Photoshop Masking & Quickmasks
This week: Using Quickmask; Masking Techniques and Tools; Alpha Channels, Quickmasks; QuickMask; Basic Color Selections; Lynda on Masks (QuickTime); Using Masks to combine images; Photoshop--Quick Mask; Quick Masking; Master Photoshop's Masking Tools; Selections; Selections and Removing Backgrounds; Quick Mask in Photoshop; Spoono-Photoshop tutorials-Masking; Lycos Help and How To- Adobe Illustrator 8.0; Masks and selections; Spoono (quick masks); Image Blending; 4-Creating Masks and Channels (ttu.edu)
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- Lynda on Masks (QuickTime)
This page lists a few QuickTime movie tutorials. The introduction to masks tutorial was quite helpful--there was a screen capture of Photoshop, and the instructors comments were helpful and easy to follow.
Adjustment Layers (streaming Quicktime Movie)
Basic Path Drawing (streaming Quicktime Movie)
Intro to Masking (streaming Quicktime Movie)
Posted on 6/4/2003 - Using Quickmask
Selecting quick mask tools. The foreground color should be black and the background, white. Painting with black adds to the mask and painting with white takes away from it. The selected image can be pasted to a new layer and a new background can be added. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Masking Techniques and Tools
Tom Arah takes you through techniques in selecting with different tools, quick masks, and tonal masks. Posted on 6/4/2003 - www.dsigning.com - QuickMask
[This link was hijacked by a Google Ad directory. It takes you to a web site with NO CONTENT.]Posted on 6/4/2003 - Basic Color Selections
Under the Magic Wand and Quick Masking section, this tutorial talks about how the magic wand tool works, some of its options and about color tolerance. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Using Masks to combine images
two ways of using masks to combine images. The quick mask deletes or destroys origonal pixels and a layer masks just hides them. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Photoshop--Quick Mask
This website did not really have anything extra special about quick mask. It gave two examples of way to use quick mask mode. One was interesting because it used black and white and then added just a touch of color. It also showed that it might be easier to select around the object and then use inverse. This helped clear up some of the confusion of the background and foreground for me. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Quick Masking
This website has a short tutorial on quick masking. Even though it is really short, it is quite helpful and intersting because first it tells you other ways you can seperate the flower from the dull background and then it tells you the quicker and more efficient way to do the task. It also has other links and tutorials for Photoshop. Deep Space Web Link Broken: Posted on 6/4/2003 - Master Photoshop's Masking Tools
This instructional essay was about masking. Masking comes down to one thing: getting a good transition between what's selected and what isn't. This site discusses techniques that help get good selections quickly and then build selections to composite images together. Selections, alpha channels and masks are all exactly the same thing in photoshop. In this essay they give you picures along with step by step instructions on how to manipulate your image and use these tools sucessfully. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Selections and Removing Backgrounds
I liked this site a lot. It covered a lot of specifics about selections, quick mask, and backgrounds in general. It also allowed you to download a file to practice along with the tutorial, which also helped a lot. It also had a bunch of other tutorials including various painting techniques which also seemed interesting. I think that the detail of the site and the hands on aspect of it provided for a very helpful lesson. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Quick Mask in Photoshop
This tutorial gives step-by-step instruction on using the Quick Mask feature in Photoshop. It is very helpful and appropriate for a beginning Photoshop user because of its illustrated instruction of every phase of Quick Mask. Reading through the tutorial gave me a better understanding of what Quick Mask is and how it is to be used within the program. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Spoono-Photoshop tutorials-Masking
While (Quick) Masking is a topic we've covered a while back, there was a portion of this webpage tutorial that I was not familiar with, but sounded interesting--Clipping Groups. There is a short introduction to Clipping Groups at the bottom of the page which tells about them, how they work, and how they can be used for masking purposes. Posted on 6/4/2003 - Spoono (quick masks)
This tutorial talks about the quick masks, and the different ways to accomplishing it. The site even has a picture to download so you can work on something while you learn. Very helpful, and makes it more clear. It teaches you how to use the feather mask and blend the backgrounds. I enjoyed this site very much. Posted on 9/15/2003 - Image Blending
This website is informative and teaches how to apply gradient layer masks. Basically the site teaches how to blend two images so that it appears as one image that blends in to the other, with one of the layers being on top of course. It mainly reinforces or rather sharpens one's skill with the layer tool to gain a smooth picture that looks as though that is how it was really taken. Very informative, if it was a video in quick time it could have been better. Posted on 9/15/2003 - 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 - Masks and selections
This site is filled with tutorials and techniques ranging from the basic use of channel masks, to using specific tools -ie magnetic lasso, to joining 2 seperate photographs without using any selection masks. It also has alot of well related links, but alot of the page is filled with advertisemnts for things like cell phones. (About.com, turn your cookies off!) Posted on 9/15/2003 - Alpha Channels, Quickmasks
This addresses the purposes of alpha channels and the the channels palette itself and gives a link for exercises for practice on using quick masks and channels. (Very old link, "Miningco" has been "About.com" for several years now.) Posted on 6/4/2003
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