Pixlr Tutorial: How to use a layer mask - Lesson 8 Video Lecture | Pixlr Tutorial: Master Image Editing - Professional Skills

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welcome to another Pixlr tutorial and in
this tutorial i'm going to look at how
to combine two images to make one image
using a layer mask so i'm starting with
the dingoo then the picture of the room
and combine them to create this picture
with the dingoo in the foreground of the
room with some text so what is a layer
mask imagine you've got a sheet of paper
and on that paper there are some text
some of it will be revealed and some
will be hidden you place another sheet
of paper over that text and that is your
mask you can't see anything below that
page cut a hole in the mask and the text
below will be revealed someone looking
at that text will only see what you want
them to see and not the rest of the page
because the page is masked
so in effect layer masks hide or mask
certain parts of a layer
so to start with let's just open up the
two bitches again uh LaRue
and they didn't go let's just check the
sizes of these two bitches the main
picture the you Laura picture is eight
hundred and forty pixels whereas the
dingo is six hundred and forty two
pixels so when this dingo is put onto
the foreground of Allah Roo it's going
to look too big and a little bit out of
place not natural so I really need to
resize the dingo first before
continually further so precise you meet
size so it's just going to have it 300
pixels that's it there's a hundred
percent
which once it's once the background is
cut away from that will look fairly
natural so we're going to work on the
dingo image first we need to unlock the
background and then with the lasso tool
roughly outline the dingo
and it's the dingo that we want to keep
the rest of that image can be made
transparent and to do that we're going
to add a layer mask which will mark out
that part of the image that is not
selected so add a layer mask and the
background is now hidden let's make that
a bit bigger and what we need to do now
is erase the background from the dingo
just leaving that so you can do that
with the wand tool but I'm going to use
the eraser and magnify in the Navigator
the image sides have been easier to see
the edges select a small brush a soft
edged brush and then this is the slow
part with the edge of that brush resting
on the the image of the dingo going
around the outline
and it's going to take some times of
patience if you want to get into these
little bits inside here you can actually
change the brush just smaller one so
maybe you're five but it's smaller
magnify it a bit more you're getting
right into the edge there
if you've got a shorthand you can just
draw a line I'll just find that's a bit
difficult and when I've got a big enough
area change the brush size with that
size and then I can rub it out
I will go away and finish you racing the
background and then come back in a
moment
so here's the finished image with the
background erased if I magnified that a
bit more I still see a little bit setup
missed
so you can just move it around on the
navigator and anything that's sort of
got any bit of color in it
you can erase again once you've done
that save the dingo
as a transparent image showing how to
file so we'll save it as a transparent
PNG image renamed it
and say it's already cited so replace it
and close that
so now what I want to do is to open the
dingo and place it into the image of all
the room so I'm going to add as a new
layer
the transparent didn't go using the move
tool move it into place
and then save that
as a JPEG all the room
with Dingaan
100%
now adding text
currently got two layers but the
background layer in the the dingo which
has been added as a new layer nobody
puts a text on now if I start typing the
text on the same layer as the dingo if I
make a mistake
and want to delete that text or delete
that layout then the dingo will
disappear with it like to add some text
let's create a new layer so I can either
do it from the layer menu new layer up
or from the layers palette so do it from
here
and rename the last I know which one it
is is going to be the text layer one
dingo
so I can sort of use the layers palette
to see what where everything is and tap
with the a the text is going to say in
the room
and then you can choose the fonts I'll
just keep it Ariel
and the size up and down make a quite
big could make it bold
change the color you want to change the
color you got the color wheels up I want
it to be green I could just move around
this like it to the greens and then pick
the particular shade of green and as I'm
doing that I can see the color changing
in the textbox want to pick a color
that's in the image for the text instead
of just doing black so one of the the
color of the ears rock there pick the
color picker tool select it and that's
the shade there and I can get a
different shade so if I wanted a bit
darker say that color now I've got the
hex code which is probably going to be
important thought translating that into
the textbox so I'm going to copy the hex
code of that color yes if I do okay I'll
pick the color will do okay the text
doesn't change I have to select the
color while I'm in the textbox so here's
the color and I can just paste it now
and into a que
and now that text has changed which
looks a little bit better because it's
closer to the the color of Ayers Rock of
all the room now what else you can do
with text is have some text styles so it
needs a little bit of shadow I think so
it was still working in the same layout
there is a text styles and that textiles
would couldn't be used for whichever lay
you want so selecting the layer and then
picking the text styles are fixed that
layer the layer is highlighted that's
the layer that you're working with
so what textiles and it gives me some
options here perhaps I want to an outer
glow
if I click outer glow and it tapped
there the current color is blue which is
not what I want
so it may be a black
now black is a hex code all zeros so I
can change that to black and that's got
a black outer glow and you can then feel
around with opacity
and the hardness size
and if you don't like that one why don't
you try out a glow but perhaps we'll try
it drop the shadow
and that's again hit the drop shadow
it's it's black change the color
but you can also change the angle so
I'll move that move it that way so it
actually looks three-dimensional that
way
or this way
and then the distance and the size so
maybe they wanted a bit closer
pasady and then okay so it's starting to
look a little better I can move it
around as long as I'm on that text layer
and I hit the move tool I should be able
to move that around so I can experiment
with where I want that to go think I'll
keep it there
and then save your image so save bingo
and there's the finished image combined
the dingo with a LaRue and added some
text using layer masks that's all for
now