Teach Me Tuesday: Digital Masking Tutorials!
Today for Teach Me Tuesday, two of our resident digital artists are going to be showing off two different ways you can use digital product to create masks!
Masks are an oft-underrepresented tool in the digital toolbox and so we wanted to show you two fun and easy ways that you can incorporate them into your next layout and add a little digital mixed media to your pages!
Cheryl - DIY-ing Your Own Photo or Paper Mask with Stamps
Tutorial Video
Open the stamps and/or digital paint and embellishments you want to use to create your mask. Get creative with shapes and textures!
Layer them on top of each other however you like, making sure that they fit together nicely and you don’t lose visibility on words/shapes you want to be visible in your mask.
Select all layers and duplicate, then merge them.
Hide or delete original layers.
Add a black color overlay to your merged element blob.
You can now clip your papers or photos to the photo mask you made or used it as a layer mask as well!
Full Credits: On The Go & Going Slow, Keep Chasing Rainbows, Filled With Intention, #Foodie
Trish - Masking Digital Paint with Stencils
The second way we will be learning about masking today is digitally “painting” through stencils with Trish! I love that in paper scrapbooking, the pursuit of the perfect stenciled image is a never-ending quest, but in digital scrapbooking, we are constantly “messing things up” to make them more realistic!
Trish is going to show us how she used the Candy Coated Christmas stencils to create those fabulously messy painted stars on her layout!
Tutorial Video
Step-by-Step Instructions
Open your stencil and place it on your page. It it is opaque, it will be helpful to lower the opacity.
Making sure the stencil layer is selected, use the Magic Wand tool and select the areas inside of the stencil that you want to use.
Holding down the shift key as you click allows you to select multiple areas at once.
Create a new layer above your stencil
Select the color you plan to use for your “paint”
Using the brushes of your choice, “paint” inside the selected areas to fill the stencil. Trish used “Kyle’s Spatter Brushes - Supreme Spatter” offered free through the Adobe Website
To make the paint more realistic, use the brushes multiple times at different opacities to create a layered look.
Repeat the process in more places across your page if desired, moving the stencil just like you would IRL.
For extra realism, when you’re done using the stencil, use the same spatter brushes and/or other brushes without the stencil mask around the stenciled design you created for a messy “overspray” effect.
If you need to adjust specific areas after painting, you can duplicate specific portions using tor magnetic or lasso tool and hitting cmd (ctrl) + j to duplicate that area and make it it’s own layer.
Full Credits: Harvest Moon Collection + Candy Coated Christmas Stencils