How to Feather Mask in Photoshop

How to Feather Mask in Photoshopの方法について分かりやすく解説します。実践的なガイドをチェックしてください。

Sometimes you only want to feather one side of an image, like when you’re fading the bottom of a landscape into a gradient. That’s when you use the Layer Mask plus a Gradient Tool. Click the mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel, then grab the Gradient Tool. Set your foreground color to black and background to white. Drag from where you want the fade to start to where you want it to end.

The feathering happens automatically. It’s like sweeping a mess under the rug, except the rug gracefully accepts the crumbs. I use this trick for every sky replacement I’ve ever done. It’s so easy, I sometimes do it just for fun—like popping bubble wrap.

How to Create and Use Layer Masks in Photoshop – PHLEARN

The Golden Rule of Moderation

Here’s the part that gets everyone: too much feathering ruins everything. It’s like pouring pepper into your soup—a little adds warmth, a lot makes you cry. A feather of 10 pixels on a 3000-pixel-wide image is barely noticeable. A feather of 100 pixels on a tiny thumbnail makes everything look like it’s made of marshmallow.

I learned this the hard way after ruining a family photo of a reunion. I feathered so hard that my cousin’s shoulders blended into the sky. He looked like a winged angel. Cool, but not what my aunt wanted for her Christmas card.