Mask-Question

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Tom
Sep 6, 2003
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I was looking at a render of a room that had a beautiful blur added to it, the image was posted on a forum, blur was added in Photoshop and the person who created the image described the process as follows:
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photoshop – duplicate the layer, copy the layer, create a mask for our new layer, and paste the layer contents in the mask .
So you have 2 layers, both containing the same data, except that the upper one has a mask represented by a grayscale copy of the image. Add the sharpen filter to the top layer, blur the upper layer a bit and change the opacity – voila
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Can someone explain the top line a little bit I am just not getting it (ps I have never used masks before)

Appreciate any info,
Thanks
Tom

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edjh
Sep 6, 2003
Tom wrote:
I was looking at a render of a room that had a beautiful blur added to it, the image was posted on a forum, blur was added in Photoshop and the person who created the image described the process as follows:
____________________________________________________________ ________________ _________________
photoshop – duplicate the layer, copy the layer, create a mask for our new layer, and paste the layer contents in the mask .
So you have 2 layers, both containing the same data, except that the upper one has a mask represented by a grayscale copy of the image. Add the sharpen filter to the top layer, blur the upper layer a bit and change the opacity – voila
************************************************************ **************** *****************

Can someone explain the top line a little bit I am just not getting it (ps I have never used masks before)

Appreciate any info,
Thanks
Tom
I think what he means is: Make the duplicate, Select All, Copy. Make a layer mask by clicking on the mask icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. Go to Channels, click on the mask channel that appears there. Select All, Paste. That should give you your image in grayscale in the Layer Mask.

Click back on the image in the duplicate layer and do Sharpen, Blur, etc.

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RTo2
Sep 6, 2003
On Sat, 6 Sep 2003 10:45:20 +0100, "Tom"
wrote:

I was looking at a render of a room that had a beautiful blur added to it, the image was posted on a forum, blur was added in Photoshop and the person who created the image described the process as follows:
____________________________________________________________ ________________ _________________
photoshop – duplicate the layer, copy the layer, create a mask for our new layer, and paste the layer contents in the mask .
So you have 2 layers, both containing the same data, except that the upper one has a mask represented by a grayscale copy of the image. Add the sharpen filter to the top layer, blur the upper layer a bit and change the opacity – voila
************************************************************ **************** *****************

Can someone explain the top line a little bit I am just not getting it (ps I have never used masks before)

Appreciate any info,
Thanks
Tom

I really recommend doing a search for Mask’s in Google to look for Tuts’

There is a good one at www.worth1000.com in the tutorial’s section

If you want to use PS to any measure you should understand and learn masks.

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