COMPLETE Beginners Guide to Layer Masks in Photoshop (VIDEO)

Earlier this week we featured a simple five-minute repair for poorly uncovered photographs utilizing Layer Masks in Lightroom. However that easy job offered only a style of what these highly effective instruments can do.

So in response to a pair requests from our readers, we’re taking a deeper dive right this moment, with the entire newbies information beneath that can allow inexperienced customers to unlock the facility of layer masks in Photoshop for all kinds of functions.

Instructor Unmesh Dinda is a globally acclaimed image-editing specialist with 4.5 million subscribers to his YouTube channel. On this detailed episode he describes how layer Masks work, when and the way to use them, and offers real-world examples of nearly every little thing they’ll do to improve your photographs.

Dinda begins with an uncommon analogy evaluating Photoshop Layer Masks to facial masks worn as a part of a dressing up. Simply because the latter are employed to cover the wearer’s id, “the one function of an image-editing layer masks is to cover the layer. That’s it.”

To make clear this curious comparability Dinda pulls up a photograph of a phenomenal ballerina in movement, with some textual content that he need to transfer from in entrance of the topic to behind her. It is a very fundamental instance, and he demonstrates how simple it’s to obtain with a easy masking approach.

After all there are much more sensible makes use of of Layers Masks for photographs shot indoors and out, and Dinda offers clear examples whereas explaining how to get the job executed. He additionally discusses a number of benefits of those highly effective instruments, together with their “non-destructive” talents and compatibility with non-rasterized layers.

You’ll additionally learn the way to flip these Masks on and off, how to hyperlink and unlink a number of Masks, simply create duplicate Masks, and a method he calls “double masking.” He additionally evaluations a number of potential pitfalls like potential issues when copying Masks,

This complete demonstration runs virtually half-hour and Dinda covers numerous floor in a rush. So make sure to have pen and paper by your facet to you possibly can take a number of notes for future reference.

This specific lesson is Half 4 of Dinda’s fashionable “Photoshop for Beginners” sequence, and you could find earlier episodes on his YouTube channel the place there are a number of different suggestions and methods for modifying your work.

And don’t overlook to watch to watch the tutorial talked about above, with a five-minute repair for poorly-exposed photographs utilizing Layer Masks in Lightroom.