What is a mask?

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May 18, 2019
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Hi I’m a beginner digital artist and want to know what a mask is? And would it be useful for cell shading drawings if so could you tell me how to do it?

[Title edited for clarity by moderator. Was “photo shop beginner help”]

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Correct answer jane-e

Hi Arron,

Imagine that you want to paint house numbers on the curb or a decorative border on a wall. The stencil is the mask. You protect the parts where you don’t want paint and the paint only goes in the areas that have been cut. That’s the basic principle of a mask in Photoshop. The tutorials from Bojan and Dean will fill in the how-to’s for using masks in Photoshop.

Jane

jane-e

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Hi Arron,

Imagine that you want to paint house numbers on the curb or a decorative border on a wall. The stencil is the mask. You protect the parts where you don’t want paint and the paint only goes in the areas that have been cut. That’s the basic principle of a mask in Photoshop. The tutorials from Bojan and Dean will fill in the how-to’s for using masks in Photoshop.

Jane

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DeanUtian

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Hi Arron,

Masks are essentially a way to hide / make transparent or semi-transparent some parts of a layer to blend it with a layer behind.

Look at the Photoshop support page as already posted. You can also do a search for Photoshop mask tutorial and you'll find lots more. Here is another you can look at:

Make your first layer mask |

Bojan Živković11378569

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Please visit this tutorial page which contains written and video tutorials with explanation what is layer/vector mask and what you can do with it Use masks to hide layers in Photoshop

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