Comments on: Quick Tip – Use Layer Masks to Erase in Photoshop

By: Matt

Matt — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 15:17:32 +0000

I have a job where we grab images out of pdfs to use in our system. I hate when there is an object, such as a tire, when I pull it out of the pdf all the junk in the background wasn’t erased…just masked. Now I have to erase again myself….like that trash can in the background would ever be needed in the image.

By: Mandar

Mandar — Mon, 16 Jul 2012 14:37:51 +0000

Hi,
Thanks for tip, I m new at Photoshop
I was wondering while creating “Levitation” or “Cloning” photography, I use Layer mask, but I still can not make it perfect ,one layers are added,and masked, I m supposed to use Brush to clear the platform underneath me, at this particular step ,I think can we use magic wand tool instead of brush , cause , sometime , brush create mess and final picture does not look good.
I know, most of the pro use brush and do suggest same, bt I cud nt use it.
Am I making things too complicated when they don’t need to be?

Please advise

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By: Silver Knight

Silver Knight — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:39:59 +0000

@Les
A few links which helped me during my learning of GIMP and similar tools:
http://www.gimp.org/tutorials/ – The official GIMP tutorials page
http://gimp-savvy.com/ – A book about GIMP which you can read free on the web
http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/GIMP – A work-in-progress WikiBook about GIMP
http://gimpguru.org/ – Some fancy photo manipulation tutorials can be found here

@Heather Flyte
I agree about layer masks being utterly useful. I use them extensively in GIMP and they are just as useful in GIMP as they are in Photoshop. Same as you, I’ve found that “all the layer options” once used are *very* hard to live without. :)

@Zach Dunn
Thanks for this useful post. Always nice to have bookmarks like this handy to point folk at when they ask how to do these sort of things. ;)

@Those who might want to do this same sort of thing in GIMP, it’s an almost identical process:

1) Select the area you want to make transparent or mask out using the “Fuzzy Select” (GIMP) or “Magic Wand” (Photoshop) tool, as the article above states.
2) Press Ctrl-I to invert the selection (again, just as in the article above).
3) In the GIMP menus, select “Layer > Mask > Add Layer Mask”
4) Choose “Selection” in the dialog window which pops up to create a mask that works exactly like the one in the article.

Also useful in GIMP for this type of task is the “Quick Mask” tool (Shift-Q) which allows you to fine tune the selection using the painting tools. I’m sure that an identical feature exists in Photoshop as well.

By: Silver Knight

Silver Knight — Thu, 09 Dec 2010 10:35:21 +0000

@Zach Dunn
Thanks for this useful post. Always nice to have bookmarks like this handy to point folk at when they ask how to do these sort of things. ;)

@Those who might want to do this same sort of thing in GIMP, it’s an almost identical process:

1) Select the area you want to make transparent or mask out using the “Fuzzy Select” (GIMP) or “Magic Wand” (Photoshop) tool, as the article above states.
2) Press Ctrl-I to invert the selection (again, just as in the article above).
3) In the GIMP menus, select “Layer > Mask > Add Layer Mask”
4) Select “Selection” in the dialog window that pops up to create a mask which works exactly like the one in the article.

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By: EL CODIGO DE BARRAS

EL CODIGO DE BARRAS — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:10:22 +0000

One day someone said, in design world “Keep it, simple…”and this is a perfect example about this quote…Thanks guys !

By: Todd

Todd — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 19:57:32 +0000

I wish I found this article when I started using Pshop.

A great way to fine-tune the mask is to select the “Channels” tab next to “Layers” and make the mask channel visible. The semi-transparent pink color is the mask (hidden). From here you can use white paint to reveal the image. Also, try using white text to display the image through that text on that channel.

Don’t forget to hide the mask on the “Channel” tab when you’re done editing.

By: Les

Les — Mon, 05 Jul 2010 19:25:35 +0000

I don’t have Photoshop – I usually use Paint Shop Pro, more recently I installed GIMP which is more like Photoshop but open source (as in free) so does anyone else use GIMP and where can I find some decent tutorials to use it?

For example, as with this article, to remove backgrounds as I use earse in PSP and the results are honking (!) most of the time.

Thanks.