Leveraging the Power of Masking

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

Hello,

I produced some tutorials last fall for a workshop I presented at AIC2012. These tutorials cover the basics to the advanced methods of creating and refining masks in Photoshop to selectively enhance your images.

I thought this would be a fitting place to share this 8 chapter series for my good friends here at ICEinSpace. For those who are interesting in learning about or expanding your masking skills I promise that these masking methods will benefit your image processing for years to come.

As always I freely share what I learn in the hopes that there will be some who benifit and enjoy this hobby even more.

http://www.imagingdeepsky.com/Tutorials/Masks/Masks.htm

Of course I make no claim that these are the best methods, but only some of the ones that help me.

Kindest Regards,

[Joshua Bunn (Joshua)]

Hi Ken,

Thankyou for your generosity with sharing these. I will certainly make use of them.

Josh

[allan gould]

Ken
Many thanks from me and the amateur community for your sharing of expertise. It's really appreciated.
Allan

[DJT (David)]

Thanks very much for sharing Ken. Much appreciated

[stardust steve (Steve)]

Thanks Ken

[RobF (Rob)]

Most appreciated Ken - looking forward to digesting.

[Regulus (Trevor)]

Thanks for these Ken. I haven't looked yet but I will and am grateful to u for sharing them.

Trevor

[jsmoraes (Jorge)]

Thank you, Crawford. I already read and learned with yours tutorials. Yours experiences and light way of explanation is plenty of value and richness.

[alpal]

Thanks Ken,
I watched all 8 parts of this new series.
There were a few new tricks there for me.

I tend to process slightly differently by saving many versions on my hard disk.
I then grab an older version & blend it with a later one by changing the opacity & using blurred masks to feature the selected areas.
This allows me to over-do an area & back it off by blending &
saves having to be so precise about settings.

cheers
Allan

[rustigsmed (Russell)]

Thanks very much Ken, will definitely check them out.

I think one would be hard-pressed to find another hobby where people freely give so much back to the community eg, software, advice, sharing of information, and tutorials.

Great work!

Rusty

[multiweb (Marc)]

Great tuts. Very concise explanations on how to manage and refine masks.

[astronobob (Bob)]

Appreciate this Mr Ken Crawford Have glimpse the 1st tute and must find time to absorb and follow others sooner than later !
Good clarity and explanations, which is hard to come by, so very very usefu to say the least l
Thanx very much for your time & effort here ! !

[Exfso (Peter)]

Thanks Ken, I must admit that masking at times does my head in, hopefully these will shed some light, no pun intended...

[gregbradley]

You're a good man Ken. Thank for that.

Greg.

[Ken Crawford (KenC)]

I am happy to hear there is some interest - Photoshop is a professional compositing program and it's power is in utilizing layers and masks.

[Ross G]

Great work.

Thank you Ken.

Ross.