How to Use Layer Masks in Adobe Photoshop Elements 15 - Part 4

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Hello again and welcome back to our course on PSE 15. In this section we’re going to take a look at Layer Masks.

Earlier on in the course I pointed out to you that one of the reasons that you need to develop your use of selection tools is to be able to work on part of an image. When you’re working with layers sometimes you need to work on part of a layer. And one way of doing this, a very effective way of doing this usually is to use Layer Masks. And the basic principle behind a layer mask is really in the name. If you have a layer that performs a certain task, so for instance supposing it’s a layer that is applying an effect to an image or perhaps a color change. We stop the effect being applied in part of the image by masking the effect. In order to demonstrate this I’m going to apply an effect to this orchid but it’s only going to be applied to the flowers, the petals themselves. The background including the foliage will not be affected by this effect.

I have the background copy layer selected. What I’m going to do is apply an adjustment layer and I’m going to apply a filter. We haven’t really used filters so far. You don’t really need to know much about them at the moment because we’re going to spend a little bit of time on them in the not too distant future. But even if you’re not really familiar with photographic filters what I’m going to do is apply a warming filter to this image.

So the Warming Filter 85 here is the one that I’m going to apply. I have a slider here where I can adjust the density of the warming effect. So I’m going to slide it quite a long way over to the right. Probably grossly overdoing it so that you can very definitely see where the effect is and isn’t being applied. So let’s push it a long way over to the right. You see the warming effect on the whole image? Maybe that’s just a bit too much. What about setting it there at 80%? Having applied that I’m now going to close the Filter dialog itself.

Note the layer in the Layers panel. There are actually two thumbnails. One thumbnail says Layer Thumbnail and the other one says Layer Mask Thumbnail. And it’s now the layer mask that I’m going to work on.

Now here’s a very important point. You notice that sort of double blue line around the layer mask. That means that the layer mask is selected and if I want to do some work on this layer at the moment the work would be on the layer mask. If I click back on the thumbnail for the layer itself this thumbnail indicates a filter then it would be the layer itself that I would be working on. So if I right clicked now and said Edit Adjustment it would bring up the Photo Filter dialog again. Whereas if I make sure that the layer mask thumbnail has the double blue line around it whatever I do now is going to be applied to the layer mask.

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