A five-minute tutorial helps you immediately master the basics of masking

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The mask is the tool to control the adjustment

The mask, it sounds like a very professional vocabulary, in fact, it is very simple to understand.

For example, when we minimize the saturation of a picture, the picture becomes black and white.

But we hope that there is still color in the middle of the picture, just the edge of the screen into black and white.

How do you deal with it?

We just need to get our adjustments applied to some of the images on the line.

At this time we need a tool to control which part of the image application adjustment, which part of the image does not apply adjustment, the tool is a mask.

Inside the PS is the use of pure black to not apply the adjustment, pure white to indicate the application of adjustment, gray representation of the application of the adjustment.

So when our masks are in the picture, the effect is this:

　The role of The mask

First, local adjustment

Through the mask, we can achieve very fine local adjustment, so that the picture shows a richer picture effect.

For example, in this photo, we use masks to allow saturation adjustments to be applied only to local, and to achieve more special effects.

Second, the synthesis

When synthesizing, we often use masks to adjust edges.

For example, we synthesize a chameleon and a big beak bird:

In the example above we are applying masks to adjust, this picture is applied to the image mask, in fact, the essence is the same.

Apply masks to adjustments that control which part of the image is applied to the adjustment.

Applying masks to pictures is the control of which part of the image appears.

The edges may be stiff when we pull the map, so we need to use the mask to adjust the edges.

　　Third, the manufacture of special effects

For example, we use masks to allow two images to be fused to create a more cool visual effect.

Classification:

• PS Getting Started Tutorial
• PS Mask Tutorial