** How to use a Photo Mask in Photoshop
Yikes! This Carnival mask is scary! If I am totally honest, I have to say that the trepidation I feel looking at this mask equals the fear I experienced when I initially heard about Photoshop masks. I just wanted to look away and pretend they weren't there. Since that time, however, I have learned to love masks; and I now use them in my workflow every single day. So what ARE masks? When would you use a mask? You would use a mask on a layer when you want to hide portions of that layer and to reveal the layer below. How do you add a mask? Select your desired layer to make it active, then click on the mask icon (gray rectangle with a light gray circle in the middle) which is located at the bottom of the Layers Panel. In the image below, I have applied a layer mask to the layer named "sd_tma-p2." Masks appear as white documents linked to the selected layer. The white indicates the area of the image that is currently visible. What next? C...