alpha skills - free tutorials around selections, masks and other digital disasters

Alpha Skills
free tutorials on the topic of selections,
masks and other digital disasters

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If you've never worked with digital imaging or painting tools, you may be totally new to this, and we recommend you take it one lesson at a time, starting with the first. Some basic Dogwaffle knowledge is useful. Do you know where your primary and secondary colors are? Do you know how to jump to the Swap buffer? that sort of things.

Lesson 1 - selecting a simple image (few colors) to turn it into a custom brush
Lesson 2 - a first look at multiple selections (using Shift-click) and hand-crafting a multi-frame animated brush
Lesson 3 - selecting multiple regions with SHIFT key, using Left mouse button to add to the selection, or right mouse button to subtract from the current selection
Lesson 4 - It's practice time! Another little project where SHIFT-click with the magic wand comes in handy to reverse-engineer a logo into its original components, separating it from a complex background.
Lesson 5 - The Lasso tool
Lesson 6 - Rectangle and Oval to Alpha selections
Lesson 7 - Support Mount Wilson Observatory.
Lesson 8 - new! to skin an apple

other tutorials related to Alpha channels:

alpha bush
shading tutorial
Cryptonite (compositing with animated alpha masks)
dark snow
the Alpha fader
post work on animations (with alpha fader)
learning to use the alpha channel (see bottom of main tutes page)
more playing with the alpha channel (see bottom of main tutes page)

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