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The Art Of Selections & Masking

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Mastering selections and masking will help you take your images to the next level.

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Photoshop’s Marquee Tools
Quick rectangular and elliptical selections.

Photoshop’s Lasso Selection Tools
Go to drawing tools for irregular selections.

Photoshop’s Magic Wand & Quick Selection Tools
Let Photoshop do the work for you.

Two Keys To Combine All Of Photoshop’s Tools
Easily add or subtract from selections.

Viewing Masks
You can see a mask in a number of ways.

Mask Key Commands
Key commands make masking and selections faster and easier.

Painting The Simplest & Most Useful Masks In Photoshop

Photoshop’s Quick Mask Combines All Selection And Brush Tools

Eight Useful Tips For Brushing Masks In Photoshop

How To Make Masking Easier With Photoshop

Gradient Masks

Fine Tuning Gradients
Fine tune your gradients with masking techniques.

Masking Hue

Masking Saturation

Masking Luminosity

Contour Masks

Edge Masks

Combining Masks | Coming Soon

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Make your images stronger by locally adjusting lines.

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Make your images stronger by locally adjusting planes.

Video – Photoshop Masking Key Commands

Video – Photoshop Making 2 Masks For 1 Layer

Video – Photoshop Feathering Selections & Masks

Video – Photoshop Combining Gradient Masks

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Enhancing Local Contrast In Black & White Images

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Color to black and white conversions are radical transformations of an image. They establish the tonal foundations of a neutral image, creating tonal relationships by determining which areas of an image become light and which are dark. While this process can generate some localized effects (all blues become darker or lighter), this is quite different than selectively lightening and darkening an image to accentuate existing tonal relationships (only select blue areas become darker or lighter). Selectively enhance a tonal structure after conversion, rather than before. Selective enhancement may yield dramatic results.
Here are two ways.

The Art of Interpretation – Dodging & Burning

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Last week I taught my most advanced Fine Art Digital Printing Advanced workshop ever. We delved deep into the art of dodging and burning, learning not only how to do it but many interpretive strategies for applying it in different ways to a variety of images.
Soren Lindqvist’s image drawn from the rocky coast of Maine demonstrates just how far you can go with dodging and burning. He turns an image with dark lines on a light ground into one with light lines on a dark ground. It’s a fine example of the art of interpretation. Available light may only be a starting point.
See more of Soren’s work here.

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