Caging the Rhino - Understanding Vector Masks

If you're creating a fun design or collage out of your photos, those sharp, right-angled corners may not be sending the message you want. Fortunately, Photoshop makes it incredibly easy to give your photos warm, friendly, rounded corners using a simple Shape tool and a vector mask!

A step-by-step tutorial showing how to achieve High Dynamic Range images using just layer masks.

A layer mask in Photoshop is basically a way of hiding and revealing certain parts of a layer. In this video tutorial, you'll learn how to create, edit, delete, and modify layer masks in Photoshop.

Use this technique to embed images into your text

Knowing how to use the Layer Mask is one of the most professional and powerful things a Photoshop user or designer can know. It is key to making many styles of graphic design. Learn how to use it in this step-by-step tutorial.

This is a beginner's tutorial on layer masks: what they are, how they're used, and so on.

This tutorial will show you how to use clipping masks.

In this tutorial we demonstrate how to cut text-shaped selections out of photographs (and other images), producing a solid framework on which to base logos, commercial artwork, or anything else that you desire.

Quick masks are a handy little Photoshop- feature that many people don't even know about.

Photoshop's Quick Mask mode enables you to create smooth transitions between images on different layers with extraordinary control.

Ever wonder where all those seamless backgrounds come from? How does the creator get them to blend so...well, seamlessly?

Learn how to paint within layer masks

In this tutorial you'll be introduced to the three mask types in Fluid Mask, a Photoshop plugin, and the tools used to apply them.

Learn how to use layer masks and what can be done with them.

Make a more polished image blend by using the layer mask.

We all agree that masks are extremely useful and look a whole lot better than cutting the object out of its background with the Lasso or Pen Tool. But wouldn't it be nice if there were an easier, quicker way to get the basic shape separated from the rest?

Learn how to select any object using Quick Masks and then learn the importance of Alpha Channels.

Tips and tricks for creating selection masks.

Tips and tricks for editing selection masks.