Masking

Masks are a useful tool in Photoshop. What a mask does is isolates a certain section and any changes made to the image will only take place in the masked area. In this image, Jason created a mask of the butterfly. He then inverted the mask so everything except for the butterfly could be altered. He then used different types of filters and blending modes to change the background. A mask of the butterfly's shadow was also made and a landscape image used to replace the shadow. Both images are included to show the before and after effects of using masks in Photoshop.

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