Absolute Beginner's Guide to Digital Photography

A Pen tool lets you draw editable selection boundaries. The Pen tool creates a series of automatically connected lines (a path) ...

CHAPTER 16 THE IMPORTANCE OF LAYERS AND MASKS 249 Other Uses for Paths Paths have other uses. Although making selections is the ...

250 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 16.13 Creating your first anchor point. To create a curved line that ...

CHAPTER 16 THE IMPORTANCE OF LAYERS AND MASKS 251 Without releasing the mouse button, con- tinue dragging. Notice that a curve ...

Layer Masks: Attaching a Mask to a Layer A layer mask is a mask attached to a layer. Layer masks are useful because each mask on ...

the Layers palette, its mask becomes visible in the Channels palette. When you paint on the mask, the paint masks the adjustment ...

254 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY The Absolute Minimum Layers enable you to protect parts of an image that do ...

17 In this chapter Understanding Channels Keeping Track of Layers, Channels, and Masks Using Masks to Create Selections Alpha C ...

With Photoshop, you have the capability to view and edit channels; however, in Photoshop Elements, you can save only selections; ...

Open Photoshop (any version) and open a color image. Save the image with a new name to preserve the original. If the image is n ...

258 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 17.2 Masks cover an image except for those areas that are cut out. Ma ...

CHAPTER 17 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHANNELS 259 Seeing Through a Mask A mask can be easier to use than an ordinary selection because o ...

Removing an Object from an Image and Pasting into Another Image How would you remove an object from one image and paste it into ...

CHAPTER 17 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHANNELS 261 Use the paintbrush at varying sizes to mask over the subject to be inserted. Press Ct ...

Using a Mask Created from an Image to Create Special Effects in Another Image Follow these steps to merge two images and create ...

CHAPTER 17 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHANNELS 263 FIGURE 17.9 A ghostly armada over the Greenland landscape. Alpha Channels: Where Masks ...

264 ABSOLUTE BEGINNER’S GUIDE TODIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY FIGURE 17.10 Different types of alpha chan- nels: color, adjustment layer, a ...

CHAPTER 17 THE IMPORTANCE OF CHANNELS 265 drag the alpha channels to the trash can in the Channels palette. Don’t discard them i ...

■ Is an invisible layer selected, such as a text layer? Are you trying to edit the wrong layer? Only the active layer can be edi ...

Digital Output PARTIV Printers and Printer Resolution........... .269 Preserving Your Images................. .285 Color Theory. ...