Photoshop Masks, & Channels
This week we are working with Photoshop masking -- several good ones here ...
Sharpening Fuzzy Photographs by George Imrie, Photoshop 7: Masks and Channels, Tips: Combining Images III, Creating Masks; Masks are Easy; Understanding Channels; Understanding Masking (PDF) and others
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- Photoshop 7: Masks and Channels
This site starts off by explaining the exact function of masks and channels. It explains how masks can be used to select an image perfrectly and channels contain specific color information. It the goes on to tell how you would go about setting up a quick mask or an Alpha channel. The end.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Photoshop Tips: Combining Images III
The website entitled "Combining Images III" is one of more twenty-eight online tutorials maintained by Jay Arraich. Each hyperlink is devoted to a different function of Adobe Photoshop 7. This link in particular has an especially fun tutorial of one way masking can be used effectively in photoshop. By using the masking tool, and various other tools, the site demonstrates how to combine a picture of a jar on a shelf and a Barbie doll. Most intermediate Photoshop users would have no trouble with this task, but most would not know how to make it appear as if the doll was in the bottle. The website provides detailed instructions and diagrams to show how the desired effect is created.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - 4-Creating Masks and Channels (ttu.edu)
This website actually breaks down how one can use masks, how masks are apart of channels, and what masks can do for anyone wanting to learn how to use this technique. The mask is can be available in a quick mask under the channel selection. A mask can allow you to protect your selection in a layer because you can create the area in which your selection can be manipulated unlike using a selection tool such as the lasso tool that can selection something. A selection tool can become deselected very easily, making it difficult for the user to have freedom in creating art.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Production Graphics: Masks are Easy
This site is about how to use masks. It gives simple, how-to exampes of how to add masks and what the effects will be when they are used. It also explains some of the confusion that comes along with using masks and how to avoid problems people commonly have while using them. [Web Reference dot com]
Posted on 2/9/2004 - 4-Creating Masks and Channels
Masks make it possible to work on part of the image without losing the selection. When editing a mask, make white the foreground color. This way you erease the red areas addiding to the selected area. don't forget to check the origional image to make sure everything is correct. Masks are edited in the channels menu. Channels can be used and reused as well as edited and redited. Exactracting is another way to isolate an image. It is best for hard areas such as grass adn hair. Us ethe move tool to drag the extraction to a new layer for further work. Save!
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Mike's Sketchpad - Understaind Channels
This tutorial on understanding channels focuses more on the background skills necessary to effectively create masks. I especially appreciated the clarification about the different RGB channels and how they relate to what you produce in the editing of the image. It also defines the difference between RGB pixel depth and CMYK. The second half of this tutorial parallels our last class however. Over all, Mike's Sketchpad continues to be a useful site.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Photoshop 7 - Masks & Channels
A mask can be used to seperate an image from its surroundings and protect areas while editing others. A quick mask is a temporary mask. Once selected, the image you are editing becomes red and the surroundings become black. You can touch up the image or the background by applying the brush tool. Channels are unlike layers in that they do not print. Instead of containing painting and effects, they contain an image's color and selection information. When editing the channel, the image shows up in black and white. If there is any gray, it should be painted out.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Photoshop Corner #06
this site is about digital photograph enhancement, Being a photographer myself, there have been times where I am greatly dissatisfied with the results from scans or a digital camera. this site contains tutorials on using masks and assorted other photoshop tools and tricks to get the best quality from your images. This site is maintained through a forums system that creates mroe than just a static learning experience.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Creating Masks and Channels
This site explains the different steps in creating, editing, and saving masks. It also goes over things like filtering and extracting, and gives you tips if you run into things like an unclear interior within the image.
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Photoshop Tutorial Sites
This site is composed of tips, tutorials, and links all about Photoshop. The tutorials are all inclusive and narrow down to being very specific. The tips that are posted by users and they give incite to short cuts and techniques. They have links to other sites and places to buy Photoshop books.
NOTE: This is NOT a 'masks' specific link, but rather a portal page of tutorials at Photo Foolery dot com
Posted on 2/9/2004 - Understanding Masking (PDF)
When working in Photoshop, there are many advantages, one of which is working with masks. When an artist works in masks he or she has the flexibility of reviewing and editing his or her work at any time. He or she can also have multiple masks to work on and ultimately one is chosen for the final project. On this site, I learned that the masks are created by using a "temporary mask (red)" which resides over your actual image and by using a paintbrush tool, an artist paints over the selection that he or she wants to become the mask. The process is similar to a rubylith overlay, which was the initial method of making masks before Photoshop. With the rubylith effect, the entirety of an artist's work becomes shades of red, and whatever you paint, will reveal the actual color of your work, thus you have the idea of a mask.
Posted on 2/9/2004
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