There are two techniques for cropping an image inside of Illustrator. This video from Train Simple's Illustrator Training shows you boh.

Robbie Carman explains how to isolate part a shot for color refinement by using masks in SpeedGrade. With complete control over the shape, position, and softness of masks, you'll find them a powerful way to fix or enhance portions of a shot.

Learn how to put a subject in a new environment. Chris Orwig uses the Quick Select tool to build a mask and take a subject from one photo to another. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Learn how to combine two different images together in Photoshop. This allows you to change the environment where the picture was taken by using the Free Transform, Crop, Selection, Mask and Refine Radius tools to transform two photos into one. Applies to the CC and CS6 versions of Photoshop. Learn more from the full courses at lynda.com.

Explore why SVG may be the most significant technology to leverage as myriad displays continue to emerge on an almost daily basis. Learn how to get started with SVG as well as how to ensure harmonization across web platforms with SVG2. During this session, Alan Greenblatt, Adobe Evangelist, and Dirk Schulze, Adobe Computer Scientist, will:- Outline the foundations of SVG such as drawing shapes, transforms, and animation- Demonstrate SVG features such as transforms, masks, clip-paths, and filters applied to HTML content- Provide a look at the SVG support in the tools you know and love, and show exactly what it is they are exporting- Explain the work Adobe has been contributing to CSS and SVG to bring vector graphics back to the forefront of web design- Showcase key SVG2 features such as masking, filters, text decoration, and advanced styling

In this Quick Tip, Julieanne demonstrates three different ways to display an image with in a shape in Photoshop including vector masks, clipping masks and layer groups.

Learn how easy it is to apply local adjustments including modifications to exposure, contrast, sharpening and more, using the new non–destructive Radial filter in Lightroom.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates how nesting Smart Objects enables each filter applied to have it’s own unique Smart Filter (layer) masks.

After Effects has evolved throughout the past 20 years to make rotoscoping a less eye-bleeding task. Check out how After Effects has changed throughout the years and get a sneak peek at the evolution of rotoscoping.

Layer Groups - they’re not just for organizing your layers! In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates 5 ways to use Layer Groups to create special effects in Photoshop.

In this Quick Tip, Julieanne reveals a simple technique to paste content directly into a layer mask in Photoshop CS6.

In this Quick Tip, Julieanne reveals a technique to create a mask using the reflected gradient which can quickly be repositioned over time without retouching.

In this episode of The Complete Picture, Julieanne demonstrates how to mask a video clip in Photoshop CS6 to reveal motion in a selective region of the clip over time.

In this movie author Julieanne Kost discusses one of the most commonly used filters in Photoshop, the Unsharp Mask filter, which allows you to make an image appear sharper. She also talks about adjusting the three different variables for this filter: Amount, Radius, and Threshold.

Learn some basic design techniques for enhancing your favorite images. Take a simple image and make it pop out of its background for extra impact. This techique is great for special event and holiday cards.

Even with the fantastic new Blur Gallery in Photoshop CS6, the Lens Blur filter is an essential tool when a high degree of control is needed to selectively (and realistically) blur an image. In this video tutorial, Julieanne uses the Lens Blur filter with a depth map to to create a series of images that appear as if they were captured with a tilt-shift lens. Julieanne also demonstrates how to quickly apply this filter to multiple images using actions and batch processing.

Many advanced photographers are shooting multiple exposures these days in an attempt to blend them together and achieve the perfect composition. In this episode, Colin will reveal a simple one-click feature that will do all the work for you and the result looks like the same as if you took hours to paint a complex Layer Mask.

Discover the new Mask Feather tool and why it's so important and useful. See how the tool can easily take a difficult rotoscoping task and simplify it by allowing AE to generate a variable feather around a mask that includes both sharp and blurry edges.

Learn more about the power of the Mask Feather tool and how it can be used in design work for creating both outside and inside feathers on a single mask. Discover how to set and adjust multiple points in the mask, context menu features such as Hold, and how to use the tool to add a nice blur effect to a text mask.

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

Russell Brown offers two different approaches for creating a magical effect by painting with light on an image in Photoshop Touch.

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 quick tutorial, Russell demonstrates how to combine two photographs using a gradient mask.

Adobe Press and video2brain show you how to apply motion tracking data to an adjustment layer and use rotoscoping on that adjustment layer to selectively perform color correction on a moving object.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne discusses how the addition of color as well as supporting imagery can help reinforce the mood and message of a composite image that a single photograph may fail to do on it’s own.

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.

In this Episode of the Complete Picture Julieanne reveals some basic compositing techniques in Photoshop CS5 that she used to illustrate the feeling and mood of Iceland. Discover how easy it is to combine multiple images together using Layers, masking, blend modes, and transparency in Photoshop CS5.

Get smooth flawless skin, remove wrinkles and brighten eyes. Whilst the tutorial is very fast moving many of the techniques can be used in more detail to get some fantastic results. Its all non destructive and uses many layers.

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.

Discover the many design possibilities with Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended by exploring the latest design trends from movies, TV, and magazines. This session will cover masks, selections, and creating stunning effects, including working with 3D and video, plus so much more. You'll walk away with killer tips and techniques that take advantage of the magic of Photoshop.

In this tutorial we will be learning how to create a severed arm with fleshy stumps and strings of sinew. This will be created by using some basic Brushes and Layer Masks.

In this video Dan Moughamian shows you how you can use the refine edge command to refine selection or mask edges. This is Tip #65 from Adobe Digital Imaging How-To's Book.

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

After Effects makes it simple to use text as an outline for a different layer. Karl Soule’ explains how.

