How to Use Masks in Photoshop Information

How to Use Masks in Photoshop by Jeremy Shuback is a course designed to elevate your skills in using masks, one of the most powerful tools in Photoshop, in under two hours.

Masks are the key to great selection in Photoshop. Go from a beginner to an expert in less than two hours.

What You’ll Learn In How to Use Masks in Photoshop?

1. Intro
   • Masks: The Most Powerful tool in Photoshop
2. The Fundamentals
   • Why Masks are Important and how 99% of People Use Photoshop Wrong
   • What is a Mask? And the Basics of Using Them
   • The Mask Keyboard Shortcuts worth memorizing
3. Basic Composites
   • How to Make a Simple Photo Collage
   • How to turn an Image into a Stencil
   • Creating Selections that are only possible with Masks
   • How to Stack Masked Layers to Get Finer Control
   • How to Nest Masks
4. Selecting Hair
   • Perfect Hair Selection with Channels
   • Mask Stacking: Using Multiple Layers for One Selection
   • How to blur the edges of parts of a mask without blurring all of it
   • How to use Color Range to drop out parts of the background from your mask
   • One simple trick to make hair pop out slightly more
   • Combining the Hair Techniques
   • Fixing Color Spill
   • How to Select Hair on a Perfectly Shot Photograph
   • Selecting Hair in the Real World
5. What Next?
   • Bye Bye
6. Bonus: Masking out a hard image in real time
   • Intro Warning: Good selections take time
   • The initial rough selection
   • Selecting the Hair
   • Selecting the hand and glasses
   • Tweaking the hair and edges
   • Fixing the glass part of the glasses
   • Finding and fixing remaining trouble areas
   • Separating the shadow
   • Remaining edges and color spill

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