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Quick Tip #9 Masking In Photoshop

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In this quick tip we explore how to mask in photoshop by fading one photo into another. Please leave a comment and let me know what you think, or if you have any other suggestions! Thanks!

 

Thanks to Nate for his interpertation of my joking tweet refering to this quick tip as cheetah grass.  LOL

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9 Responses to “Quick Tip #9 Masking In Photoshop”

  1. Natalie says:

    I appreciate the work that you put into your blog, I have it on google reader, so I read often. I enjoy the photoshop tutorials that you post, although I am past the beginner stage of learning it, I am by no means a natural yet. So many of the tutorials on other blogs are over my head, and are often overwhelming. Your tutorials are straight forward and presented clearly. So, thank you and I will continue to watch for more.

    January 6th, 2009 at 9:32 pm

  2. Nate the Average says:

    thought you meant something different by cheetah grass in your twitter. So i made my vision. http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=4g5408&s=5

    January 7th, 2009 at 3:20 pm

  3. Amy says:

    You’re the shit! Thank you for your delightful blog. i read it daily. Also, as a technical writer/graphic designer wannabe, I greatly appreciate your photoshop tutorials. Keep it up.

    January 7th, 2009 at 6:47 pm

  4. timotato says:

    I enjoy your tips.

    I have a tip for everyone relating to this Photoshop tip #9. I never use the straight line lasso tool because it’s A) a pain in the neck, and B) not necessary. If you select the curved line lasso tool then hold down ALT on Windows (not sure of the equivalent on Mac) when you begin, it will draw curved lines when the ALT key is depressed and straight lines when the ALT key is not depressed… all within the same sequence!

    Another useful tip: To draw a straight line, hold down SHIFT on Windows first then just click endpoints of the line you want. This works with almost every tool!

    January 7th, 2009 at 10:05 pm

  5. Chris Hebert says:

    Niki,
    I admire your ability to create flawless video tutorials. I myself, currently have not played around with the “video” aspect of blogging (but wish to soon).

    Your tutorials are always very well planned out, and you provide great step-by-step demo’s for anyone to follow. This is important – some people just cannot follow along with other Tut’s, but yours are 110% excellent and fun.

    I look forward to some more Tutorial Video’s. ;)

    January 7th, 2009 at 10:12 pm

  6. joyoge designers' bookmark says:

    thanks for this helpful tip

    January 8th, 2009 at 7:04 am

  7. Stephanie says:

    Niki-
    I think you should do a tutorial on the Select Same functions in Illustrator… so simple, but it changed my life when I was introduced to it!

    January 9th, 2009 at 11:18 am

  8. Billy says:

    Nice clear example Nikki – me using Photoshop for a few years but never applied a fill to a selection like that – very cool.

    January 11th, 2009 at 6:33 am

  9. beejay says:

    Thanks for the nice and quick way to do a mask.

    December 15th, 2009 at 5:04 pm