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Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
Would this be possible? Id like to have two layers in Photoshop,each with their own color information along with a mask. What id like to know is if there is a way to link the 2 masks. So for instance if i use the smudge tool or paint on the mask on the top layer,the mask on the layer below will also be affected. -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
Fonfa had it, if you want one mask to edit two separate layers, you group them and apply the mask to the group and disable the two masks on the layers. Awesomeness. -
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I don't understand why you want the two masks to be linked together. Can you give a practical example of what you would use this for? I can only assume that you're talking about painting a mask on say the diffuse and specular at the same time? For those sorts of cross-grouping mask links I just copy/paste from one to the… -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
two distinct layers at various points in the document, sharing one mask.. that'd be sweetness. -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
Try using clipping masks? Make the mask a base layer then apply the two colours on top as seperate layers with ctrl alt g -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
I don't know if that's what you want, but you could include those two layers inside a layer group that has its' own mask besides their individual ones. -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
You can put two layers in a folder and then put a mask on the folder. This will mask both layers with the same mask. You can even have masks on the layers in the folder as well. Is that what you're asking about? -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
BTW, Photoshop DOES HAVE a bit of such functionality - instanced Smart layers. For example, you have some smart layer, duplicate it. And now you if change the original smart layer - duplicate will change too. But it's not applicable to Masks - they can't be instanced (( So pity... -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
That's pretty much what i'd need it for, yeah. It gets tedious. -
Re: Is it possible to link two masks together in Photoshop?
Unfortunately Photoshop is a photographers oriented software - and they have rather straightforward workflow - they rarely need to perform such a complex tasks as texture artists usually do. I have doubts that Adobe gonna one day change this run of things - photoshop is an industry standard and real changes in this case…
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