Photoshop Elements comes with various brush presets that you can use to create a custom frame. Learn how to create a custom frame non-destructively by using layer masks.

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.

Continue your education in Adobe After Effects CS5 by learning how to use masks to reveal different layers of your composition. Also covered is how to duplicate text from another composition so that you can reanimate in different ways.

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.

Selectively colorize key elements in a black and white image. Layer masks make the process simple.

Precisely preview and adjust difficult selections. Output your results to a new layer, mask, or document to creatively combine the selection with new backgrounds.

In this episode, Russell Brown demonstrates advanced masking techniques in Photoshop CS5 that will help you get great results from seemingly impossible images.

In this episode of the Russell Brown Show, Russell shows you some of the new Masking features found in Adobe Photoshop CS5 combined with the amazing new Content Aware Fill feature.

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.

In this episode, Russell Brown demonstrates how beginning and advanced users can quickly and easily create professional quality masks using Photoshop CS5's Refine Mask panel.

In this sequel to the previous episode, Chet shows how to create a better reflection effect in Flex 4 with an alpha mask to make it more realistic.

Select soft edges and areas of fine detail by using the improved Refine Edge and Refine Mask dialog boxes. View underlying layers to create realistic composites, and finesse selections by using refinement brushes.

Web and application designers use Fireworks to optimize graphics, create polished text documents, add interactivity to prototypes, preview prototypes in mobile device emulators, and export to Flash Catalyst.

Learn how to use the Draw Behind and Draw Inside drawing modes to efficiently achieve various layer effects in Illustrator CS5.

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.

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.

In part 1 of this 2 part episode, Russell Brown shows us his personal tips and techniques on how to extract an image from a green screen background using Adobe Photoshop CS4

In Photoshop CS4 adjustments are easier to find, easier to use and are completely non-destructive. Learn how to work 200% faster!

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

You’ll be amazed how much faster you can fine tune your images with the new Adjustments and Masks Panel in Photoshop CS4. Julieanne Kost shows you how.

Mike shows you a trick he learned from Russell Browns at Adobe Max; how to take a Camera Raw image of a Samurai Warrior shot on a green screen background and cut him out using masks and Hue Saturation.

In the murky past…. Makes you think of fog right? Join Dennis in this episode of Adobe Beginner Classes as he gives you a method for creating semi-realistic fog inside of After Effects with nothing but a Photoshop document!

In this Adobe Flash Professional CS4 tutorial, Paul Burnett continues to build out his Adobe AIR application by showing you how to create the illusion of reflections in objects adding masking.

Acclaimed photographer, Nevada Wier, talks about the features that she loves the most in CS4.

Meet the team of talented Designers who are out to share their vision for a bicycle-friendly world.

Discover how Adobe Photoshop CS4 can be used to manipulate video in this Photoshop tutorial. Join Karl Soulé as he shows you the intricacies of Adjustment Layers, the Masks Panel, and more!

Learn an advanced masking technique in Photoshop that you can use when normal masking is almost impossible. Let Russell Brown show you how easy it is in this Photoshop CS4 tutorial.

Learn some advanced Photoshop CS4 masking magic in this second installment of Russell Brown’s new season of Photoshop tutorials.

This Photoshop tutorial teaches you how color range can be the secret to success when masking images in Adobe Photoshop CS4. Join us for a new season of tutorials by Russell Brown!

Kevin Ames shows you how to use Photoshop CS4's integral new components, including Adobe Bridge CS4. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

In this episode, we unmask the Masks palette in Photoshop CS4. Will it be a bag of treats? Or a bundle of tricks? You'll find out, in dekePod.

Discover some advanced techniques in Photoshop CS4 Extended for merging 3D images together, and creating special transparency effects.

Richard Harrington shows you how to speed up your workflow using the vibrance adjustment, fine edge command, and mask panels in Photoshop CS4. Recorded at Photoshop World Las Vegas, 2008.

Richard Harrington shows you what’s new with masks in Photoshop CS4 and how to use them to non-destructively add transparency to an image.

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.

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.

Bring 2D images to life with this new Photoshop CS4 Extended technique for converting grayscale images into 3D objects. This tutorial will also show how to generate 3D depth maps from the image.

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!".

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.

Learn about some of the advanced features in Photoshop CS4 Extended for animating 3D objects. In this project we will create a solar eclipse simulation from 2D images of the earth and moon.

Creative COW Leader Aharon Rabinowitz shares a method of quickly and automatically creating extremely precise junk mattes/garbage masks for use in the keying process.

Corey shares a tutorial about using symbols and masks in Illustrator. Rich Harrington is back and this time he is talking about the Gradient Wipe feature inside of After Effects.

In this episode, Colin Smith explains what masks are and shows you how to open up creative possibilities by leveraging their power. Animate an image inside text and create a funky border

Discover the magic of clipping masks in Photoshop CS3, and how you can create complex masks with this simple technique.

Learn how to import virtual sets from Cinema 4D into After Effects, and how to use chroma keying, masks, mattes, layers and blend modes for compositing.

Corey has a tutorial about the benefits of using vector masks and special guest Bert Monroy shares a tip he uses when working in Illustrator and Photoshop.

Learn the differences between shape layers, paths and pixel filled shapes. Whether you want to add arrows or use a custom shape to mask an image, here's how.

This movie covers techniques for fine-tuning masks in Photoshop, and explores the Overlay mode. Instructor Deke McClelland takes a soft-focus indoor shot and masks it perfectly.

Corey breaks down a popular new effect to gives your static images some life. RC goes over some of the basics of using Masks in Flash.