Three Great Side-Uses for Photoshop MasksLately I've received a couple of notes asking me if there's any other use for Photoshop masks other than opacity painting, so I thought to compile a document that sums up my replies. Let me know if you found this helpful and if you want to see more articles like this (or not) in the future!

So without further ado, here are some great side-uses for Photoshop masks, at least in my opinion:

1. Non-Destructive Erasing

Never use the eraser tool, I cannot stress that enough!

Say that for example you painted a fox girl character and later on you decide that, for whatever reason, you no longer want the tail - a quick and tempting way of getting rid of it would be to use the eraser tool, right? But if you do that then it will be lost forever and there will be no way to get it back! The smart way would be to use a layer mask and clip out the tail - that way later on, when you do realize your foolishness (I mean what kind of fox girl doesn't have a tail, righ