Quick Masking in Photoshop
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by Don Herion
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You've
seen the commercial where a guy impresses his date with a wall of pictures of
himself meeting famous people like Marilyn Monroe and the Pope. Well this tutorial
is for all those guys out there who want to impress their girlfriends about scaling
K2, cruising up the Nile or shaking hands with a Zeta Reticuli alien from the
Zeta Reticulan star system.
In Photoshop, compositing one image
over another seamlessly is relatively easy and fast if you use one of the plug-ins
currently available. Extensis sells a great plug-in called 'Mask Pro' ($199).
But the power is there within Photoshop to create complex composites like the
one below.
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| Compositing two images in Photoshop using Quick Mask |
Mixing and Masking
For this tutorial I decided
to composite a picture of my girlfriend and a picture of Maxim's restaurant in
Paris. Okay, she's not my girlfriend either. She's my wife. Okay, that's a lie
too. I found her on a clip art CD. If anyone out there has her phone number you
can e-mail me at ... just, forget it. As you can see from the image of the woman
she is on a faded yellow background, she has blonde hair and there are lots of
stray hair. Creating a mask from this image will not be easy.
