TK Friday (Gradient Mask Interfaces) Deep Dive

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Today on The Joy of Editing with Dave Kelly, we’re doing a TK Friday Deep Dive into the Layer Mask Interfaces in TK9.
In this tutorial, we’ll take a close look at two powerful TK9 interfaces:
First, we’ll explore the Gradient Mask Interface, where you can create custom gradients and output them directly to adjustment layers as masks. This opens up a very precise and creative way to control where your adjustments appear in the image.
Then we’ll move into the Layer Mask Interface, which gives you a visual and flexible way to refine, adjust, and work with layer masks directly inside Photoshop.
These tools are all about giving you more control, better targeting, and a smoother masking workflow when editing in Photoshop with TK9.

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I’ve also included Dropbox links below for the PDF notes, so you can follow along and try these techniques on your own images.

Thanks for joining me today, and until next time, Happy Editing!

PDF Notes Dropbox LINK: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/bhbff70lfi007sq3nadja/TK-Friday-Gradient-Mask-Interfaces-Deep-Dive.pdf?rlkey=mdkzyf7a5zki769hsu02gr5xk&dl=0

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