Video Tutorials
Stop Masking Everything: How Layer Blending Modes Can Do the Heavy Lifting
There’s a specific kind of frustration that hits when you spend forty-five minutes painstakingly masking around wisps of smoke or fog, and the result still looks like you cut it out with safety scissors. I’ve been there more times than I’d like to admit. Smoke, steam, fog, fire – any texture with soft, semi-transparent edges – is a nightmare to mask cleanly. Which is why the moment I watched Aaron Nace walk through his steam-from-ears composite, I felt that specific mix of relief and mild annoyance that comes from learning something you wish you’d known years ago.