Mastering Masks in Photoshop and Illustrator
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If you work in Photoshop or Illustrator and aren't routinely using masks, you are likely employing lots of convoluted hacks and workarounds to get the result you're after. It's probably painful at times and keeps you up at night. Well, have no fear, Jake Bartlett is here to teach you exactly how image and vector masks work inside of both Adobe Photoshop and Adobe Illustrator.
In this tutorial, Jake, who teaches Photoshop + Illustrator Unleashed in addition to Explainer Camp, walk you through a few examples of how you can use both vector and image-based masks in both apps. Bookmark this one, it's useful AF.
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Jake Bartlett (00:00): Hey, I'm Jake Bartlett. And in this short video, I'm going to teach you how masks work in Photoshop and illustrator masks are powerful. And in a few minutes, you'll be able to use them in your work. Adobe, Photoshop and illustrator are used on just about every motion design project ever. So you need to have a good grasp on how they work in Photoshop and illustrator unleashed. I teach you the ins and outs of both programs from a motion designers perspective. So check that out. If you really want to improve your skills, also, you can download the project files I'm using in this video to follow along or practice this. After you're done watching the details are in the description.
Jake Bartlett (00:46): So what exactly is a mask? Well, it's really just a technique for containing a part of an image or hiding part of an image and illustrator. It's called a clipping mask, and I'm going to show you how that works really quickly. Let's say that I want to have this texture contained within this circle. I'll move this squiggly line group over top of the circle. Obviously it's going outside of it. But if I bring this circle on top of the lines in the layer hierarchy, so I'll just click and drag that circle above it, select both objects, come up to object all the way down to clipping mask and click on make. There you go. That's all there is to it. The squiggly lines are now contained within that shape, but let's say that I wanted to keep that original gray color of the circle and not just have the squiggly lines in the shape of the circle.
Jake Bartlett (01:31): Well, I'll just undo that. And I really easy way of doing this is using what's called the draw inside mode inside of illustrator. And I feel like this is a really little known feature of illustrator. If you're not seeing these three little squares down here, it's probably because your toolbar is collapsed. So make sure that that's expanded so you can see these nice and clearly. But what we need to do is first just cut the squiggly lines hole, select them, press commander, control X, to cut and put them into the clipboard. Then I'll select that circle. Go to this third option, draw inside. We have this new shaped bounding box letting us know that we're in that new drawing mode. And then I'll just paste in place by pressing command shift V or control shift V on a PC. Now, if I click off of this, you'll see that those squiggly lines are contained within the circle, but the circle styling is preserved.
Jake Bartlett (02:20):We look at the layers palette. We have a clip group. If I expand that out, we have the two objects, the ellipse with the underline under it, letting us know that's the object being used as the clipping mask. And then we have the squiggles group from here. I can do whatever I want. I could select just those squiggles and rotate them. I could scale them up or down, change their colors, and once I'm happy with it, I just want to make sure that I go back to draw normal to the standard mode, click off of it. And there we go. So let's take a look at our second example real quick and see how we could use this technique in the real world. This is a file that you can download and follow along with me. Just follow the link in the description of the video.
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"Draw inside" mode was such a big revelation !!Thanks Jake!
You guys are hitting hard with the tutorials as of late. Idk if it's because you have some down time with Covid here, but the last few you've dropped have been some I can definitely take pointers from. Love you guys and what you do. Keep it up!
Glad you are enjoying them Zach! Plenty more to come soon. Stay tuned!!!
Great tutorial Jake! I love watching your AE tuts too! THanks!
Amazing tutorial buddy. Love it. Learnt so much from this. Big ups!!
key concept well explained, thanks a lot guys!
You the man JAKE!
Very helpful, was a challenge understanding Masks in photoshop.
Thank you!
Jake in motion ❤️
My gratitude goes to the Master
Never knew about the vector mask!
Amazzzzing!!!
I see that hidden Mickey in that cover image haha
7:45 very nice idea
00:19 You evil sunsamofos know exactly what you did there and I GREATLY disaprove.
How did I not know about Draw Inside for this long?
Why the re-upload?
This version has been updated to include a few more graphics for keyboard shortcuts for anyone that is still learning them :)
yeah i would but cant register
Hi Tom! Sorry to hear that you are having issues with the registration process. Feel free to hit up our Support Team : support@schoolofmotion.com and they will be happy to help you out. Alternatively, if you go to our site and click the chat icon on the side of your screen, you will be able to reach out to us directly.
is skillshare not profitable anymore? I see more and more creators leaving the plaftorm. Jake Bartlett is a skillshare legend
Hi! Skillshare is still and will always be a great platform. The more the merrier!
I'm not leaving any platforms! I actively make content for both Skillshare and School of Motion; my two favorite places to learn.
I FKING LOVE YOUUUUU GUYS/GIRLS WHATEVER
I didn't understand few things as no logic was given