Faking A Layer Mask In Photoshop Elements

Faking A Layer Mask In Photoshop Elements

Adobe gave Photoshop Elements very limited support for layer masks. In fact, officially, we can only use them with Adjustment Layers. Fortunately, not only are Adjustment Layers incredibly useful, but it's a little-known fact that they also happen to be pretty easy going, and as we see in this tutorial, they have no problem sharing their layer mask with any other layer that needs it!

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