How to get the most out of the Mask Feather Tool in After Effects CS6.

An uplifting morality film about removing the mask of ignorance and apathy and helping out your fellow person.

In this video Russell Brown uses Adobe Photoshop Touch on an ipad 2 to mask out background images.

In this episode of Short and Suite, Technical Evangelist Karl Soule demonstrates how to use Color Finesse along with Adobe After Effects' built in masking tools to perform secondary color corrections.

See how Photoshop CS5 easily selects intricate image elements such as hair; eliminates background color around selection edges; and automatically varies selection edges and creates perfect masks using new refinement tools.

Watch how Illustrator and After Effects can be used together to create organic animations using simple masks copied and pasted between the two applications. Also see how the Twirl tool in Illustrator can be used to distort paths and make it look as if “tendrils” are growing outward. This all comes together in After Effects by setting the first vertex and ensuring your blended masks don’t flip inside out.

RC has a viewer-inspired tip on using Illustrator's alignment tools with clipping masks. Corey opens up Photoshop and shows a tip on creating a stroke around text with an empty space between using layer styles.

In this video you will learn how to isolate and adjustment with a gradient in Photoshop CS5 using curves and targeted adjustment tool.

Masking tools in Photoshop are very powerful, but there are times when you need to make manual adjustments. This tutorial gives you the tools you need to understand how to tweak and mask and paint in isolated areas.

Somewhere between the decisive moment and moving pictures lies the world of digital compositing - where multiple images captured at different times layer together to create a whole that is greater than the sum of its parts. In this episode Julieanne Kost will demonstrate how to transform concepts and ideas into images by mastering the tools used in compositing.

The new tools to create complex selections in Photoshop CS5 allow both professional long time users to get a great result faster and new users to to get a professional result without tearing their hair out.

Adobe Photoshop software is the tool of choice for designers and web professionals. Now with Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can continue to push the boundaries of traditional digital imaging. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush. Create superior composites for print or web layouts with new technology that makes it easy to select even the trickiest image elements, like hair. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels. Easily create 3D logos and artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask using new Adobe Repoussé technology. Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photo realistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. And import animated GIFs. Plus so much more.

Work faster with everyday tools in Illustrator CS5. Draw behind, disregarding stacking order, and draw or place an image inside, instantly creating a clipping mask.

The vast majority of video professionals use Adobe Photoshop software to help them create and enhance visual effects and motion graphics, or to prepare still images and text for inclusion in video projects. With new Photoshop CS5 Extended, you can leverage cross‐platform 64‐bit support, the unrivaled Photoshop image‐editing toolset, and Adobe 3D Forge—the powerful Photoshop 3D engine that enables you to create and enhance 3D and motion‐based content. Plus, you can enjoy tighter integration with Adobe tools you use every day, including Adobe After Effects CS5, and Adobe Premiere Pro CS5. Realistically blend colors on canvas with the new Mixer Brush, and paint on 2D and 3D artwork more naturally using lifelike Bristle Tips. Remove an image element, and let Content‐Aware Fill intelligently replace the missing pixels.Use new Exposure Merge technology to create photorealistic or wildly surreal 32-bit HDR images with unprecedented speed, control, and accuracy. Take advantage of new Adobe Repoussé technology to easily create 3D artwork from any text layer, selection, or layer mask. And so much more.

Take the time and frustration out of making precise image selections. New Truer Edge selection technology in Photoshop CS5 and Photoshop CS5 Extended offers better edge detection and masking results in less time—even when you select the trickiest image elements, like hair. Eliminate background color around the edges of your selection with new color decontamination capabilities.

In this Adobe Photoshop CS4 Tutorial, Russell Brown show us how to use the masking tools in Photoshop on really complex problems such as masking a polar bear standing in a field of ice and snow.

Quickly create and edit masks from the Masks panel. This panel offers all the tools you need to create editable pixel- and vector-based masks

Rediscover the Adjustment layers through the powerful Adjustments panel. Colin Smith shows you all the main features as well as the new Mask panel and the revamped Dodge, Burn and Sponge tools.

This tutorial demonstrates how to combine the refined edges of the Pen Tool and the soft transparent qualities of the Extract Tool in Photoshop CS3. The results are well worth the effort.

Discover how to wrap any image around the inside of a sphere to create a panorama in Photoshop CS4. Then step into this digital space and use some of the new CS4 tools to look around your new world.

Once you learn about this new, intelligent, scaling technology in Photoshop CS4, you’ll be tempted to never use the standard Transform tools again. Russell Brown says, "This new feature is downright amazing!".

Get ready for an incredible 3D experience, as you view this quick-look at some of the new 3D features in Photoshop CS4. See some of Russell Brown’s favorite new tools for working, and experimenting, with 3D objects.

Create a nice black and white effect in Photoshop. Colin Smith then shows you how to use the pressure sensitive tools with a Wacom tablet to create some nice masking effects.

Never fear, the Extract Tool is here! Rediscover the Extract Tool in Photoshop CS3. In some situations, it's still the best way to make a mask for detailed hair.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you an overview of the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.

Total Training shows you the basic keying effects, then more advanced topics including compositing with keys, rotoscoping with masks and paint tools, and cropping with Keylight.