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Filter Factory Tactical Masking - part 4 of 1 2 3 4 5 6

by Mike McNamee Published

5. Click Image>Calculations then set the outcome to New Channel and the Blending to Multiply.
6. Click on the new channel (Alpha 1) the hit Ctrl-L to bring up the Levels and pinch the setting so that they read 22/1.00/161. This has the effect of strengthening the contrast and further isolating the bright spots.
7. Load the channel Alpha 1 by Ctrl-clicking it to produce marching ants.

8. In the Layers Palette click New Fill layer (the diagonal black /white circle), then select Pattern, then choose your recently made skin pattern from the drop down. A new layer will not appear on your layers palette, flesh coloured complete with a mask which looks like your modified blue channel. Your model's eyes are likely to be flesh coloured - do not panic yet!
9. In the Layers Palette, create a New Group, then push the skin pattern layer into it.
10. Click on Group 1 to make it active then Alt-click the Add a Layer Mask icon. Your effects all vanish as the black layer mask hides all. It looks like this.

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