welcome or welcome back thanks so much for joining me Jessica McGovern International multi
award-winning portrait photographer and today we're going to be talking about basically how
to do hair masking fur masking in 2023 and that's because I'm using Photoshop 2023 so we're kind of
skipping ahead it is currently December if you're joining us from the future hi there thanks so much
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Friday at 12 noon and we do all things photography but mainly you'll find animals here because I like
them this is a five minute tip so let's put five minutes on the clock and get stuck in
on the screen right now you can see a picture of Pippi okay now I will I basically finish my edit
with this but there's one thing I want to add and to do that I'm going to need a mask because if I
go ahead and add a movable colour layer which is this one if I go ahead and add that if you
don't know what that is there's a video on how to make one above click on that right now and we'll
fast forward you to that part of life which is actually in the past if I go ahead and add that
gradient fill layer coming up from the top there then it looks ridiculous like don't ever do this
just don't but I need a mask and so I wanted to talk to you about how to basically make masks
work better for your life in 2023's version of Photoshop because things have changed guys and
we need to address them I literally have prepared some other RAW files that I found earlier on in
the wilderness of my RAW file computer storage all of these would need this treatment added to
it if you're wanting to do something and isolate the subject right so if you're wanting to apply
an effect or change the background even of a subject or clean up objects that go through the
subject all of the above would need a mask right including this example right here so you might be
doing this exact thing but you're going to be needing a mask and therefore that's what we're
talking about today so what do we need to do well first things first do not go into select and mask
I don't want you to do it you're not allowed you don't go into select and mask right now you don't
even select the subject right now oh no oh no you want to go up to photoshop preferences okay
now in preferences you can just go General if you want or you can select the correct option
from the list here we're going to go into General right with the preferences window open and visible
we're going to head over to image processing now before I do this I need to say a big thank
you to the individual who emailed me and it was an email and I know it was an email I just can't find
the damn email somebody emailed me about this in October and I can't find the email I can't find it
to thank the person by name on here I've looked everywhere I'm so sorry if it was you and you
sent me that email you deserve a freaking medal and you need to write your name below this video
right now so that I can identify you and send our gratitude so we need to go to image processing and
then where it says select subject processing this thing will probably say device and in brackets
quicker results we don't want quicker results we want goddamn better results so we're going to
click into that I'm going to choose Cloud which is detailed results it does take longer okay I'm just
going to say that right now it takes longer but not that much longer so you just got to deal with
it and then if you want to you can change this to more stable to make it even slower for you I'm not
going to do that we're going to leave that and cloud in this one faster I'm going to click ok
alrighty are we here are we with me next we need to find a layer with an image on it okay we need
the image itself we need the subject to be visible I'm just going to grab my background layer and I'm
just going to duplicate it to get a image right we need an image layer it can't be an effect it can't
be an adjustment it must be the image then we're going to go all the way up here and we're going
to choose select and we're going to do select and mask no more selecting subjects you can if you
want I'm not here to tell you off for that but no more selecting subjects now if you wanted to keep
it on device and not use cloud you could change it in this little drop you down button here but
we've done it on cloud so it's always on cloud so we don't need to do that okay then we're going to
click select subject and watch by magic as the subject is selected this isn't new by the way
guys this has been in Photoshop select and mask for a long time okay so we have our subject popped out
okay make sure and note I have not got sample or layers selected I literally just want this one and
in terms of the selection that's been made it's not the world's most horrendous thing I've ever
seen actually it's pretty damn good and Pippi is the hardest dog animal thing in the entire world
to mask if you've done any of the edits on her you will know that I speak the truth anyhow next what
we're going to do by the way if your view is on weird stuff and not red choose overlay and set it
to about 40% you will thank me later probably make sure we're using object aware in 99.9% of cases and
you want to make sure that you're grabbing hold of your refined Edge brush over here now the settings
