Thursday, March 31, 2011

D1 Using layer mask. Guillermo

this time im going to show you one of the many things you can do with layer masks and that is using the layer to erase.

Im using this image and im adding the layer mask to this layer.



now im gonna add the layer mask but first make sure you have the layers pallette.


down at the bottom of the layers pallette there are some options


click on "add vector mask"


now you layer should have this next to it.


make sure the white rectangle is selected and then use the brush tool to remove what you dont need. when using this make sure you are using black not white, since black works as an eraser and white to reveal portions of the picture.


this is what it looks like at the end, the original image its still intact.



thanks for you time!

1 comment:

Aaron said...

I'm not understanding why the eraser tool wasn't just used. I guess I am not seeing a benefit to this method.