Are You Really Still Masking in Photoshop?
I’m a big fan of masking in Photoshop. But before you mask, you’ll save yourself a lot of time and potential frustration if you first entertain a simple idea: Blending. Multiply, Screen, and Fill Opacity eagerly await you!
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[CHAPTERS]
00:00 Join Me as We Unmask the Mask
00:59 The Temptation Is to Mask
01:30 Select, Subject
03:38 Magic Wand + Select, Similar
04:54 Working with Blend Modes
05:22 Dropping Out Luminance Levels
07:52 Blending Line Art
08:20 Blend Mode Keyboard Shortcuts
09:33 Making Hand-Drawn Letters Glow
11:01 Loading an Image as Its Own Mask
12:20 Filling Hand-Drawn Letters with White
13:32 Kerning Hand-Drawn Letters
14:21 Opacity versus Fill Opacity
16:13 Relegating Line Art to an Independent Layer
18:38 Thank You So Much for Watching
