Adobe Photoshop 2020: The Complete Guide Bootcamp
Lesson 17 of 118
Quick Mask Mode
Adobe Photoshop 2020: The Complete Guide Bootcamp
Lesson 17 of 118
Quick Mask Mode
Lesson Info
Quick Mask Mode
so I want to show you another way of thinking about your selection in. That is something called quick mask mode. If you look in your tools panel just below your foreground and background colors, which are these two icons is this, and that is quick mask mode. If you hover over it, it should eventually tell you that that it means quick mask. And it should also tell you a keyboard shortcut, which is just typing a letter. Q. Don't type command Q or Control. Q. Because that quits Photoshopped, this is Q. All by itself, you use quick mask mode primarily when you have a selection on your screen and you want to view it differently. It's called Quick Mask. Do you remember when I I kind of mentioned masks? I said, It's a different way of looking at a selection where, instead of seeing it looking like marching ants, you see it looking like usually a black and white picture where white indicates what selected Black indicates what's not, and that's gonna do it for us. But instead of showing is blac...
k and white, it's gonna show it as an overlay. Let me show you. I'm gonna type the letter Q. And watch what happens to this selection. You no longer see the marching ants on the edge and the area that's not selected get covered with red. That made a temporary a mask. A mask just means viewing a selection in a different way. When I showed you the concept of a mask at the beginning of this session, I think I went to the channels panel to show it to you. Well, let's go look there. You don't have to know that this is happening there. But just so you know, if I go to the channels panel Oh, usually it shows it. They changed. It usually would show a channel down there called quick mask mode. Surprise. It doesn't. No, it doesn't. Well, it used to show it here in the channels panel where you could actually see that it is a behind the scenes. It's using something called channels. You know, what's happening is my interface isn't updating. Let me see if I can get it to their e. I just had to resize it. I'm having a screen redraw issue. Um, so anyway, in channels there, this go quick mask, It does the exact same thing I did earlier to get it to show up here. Which means that it went to the select menu it chose save selection and it gave it the name quick mask and it put it there, and it just overlaying this on the main image. But you don't have to know that it's just nice for some of you to know that it relates All right, so quick mask mode. It's a way of viewing a selection where you see it as a red overlay. But what's nice about it is you can use any tool that would work on a grayscale picture any tool that will work on a black and white image that means painting tools, filters, adjustments, anything you can paste a picture in whatever. So let's see how we can use this if I use my paint brush tool. And right now I'm painting with black because my foreground color is black. Over here in this part of my screen, I'm gonna paint just some stripes in here. Diagonal little lines actually get out larger brush. OK, now I'm gonna turn off quick mask mode by typing the letter Q or clicking the quick mask icon that has found near the bottom of my tools pounds when I type of letter. Q. I just modified that selection because when you're in quick mask mode, any area that is covered with red is not selected. And so if I typed letter Q to go back to quick mask mode by painting like I did, uh, I'm in effect changing that selection. And so I'm gonna choose undo a few times because I didn't need to do this. And if you need multiple undoes, you go to the window menu and there's a choice within it called History. It a list. Everything you've done to your picture having a weird screen re dry. She, though there and I can just click on the step that is above the word brush tool. That means go back so as if I never painted. All right, let's zoom up here. And so I could look closely at this edge and see isn't inaccurate anywhere. And if it is inaccurate, I could paint maybe a little bit right there, And if I want to get rid of the red stuff, then I need a paint with white so I'm gonna go down here and I see this is black. If I want to switch these two, this little double arrow would do it for me. And now I'm painting with white, and I might just fine tune that little speck wherever it was inaccurate. I just typed command zero to zoom out to see no controls their own windows. When you're done using quick mass mo just type letter Q. Again, you're back to your selection, So it could be a very nice way of previewing a selection and then modifying it by using a paintbrush.
Class Description
AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:
- Develop an understanding of how Photoshop works
- Create your ideal workspace
- Configure the essential preference settings
- Set up Adobe Bridge and Lightroom for optimal integration with Photoshop
- Navigate multiple images seamlessly
ABOUT BEN’S CLASS:
Adobe® Photoshop® 2020 is a feature-rich creative force, perfect for turning raw ideas into audience-wowing images. With Ben Willmore as your guide, you can master it faster than you think and take on a new decade of projects.
Ben takes you step-by-step through Adobe Photoshop 2020 as only he can. With an easy pace and zero technobabble, he demystifies this powerful program and makes you feel confident enough to create anything. This class is part of a fully-updated bundle – complete with 2020 features and more efficient ways to maximize the tools everyone uses most.
