For this installment of How They Did It, Here are the 5 best free masking tutorials for Adobe PhotoShop on the web. There are many great sources for learning and mastering PhotoShop, I highly recommend watching and reading anything you can from Deke McClelland, Scott Kelby and the wonderful folks at Lynda.com.
Deke McClelland: The Essential Approach To Masking
If you watch any video on the essentials of masking images in PhotoShop, watch THIS one!
Photoshop CS5 Masking Tutorial
Masking, Mask Refinement and Non-Destructive image editing are vital components when compositing with Photoshop CS5. This is a pretty good tutorial. via http://shawnkent.net
Photoshop Tutorial: Masking Techniques, part 1
A good round up of masking technique using paths, also: Part 2.
How To Remove Background Around Lots Of Hair Photoshop
A decent beginning tutorial. A handy use of the burn tool to take out fringing after a mask is created.
How to Quickly Select Images – Cut Out Detailed Images in Photoshop CS5
I like the use of the refine edge command in this tutorial.
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