Darren Whittaker

Perfect, thank you. I hadn't considered applying a mask to a group. Makes me wonder what else I could do with that technique. Thanks again for your courses which I completed some time ago. I now feel like I know what I am doing! My sky replacements are subtle and believable. I have dissected, taken ideas and learned from certain Actions thanks to my understanding of what is going on and I use techniques you have taught on a daily basis - so many game changers! Keep up the good work Cheers - Darren

The problem with graduated masks (Sky replacement) is that there is no way of knowing what opacity a particular area of the mask is, which makes editing problematic. What this means is that it is fine to carefully remove the mask but next to impossible to add it back. I wonder if there is a clever technique to make the opacity of a brush = selected layer mask opacity at any point.