for this in an ideal specific world are literally the default settings its the truth they are the
best but you might want to increase your hardness at times okay there might be times where you want
to increase your hardness up or whatever I'm gonna do 49 because why not and at this stage we need to
make sure that our brush size is adequate to be doing the subject we're doing now if you have an
area that's quite flat and straight and thin use a smaller brush if you are doing a fluffy area
use a larger brush do not use a freaking large brush guys it's never going to do a good
effect it's just not good small brush and then what we're going to do is we're then going to
go ahead and starting from one area remember where we're going to start to work up the edge now we've
got a fluffy bit here we're going to come out down the fluff we're going up we're going out
down the fluff we're going up up up and then we get this fluffy bit and now we're going out down
all of the fluffs I just keep going in all one brush stroke but you don't have to do that if
you really don't want to so we're going like down the fluff okay that's important second important
thing to remember about the select and mask tool is that you want to keep your crosshair so the middle
of that little circle that we can see working its way around the screen you want to keep that
little crosshair to the outside of the subject okay so we don't want to bring that like right
in over the subject's fluff we want to keep that out on the outside okay so the brush must remain
on the outer portion I'm still holding this down and I feel like my finger might actually break in
a minute anyway so then well basically I'm just going to speed up because the rest of it is just
this all over again out out out out out out out out out out fluffy out fluffy out fluffy out so
we go through blah blah blah as we do inside the legs I'm not that fussed about right now
this section could do a little bit of hand holding if you have something where there's just a major
error and it's horrendously disastrous go ahead and grab on the little brush here this little
brush uses the same keyboard shortcuts as all of our other little brushes there's loads of videos
on keyboard shortcuts there's two on my channel if you want to go and look at them start with part
one and that's linked above so if we do doing the little brush here we want a little bit of a softer
brush but not too soft we're not going outside the lines do not go outside the lines how many
times do we have to say about that colour inside the lines I'm just gonna just dab dab dab add a
little bit in there I'm not going overboard okay I'm gonna trust the program then on our right hand
side here we're going to go down to the bottom and we're going to make sure that our settings
look like mine for the most part and output it to a layer mask because I'm just going to nick
that layer mask and put it where I need it anyway so I'm just going to output it to the layer mask
with that outputted to said layer mask right we can zoom out on the image and look at it in all of
its beauty and gorgeousness and we can see that we still have our problem here because the mask is on
a different layer now Photoshop Basics we've got a video on that we also have an online course so if
you're interested in that then go ahead and have a look at that resource which is available we're
going to click drag and drop that mask onto our gradient fill layer okay we're going to do that
that is a done thing we've done it if you had a mask there already there will be a pop-up that
comes up and says do you want to replace the mask obviously the answer to that question is yes so
do that now we're going to click on the mask and it's the wrong way round again Photoshop Basics
we've linked to it before I'm going to just invert that with command I another keyboard shortcut and
pop our little gradient layer radial gradient and whatever we want to call it down on the outside
so now if I zoom in on a little Pippi look how perfect this little mask is it's looking really
good there's one area which is this part here that I'm not 100% on so that I'm going to go in
and touch up my mask there's a recent video about that on the channel I'll link to that above also
realistically that's it that is the new major update to the stuff that we've been talking about
in Photoshop and now I'm happy with this image I feel like that little pop of light really makes
it and completes it if you like this style of work and this is something that you're looking
to emulate with dogs in forests then you're probably going to be interested in the online
advanced outdoor canine portrait course I still can't even say that and if you're interested in
general retouching wizardry full edits and stuff then like this for example then have a look at
the premium membership okay I'm not doing any more sales talks for the day that's the update
on select and mask you make sure you go ahead and look at that cloud toggle thing some little tips
dotted in there as well hopefully that was useful for you if it was please say so in the comments
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for another five minute Friday and I'm pretty sure next week is still a five minute Friday
and then we get into the festive spirit and do all sorts of stuff over Christmas so I'll see you soon