{"id":16231,"date":"2010-02-16T09:22:28","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T09:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2010\/02\/now-that-is-a-true-photoshop-feathered-mask.html"},"modified":"2010-02-16T09:22:28","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T09:22:28","slug":"now_that_is_a_true_photoshop_feathered_mas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/02\/16\/now_that_is_a_true_photoshop_feathered_mas\/","title":{"rendered":"Now *THAT* is a true Photoshop feathered mask"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a <a href=\"http:\/\/twitpic.com\/113k4j\">Photoshop-box-as-mask photo<\/a>* I posted recently, artist <a href=\"http:\/\/www.phillipvaldez.com\">Phillip Valedez<\/a> worked with Adobe creative director Russell Brown to create a rather terrific &#8220;feathered mask,&#8221; using only Photoshop CS4 boxes:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/mask-2040.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/mask-thumb-425x233-2040.jpg\" width=\"425\" height=\"233\" alt=\"mask.jpg\" class=\"mt-image-none\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n(Click for a <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/assets_c\/2010\/02\/mask-2040.html\">larger view<\/a>.)<br \/>\nFeathered selections\/masks, incidentally, were one of the killer features of the original Photoshop&#8211;released 20 years ago this week!<br \/>\nHere&#8217;s a quick time lapse of Phillip at work:<br \/>\n<object width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/r4Razj2YU98&amp;hl=en_US&amp;fs=1&amp;\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"425\" height=\"295\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n<em>* Sorry that I can&#8217;t give the original creator credit, as the photo came to me without attribution.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Inspired by a Photoshop-box-as-mask photo* I posted recently, artist Phillip Valedez worked with Adobe creative director Russell Brown to create a rather terrific &#8220;feathered mask,&#8221; using only Photoshop CS4 boxes: (Click for a larger view.) Feathered selections\/masks, incidentally, were one of the killer features of the original Photoshop&#8211;released 20 years ago this week! Here&#8217;s a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16231"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16231\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16231"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16231"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16231"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}