Adobe Photoshop: Every Tool Explained! by Adobe

Author:Adobe [Adobe]
Language: eng
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Published: 2011-02-11T05:00:00+00:00

Chapter 5

Gradient Masks

Use a simple black and white gradient in a

layer mask for creating composite images

One very popular use of the Gradient

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tool is to make one image blend

smoothly into another. Here are two images

that we want to composite, by blending one

Application

gradually into the other.

options

You can apply masks

to adjustment layers as

well as normal image

layers. So we could

have applied the levels

as an adjustment layer

One image is copied into the other by

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dragging its layer from the Layers

using the same

palette over the other’s image window and

gradient trick to mask

releasing the mouse. The sky image is scaled

out its effect on the

roughly to fit using the Free Transform tool.

lower part of

the image.

A layer mask is added to the Sky layer,

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by clicking the New Layer Mask button

at the bottom of the Layers palette. Making

sure the layer mask is selected and not the

layer, we can use a black-to-white linear

Vignettes

gradient to mask out the bottom of the sky

layer, blending the two images together.

Create vignettes using

a Radial gradient as a

layer mask applied to

a Solid Fill Layer.You

can then adjust the

Finally Image > Adjustment > Levels

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colour of the fill to suit

is applied to the Sky layer (not to the

different uses.

mask). In the dialog box that appears, drag up

the black input slider to darken the sky and

making it match better with the image below.

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