Understanding Layer Mask in Photoshop

In the arena of designing and photo editing, Adobe Photoshop stands out of crowd. It is a versatile designing, layouting, and photo editing software. Whether you are a graphic artist or a video editor learning Adobe Photoshop is the prerequisite. One can create stunning and outstanding compositions by using this amazing application. Today we are going to discuss the layer mask which is one of the significant terms to understand.

Before we start and the directly go to the layer mask, first we need to know in brief that how Photoshop work or we can say what are the things which is required for photoshop working. Photoshop which is an essential application to create designs and edit the images to make the digital world creative.

An Insight to Layer in Photoshop

In the Photoshop application, we always write or make designs on layers with the help of available tools. Layers are used to work on the individual part of an image while not affecting the other parts of the image. This allows us to place/edit the picture on the same page and without affecting the original picture.

What is the Layer Mask?

We always do not want to make adjustment in the entire image so in this case we can use the layer mask. This is a non-destructive technique which provide to edit/ adjust an image without touching the original layer. we generally create a mask layer of the original image and make our changes and adjustments on that. This method is useful when we need to reverse our changes. 
For example, when we use an eraser tool to erase something from the layer and after erasing when we close the image this then we will be not able to recover the portion which we had erased. In the layer mask we can go back at any time and edit/adjust any part of the masked layer. We also can disable the layer mask to see the image in the original stage. 

There are three colour options in the layer mask:

• White:- when the layer mask is white the original layer will be visible.

• Black:- when the layer mask  is black the original layer be not visible.

• Grey:-  when the layer mask is grey the original layer will be transparent.

So, this was a brief introduction to layer mask in Adobe Photoshop. 

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