The Answer to All Your Problems: Masking – Basix
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 9 Minutes
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
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Photoshop Basix, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak includes 25 short video tutorials, around 5 – 10 minutes in length that will teach you all the fundamentals of working with Photoshop. Today’s tutorial, Part 12: The Answer to All Your Problems: Masking will explain how to save selections as layer masks and refine them using the brush tool. Let’s get started!
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Your Educational material is just awesome…i loved it
The mos awesome Photoshop Tutorial!
Another great Tut., looking forward to the next one.
Thank you! A great tutorial on a subject I’ve been meaning to learn. You have a great straightforward teaching style that is easy to understand.
That is one of the most effective masking tutorials that I’ve come across that really clearly explained how masking works. Thanks a lot for that!
gr8 tutorial…. big thanx…
its one of the most wanted technique/////……… thanx alot…..
Simply amazing!
Great tutorial as always.
I’m really enjoying the Basix series.
Great tut! Good job on keeping the tutorial easy but useful! Keep it up!
Really well-done tutorial!
Awsome, love these tutorials, looking foraward to the next one.
I wonder, will you address vector masks along with clipping masks in the next video? Masks are powerful alone, but you reach a whole new level when you use raster, vector & clipping masks in unison.
Fine work! I have been working with photoshop for some time now. I didn’t take any classes, I’m just learning it by trying things out and these tutorials give me a great basis on which I can build further. Great work. Thanks a lot!
hahaha this is excellent once again!
Simple, easy to follow .
Keep up the great tutorials.
Excellent tutorial, so clearly expained and shown
Thankyou
it is amazing and excellent!
thankyou
These are very nice tutorials man. I’m using Photoshop like 3 years, and I’m still learning from you! Keep it up :)
After 3 years of photoshop, you should really know this mate :P
hi martin,
nice one – i wonder why to use to layer masks in one layer?
cheers
cvg
The most essential tool in the Photoshop toolbox, imho. Don’t know how many times I’ve tried and failed to share the concept of non-destructive masking with colleagues and friends, every time overwhelming them in a cloud of confusion. Your teaching technique is so clear and concise, Martin, that from now on I’ll just be able to point folks to this tut and save myself the aggravation!
One minor criticism: your intro suggests that you’ll show ways to refine the mask, and you do hint at some of the potential to paint, and you do actually use move, invert and transform, but it goes much much further than that. I assume you’ll delve into it a little deeper as your excellent series continues. Baby steps, huh?
Cheers Tom, I’m really happy you found it useful and yes, I will talk about refinements in the following tutorials :)
Great Tutorial!
Thank you Martin
Nicely done. Simple and easy to understand.
you’re awesome. keep it up!
Dear Martin,
thank you for helping out legions of art loving people who always wanted to learn to make beautiful things and were capable of it, yet because of the jump technology has taken in the recent past has made it difficult for people to realize their dreams, you kind sir are doing what in my humble opinion is god’s work and giving them and outlet and a way to put their dreams into tangible things that they can see and get pleasure from.
So I thank you once again for the selfless effort you are putting into it, we on our part will do all we can to spread the word about what a great resource you have created which is at the same time lucid, practical, simple,efficient and separates what is important from what is just frills, so that one may learn to use PSD the right way and then build on the foundation that you are helping create.
Thanking you in anticipation for the completion of this series and god speed.
Cheers
Alfred
PS – I know I may sound ungrateful but is it possible to increase the speed at which the lessons are published so that people with short attention span are not left with a sense of despair – as we like to sit in a session and see all the videos that are there …….and not break the continuity …………as I saw all your videos in a span of 12 hours ………thnks
I have been using layer masks for a while and thought I had gotten the basic gist of it but your video showed that there is so much more to it! Thank you so much for your tutorial, I look forward to more!
Like the poster before me I thought I pretty much knew everything to know about layer masks! Wish Adobe got someone like you to write a manual for the rest of us so I didn’t waste so much time :S
I’m so glad to read these amazing positive comments and to see everyone find my tutorials useful. I’m really grateful for your feedback guys and I hope you will also find the next episodes helpful.
Martin; Link for episode 13 is broken/not working : (
Loving the tutorials and the ease of which I they are delivered.
Ty
It’s because it hasn’t been published yet ;-). It will be up tomorrow morning (Wednesday EST)
Dude, you’re doing a great job with theese. They are very helpful, thanks.
Thanks Martin for all those useful tutorials .
I love you man !
Thanks a lot. You are a real teacher that knows how to explain the foreground concepts behind nondestructive manipulation of images like black&white concept etc. That’s what I call a serious
teaching. It’s the wisest tutorial I’ve seen.
:)
I have been working through the adobe Photoshop “Classroom in a book” and finding it powerful but extremely tedious. Martins tutorials are like splashing your face in a cool, crystal clear mountain stream (ie. invigorating).
Thanks a lot mate!
Thank a lot usefull. Important for biginners……
really great yaar..
thanks fo this tuts, we need more like that
I am french, and i like your english :D
Nice tuts, thx :D
Really useful, thanks
How to do masking in photoshop CS3?
I love your tutorials. Keep it coming. :)
Martin, thank you for your great tuts!
I’m an absolut beginner in Photoshop and I’ve learned a lot from these lessons. In this tut however, there’s something that I can’t figure out:
When you’ve created an adjustmentlayer, you ad a stroke, which is white.
When I try to do so, I get a thin black line instead of a white stroke. My settings are yust like yours in your window, so what am I doing wrong?
Explained very well and two examples ! — fantastic sharing. No end to learning. You have a great style for teaching.
I use CS5 extended suite, LR3 etc Mac 2 quad core processors 32 gb ram….sweet .
Thank you.
Once again, thank you Martin! I love the second example. I plan on taking a photograph of a window and then putting views of different scenes in the same window. Thank you for all the tutorials and for leaving them on site so I can go back and watch again when I forget how to do something!
THANKS…VERY NICE MASKING STYLE