Masking Mystique of Deke
Becoming Proficient At Photoshop's Masking and Channels
Color Range – At Home With The Range
Nov 27th
One of Deke’s Assignments for Chapter 4 of Photoshop Channels and Masks is to take these big rough stone statues, found on Easter Island and separate them from their light background, placing them into a dark omenous sky background.
We’ve used various selection tools before and we might be tempted at first to use the quick selection tool, but even better than that we have Color Range. We run into a problem with our selection and Deke explains that it isn’t because Color Range didn’t do its job. Read the rest of this entry »
Quick Mask Mode
Nov 26th
Well, we’ve used our favorite selection tool and made a reasonably good selection. We’re going to drop our selection into another photo; we even have several choices of photos. Is our selection good enough? We put our talents to the test by hitting “q” on our keyboard – we are now in quick mask mode. This selection is a temporary selection. It exhibits our selection opaque, but our background is in color and protected. Quick Mask is merely a tool to see how well our selection is coming along. If our selection is reasonably good, we can and should first save this selection and then refine it. To save it, go to the Menu > Select >Save Selection.
Want to learn more about Quick Mask? Head over to my “Notes” page, for some suggested videos on this subject.
Egged On By Faberge
Nov 16th
Use of the Warp Tool and its effect on our selections Read the rest of this entry »
Selections 3C – Law & Order Gag
Nov 11th
Time Traveling Tony 5 Fingers Captured
Our assignment for the week was to use a picture of ourselves or a friend and put them in a Law & Order type poster or situation.
I thought it might be funny to use a picture of a friend that was snapped in front of cannon (yes, the picture was of poor quality) so, I put him in with an old 30′s picture of the St. Valentine’s Massacre. Since Tony still has all his fingers, I called him Tony 5 Fingers and he is being caught at the scene.
More Selections [Lesson 3b]
Nov 2nd
Our coach, Deke McClelland served us up a tray of food for a planned project. Unlike any father figure I’ve ever personally known, Deke actually wants us to play with our food in this lesson. Fortunately, the tray is well organized and has 6 compartments each containing one item for us to select with our Photoshop tools. Read the rest of this entry »
Selections [Chapter 3]
Oct 25th
Selections: [Lesson 3] From now on our group of soon to be ACE Photoshop Devotees, will be getting into the nitty gritty of selections, and refining those selections that we make in Photoshop. There is no one tool that can do it all and for that reason we have to strive to be adept at Photoshop’s entire arsenal of selection tools. Read the rest of this entry »
Masks [Chapter 2]
Oct 19th
Masks [Chapter 2] are selections and we can store them within what is known as an alpha channel. Deke McClelland explained that an
“Alpha Channel is the house and the mask is the thing that lives inside it”
The alpha channel itself holds the masks which can fully protect, partially protect and even give gradual degrees of shielding from filters and changes in translucency. Read the rest of this entry »
Channels: What are Channels?
Oct 12th
Photoshop’s Channels are actually separate displays of an image’s luminosity. Luminosity itself means the strength of a color inside the image. If we were in the color mode of RGB, we would see separate channels of Red, Green and Blue. Each presenting that color’s image strength, but doing so within a grayscale image. Read the rest of this entry »
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