Photo Masking is a process of graphics programs such as Photoshop to hide parts of an image and reveal some parts. It’s a non-destructive image editing process. Most times, you can adjust the mask and adjust it later if necessary. Often, it is an effective and more creative way of photo manipulation services.
Types Of Photo Masking
There are mainly three types of masking in Photoshop –
1. Layer Masking
2. Alpha Channel Masking
3. Clipping Mask
• Only to hide and display
As almost everyone knows, the simplest use of photo masking is to hide and show parts of images. We can give a transitional effect if we use a brush or a very fine gradient to hide. Sometimes, we can control transparencies for image areas, such as a very bright sky. If we want, we can make a very bright dimmer (make the area semi-opaque) simply by cleaning the area in gray. Of course, there are other options for doing this, but this is the easy and easy technology you can choose.
• To change a region of the image
It is very common to change the image area. For example, you want to change the color of the top clothes of a model. You can make a mask by making this part visible. You can then apply any type of change you want, such as correction / color correction, brightness / contrast adjustment, exposure correction, etc.
• Remove / replace transparent objects background
We can use the photo masking technique in order to to eliminate the background of transparent objects as so on. This method is very useful for eliminating background types of transparent objects. We can apply this if we need to replace the bottom of the gauze or a kind of webbed fabric that has some transparency.
One of the advantages of Photo Masking compared to Layer Mask is the ability to make a different area visible simply by moving the cropped image. We can easily adjust what will appear through the mask, if we use the cutting mask. Otherwise, it seems to me that the normal level mask is enough for almost all masking functions. Hiding photographs is a non-destructive process. We can make changes later or adjust our masks when necessary. However, if we remove unwanted areas, it is difficult to load if we need them later in the image editing process. The same is true if we cut off an object or part of the image creation path. We can not easily include several contiguous areas. Only if we want to hide the area we have made, is it possible to use masking technology. So it is very difficult to avoid hiding again, right?