Whether you’re a 20-year designer or you’re opening the app for the first time, this is the perfect way to learn and love using Photoshop. From retouching to masking to troubleshooting, Ben unpacks all the essentials and hidden gems, while giving you real-world examples to drive each lesson home. By the end of the class, you’ll feel eager to make serious magic with Photoshop 2020.
WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:
- Beginner, intermediate, and advanced users of Adobe Photoshop.
- Those who want to gain confidence in Adobe Photoshop and learn new features to help edit photos.
- Students who’d like to take ordinary images and make them look extraordinary with some image editing or Photoshop fixes.
SOFTWARE USED:
Adobe Photoshop 2020 (V21)
Lessons
- Introduction To Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Bridge vs. Lightroom
- Tour of Photoshop Interface
- Overview of Bridge Workspace
- Overview of Lightroom Workspace
- Lightroom Preferences - Saving Documents
- How To Use Camera Raw in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Overview of Basic Adjustment Sliders
- Developing Raw Images
- Editing with the Effects and HLS Tabs
- How to Save Images
- Using the Transform Tool
- Making Selections in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Selection Tools
- Combining Selection Tools
- Using Automated Selection Tools
- Quick Mask Mode
- Select Menu Essentials
- Using Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Align Active Layers
- Creating a New Layer
- Creating a Clipping Mask
- Using Effects on Layers
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Using the Shape Tool
- Create a Layer Mask Using the Selection Tool
- Masking Multiple Images Together
- Using Layer Masks to Remove People
- Using Layer Masks to Replace Sky
- Adding Texture to Images
- Layering to Create Realistic Depth
- Adjustment Layers in Adobe Photoshop 2020
- Optimizing Grayscale with Levels
- Adjusting Levels with a Histogram
- Understanding Curves
- Editing an Image Using Curves
- Editing with Shadows/Highlights Adjustment
- Dodge and Burn Using Quick Mask Mode
- Editing with Blending Modes
- Color Theory
- Curves for Color
- Hue and Saturation Adjustments
- Isolating Colors Using Hue/Saturation Adjustment
- Match Colors Using Numbers
- Adjusting Skin Tones
- Retouching Essentials In Adobe Camera Raw
- Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
- Retouching with the Clone Stamp
- Retouching with the Healing Brush
- Retouching Using Multiple Retouching Tools
- Extending an Edge with Content Aware
- Clone Between Documents
- Crop Tool
- Frame Tool
- Eye Dropper and Color Sampler Tools
- Paint Brush Tools
- History Brush Tool
- Eraser and Gradient Tools
- Brush Flow and Opacity Settings
- Blur and Shape Tools
- Dissolve Mode
- Multiply Mode
- Screen Mode
- Hard Light Mode
- Hue, Saturation, and Color Modes
- Smart Filters
- High Pass Filter
- Blur Filter
- Filter Gallery
- Adaptive Wide Angle Filter
- Combing Filters and Features
- Select and Mask
- Manually Select and Mask
- Creating a Clean Background
- Changing the Background
- Smart Object Overview
- Nested Smart Objects
- Scale and Warp Smart Objects
- Replace Contents
- Raw Smart Objects
- Multiple Instances of a Smart Object
- Creating a Mockup Using Smart Objects
- Panoramas
- HDR
- Focus Stacking
- Time-lapse
- Light Painting Composite
- Remove Moire Patterns
- Remove Similar Objects At Once
- Remove Objects Across an Entire Image
- Replace a Repeating Pattern
- Clone from Multiple Areas Using the Clone Source Panel
- Remove an Object with a Complex Background
- Frequency Separation to Remove Staining and Blemishes
- Warping
- Liquify
- Puppet Warp
- Displacement Map
- Polar Coordinates
- Organize Your Layers
- Layer Styles: Bevel and Emboss
- Layer Style: Knockout Deep
- Blending Options: Blend if
- Blending Options: Colorize Black and White Image
- Layer Comps
- Black-Only Shadows
- Create a Content Aware Fill Action
- Create a Desaturate Edges Action
- Create an Antique Color Action
- Create a Contour Map Action
- Faux Sunset Action
- Photo Credit Action
- Create Sharable Actions
- Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 1
- Common Troubleshooting Issues Part 2
- Image Compatibility with Lightroom
- Scratch Disk Is Full
- Preview Thumbnail
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In this class Ben Willmore gives an overview of all the tools present in Adobe Photoshop 2020, explaining everything very clearly and with practical examples. This course is useful for any type of photographer who wants to learn the use of Photoshop or improve their post production skills.