Chapter 3. Layer Masks Adjustment Layers

Chapter 3. Layer Masks & Adjustment Layers

You're probably wondering why layer masks and adjustment layers are being covered in a book on channels. And if you weren't, perhaps you are now? See, that's the power of the written word it can take you to places you've never been, uncover mysterious new worlds, and expose you to harmful emissions that are normally reserved for visiting foreign dignitaries. That aside, there is a legitimate reason for including both layer masks and adjustment layers in this book (and it's not the fact that both have channel-like masks attached to them, if that's what you were thinking). Actually, I added it to make my publisher crazy. You see, before you write a book like this, you have to swear to your publisher, in a blood oath, that you won't write more pages than you originally agreed to (I agreed to 200 pages, tops). The reason is that paper costs have skyrocketed for the past six years, so to guard against future cost increases, publishers buy enough paper now to lock in a price for the initial print run (37 copies) at exactly 200 pages per copy. Well, once they do that, I feel (due to power issues all authors share) that I must turn in the book with at least 50 more pages than I swore in blood that I would. It's little things like this that give us authors the strength to carry on.