Three Masking Techniques By Rafid Khan

                                                            Three Masking Techniques

                                                                        By Rafid Khan

                                                            

                                                                      Composition #1

                                      

This is my Composition #1 of the Three Masking Techniques. In this composition, I used a masked object to duplicate several times. In this case, I used the masked object object to duplicate. By the way, these pictures were taken by me. So first, I downloaded these two pictures and opened them on Adobe Photoshop. These two pictures is a tree and another picture is from Roosevelt Island. At first, I opened them into a separate files in order to work on the tree.  I used the magnetic lasso to outline the tree and separate the tree from it's background. Once I did that, I copy/paste the tree & it's layer into my Roosevelt Island picture, and then I aligned/scale the tree where I wanted it to be. I then opened the masked object for the tree in order to use the the brush tool (press X for the original background) to remove any additional background from the tree file in order to make the Roosevelt Island picture visible behind the tree. It took a long process to try my hardest on removing the any additional background from the previous file and not accidentally get rid of any parts of the tree. Once I was done getting rid of any additional background. I copied and paste the trees 3 times and then scaled it smaller while lining up the trees. Basically, I made the second tree smaller than the first tree, made the third tree smaller than the second tree and so on. Afterwards I lined them up and it seems I did a decent job on lining up the tree. Overall, I think I did alright in this composition, I would rate this work a probably 9/10. 

Composition #2

This is my Composition #2 and this composition, I used a mask to partially reveal an image in a lower layer. So here's how I did it, I used two pictures taken by me where I used one picture from the Roosevelt Island (the river one) and another picture of a railroad from the Long Island City Area. Well, I put both picture into one file, I then masked the railroad picture. After that, I used the brush tool (press X for original color) in order to erase the railroad and reveal the water. I had to carefully make it accurate and lined up well. I didn't fully showed the water but rather partially because I thought of keeping the railroad on the edge of the railroad picture would be a good idea as it may promote a creativity of the train possibly riding next to the railroad. Due to that, I think I made the right decision of keeping the railroad as it creates a perfection. Without it, I think the design will just look bland and basic. Overall, I think I did good on this composition 2 I guess, I would rate this design a 7/10.

Composition #3

This is my Composition #3 and I made a mask from a selection and composites it on another file. I used two pictures, the one was picture of the Walmart parking lot and another picture of a moon. So I put these pictures into a file. So I used the Magnetic Lasso Tool to outline the moon from it's background and then I added the mask object to it. That just basically got rid of the background and kept the moon due to the Magnetic Lasso Tool. I then align and scaled the moon into the upper right corner. I thought the moon would fit the Walmart parking lot picture because of how bright the Walmart parking lot picture is. So I thought putting the moon into the picture would make sense of the brightness. 

Conclusion:

how masking fits into a Non-Destructive Image Editing routine?

Masking fits into a Non-Destructive Image Editing routine especially in Photoshop because when you fit the mask into the non-destructive editing, you're creating a layer in order to hide or reveal it a piece of an image. This creates a control of the transparency of the layer's attachment. You can also create various edits with mask and create changes while not making any changes in the original image itself. Where it creates a precise necessary edits to your highly-intended detail image where it can make it more strengthening and considering.