Great overview of masks! Thanks for taking the time to put together those videos! Very helpful!

Nice work Mike. Every time I see a professional using Photoshop, I always learn something new. Keep them coming!

Awesome tutorial, I will definitely have a use for this. No matter how much you know about Photoshop there are always new things to learn. Thanks!

Awesome-sauce, Mike! So if I send you the rest of the LandFormer art, do you want to fix it up for me? I kid, I kid…

I do *want* to (I'm just like that when it comes to Photoshop, especially when it comes to games), but I don't have the time right now!

Thanks Mike! I was just saying to myself the other night that I need to figure out how that masking stuff works. I've managed to use it once or twice before, but wasn't really sure if I was doing it “right”. And the adjustment layer stuff I've never used, but I've wanted to do exactly that, so it's good to know that feature exists!

BTW, does the color of the pixels in the mask have any effect on the masking or is it just the transparency?

Great! Glad to have helped. There is another way to do layer masks, I'll be going over that in another screencast. It's a bit different, but this way is more flexible in some ways.

Pixel colour for the base layer has NO effect on the masking. Try painting on a layer and using it as a mask to test it out.

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