Antti Karppinen – Photoshop: Select and mask

Making good and precise selections and masking elements are one of the most important and hardest techniques in photoshop. This is where a lot of people struggle and always doesn’t get the results they would like.

Welcome to the world of masking along with internationally awarded retoucher / digital artist Antti Karppinen

Making selections and masking is definitely one of the most important techniques when retouching images. Usually simple elements are easy to separate from the background but what about transparencies, hair, fur and other fine details. These are the places where the problems usually starts and you don’t get the results you need.

In this workshop we will go through all the needed techniques that will help you cut out pretty much any element from the background so you are able to replace that.

With these techniques your retouching process will be faster and you will save time and your nerves and your images will look much more polished.

You will learn:

• All the basic tools to make selections
• How to use and mask Adjustment -layers
• How to make color or contrast based selections
• How to use Select and mask -tool
• How to mask hair, fur and other transparencies
• Powerful tool Blend IF
• And various PRO TIPS from a working pro

What You’ll Learn In Photoshop: Select and mask

Introduction

• What are selections and masking and how to use them.

Basic tools

• How to make selections
• Different tools for making selections
• Modifying selections

Masking adjustment -layers

• How to edit only a part of the image by using adjustment layers

Color and contrast based tools for making selections

• Magic Wand
• Quick Selection Tool
• Select Subject
• Color Range

Select and Mask -tool

Hair and other transparencies

• How to mask hair and other transparencies
• Select and Mask -tool
• How to get rid of fringing
• Masking with Channels

Blend If

• Powerful tool Blend If

PRO TIPS

• Masking glass
• Shifting the mask edge
• Blending modes
• Isolating shadows
• Luminosity masks

About Author

Antti is internationally awarded Digital artist / commercial photographer / educator from Finland. He belongs to a new generation of image artisans, to whom all things are possible.

Main merits include World Photographic Cup (WPC) gold medal in illustrative category and FEP Golden camera also from illustrative category. He has been touring with his workshops all over Europe and his images and tutorials has been published in various blogs and magazines.

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