Photoshop's Layer Mask for Beginners
Posted: June 02, 2020
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Photoshop is an incredibly powerful tool. Many photographers, of all experience levels, use it for post-processing of their images. Unfortunately, all that power may come with some confusion. There are so many tools that Photoshop offers that they can be overwhelming if you're just starting. Photoshop's "Layer Mask" allows you to stack images and elements on top of each other and end with incredible results - and it's one of the first tools you should master.
Simon Ringsmuth, photographer and contributor to Digital Photography School, shares how to master Photoshop's Layer Mask.
Adobe Photoshop has so many buttons, tools, and options it can seem overwhelming and intimidating to beginner photo editors. Rather than diving into the deep end and trying to learn every possible tool all at once, I recommend a more measured approach. Pick one thing and learn that, and then move on to the next tool or technique. And learning Layer Masks in Photoshop is one of the most important and useful tools for any editor.
In 1994, Photoshop Version 3 introduced a concept that blew the doors off the image editing industry:
layers. This allowed editors to stack multiple image elements on top of each other to form a complete picture. This is all well and good, but what if you put one layer on top of another layer and still want to see something on the layer below?
Read the entire article,
A Beginner’s Guide to Layer Masks in Photoshop, on
Digital Photography School.