ILL300 Digital Illustration

Notes for Second Class

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Why masks?

use adjustment layers and mask techniques to achieve non-destructive edits in your Photoshop project

You can use masks to hide portions of a layer and reveal portions of the layers below. You can create two types of masks:

Layer masks are resolution-dependent bitmap images that are edited with the painting or selection tools.

Vector masks are resolution independent and are created with a pen or shape tool.

Layer and vector masks are nondestructive, which means you can go back and re‑edit the masks later without losing the pixels they hide.

In the Layers panel, both the layer and vector masks appear as an additional thumbnail to the right of the layer thumbnail. For the layer mask, this thumbnail represents the grayscale channel that is created when you add the layer mask. The vector mask thumbnail represents a path that clips out the contents of the layer.

Non Destructive layer mask

Option click on mask shows the mask

X key changes 

•quick select tool 

•Refine edge after selecting using selection tools like quick select and lasso…

•Adjust edge and such using lasso with option( gives you selection choice.

Refine Radius

•Watch sections 10 - 13 of Lynda photoshop demo.

•in adjustment layer, white is the area being adjusted, black is mask.

•Using selections to change colors

•hard edge selection boot

•soft edge selection dog

• brush tool selection…using the brush tool in an adjustment layer to add or subract from layer mask.

• Gradient layer mask ( two layers, click add layer mask on top layer, then choose gradient tool which will allow the white areas in the to show the upper layer on top of the lower layer

• Painting with opacity 100 percent vs transparent

•••Scanning images, ink and pencil dpi, raster, prepping art for color for comics or painting.

digital painting demo? 

Auto Align Layers

C key is crop tool

X key changes color in color palette foreground to background.

Black Layer mask means area is hidden. White means area is exposed

Making selections with color Range.