OK, this is me being very dim again. Apols in advance. What I want to do is use masks to be able to paint in a grey-black cloudy background behind a horse (fine mane, etc).
I’ve added a duplicate layer. The levels-and-desaturate-and-paint bit to create a black horse on white ground I’m fine with.
But when we get to add layer mask, I have a total and utter mental block on whether I need to set opacity to black white or whatever to allow me to leave the black area untouched. And then what do I do? Help!
I know this is really basic but just cannot get my head around it. I’ve watched tutorial after tutorial and they just confuse me more
Anyoen brave enough to have a go at talking me through the steps?
Absolutely. I just seem to have a blind spot, it all seems very complex and if I try to follow the steps it makes no sense. Here’s a screen shot, let’s assume I want to make that into a mask so I can turn the white bits into a painted background while leaving the black bit (which is part of a horses face in the layer underneath) as a horses face.
You want to apply that mask to an image. The usual way is
Add a layer mask to the image Layer → Mask → Add Layer Mask and choose the white version
Copy the mask image Edit Copy (ctrl - c)
Make the layer mask active by clicking in the mask icon in the layers dialogue
Ctrl-v to paste into the layer mask, gives a floating layer
Anchor the layer Layer → Anchor layer (ctrl → h)
