The most difficult objects to mask are those with soft, undefined edges. This is a common issue in photos snapped using a wide aperture (or too close to the object), resulting in an increasingly soft ...

For versions Photoshop cc 2015.5 and later, I’ll show you how to use the new Select and Mask Taskspace. This feature creates ...

Are you bored with images that have plain, straight edges? John Pearson shows Photoshop users how to create interesting effects of their own using Layer Masks. The method provides control so that the ...

In graphic art and design, a mask is a tool that lets you isolate part of an image from the area surrounding it. Once isolated, you can apply adjustments (for example, special effects or color balance ...

Image the white mask you have added is like a sheet of glass covered with white paint that has been combined with the black & white picture. You can now use the erase tool to remove the paint and ...

Many moons ago, photo editing was accomplished with razor blades and steady hands. In a major update to Adobe Photoshop today, slicing up a photo will soon be as easy as browsing the web, because like ...

Early portrait photographers often vignetted photographs by cutting them out in rounded shapes or masking the photographic paper while an image printed, restricting the result to an ellipse. Because a ...