "bevel" the edges at the same time. Is this possible?
Hey guys I'm doing another art test and they are asking for a 768x768 diffuse with a "specular mask in alpha channel". What exactly are they asking? I've never heard of that before.