Masking is the secret weapon behind many jaw-dropping designs, making it one of the most powerful techniques you can master ...

If you’ve used Photoshop for image-editing, you know that the popular program can sometimes be a little intimidating for newcomers. One of the advanced, but vital tools you’ll need to get to grips ...

Editing images and producing image composites for your clients or business can require you to separate parts of a photo onto individual layers. If you've copied and pasted an entire image onto a new ...

Remember the last time you gave your walls a fresh coat of paint? You probably used a roll of blue or beige masking tape to cover the baseboards and windows so you wouldn’t get paint on them. Masking ...

Adobe Photoshop is, for many, the very last word in image creating and editing software. Adobe boasts that "over 90% of the world's creative professionals use Adobe Photoshop," and the program is so ...

The most difficult objects to mask are those with soft, undefined edges. This is a common issue in photos snapped using a wide aperture (or too close to the object), resulting in an increasingly soft ...

Early portrait photographers often vignetted photographs by cutting them out in rounded shapes or masking the photographic paper while an image printed, restricting the result to an ellipse. Because a ...