Street Dance Illustration

Here’s how the image looks like with the contemporary pattern added. Next, we’ll add a layer mask to it to help visually connect the foreground with the background.

Step 19 – Create a mask for the contemporary pattern

With the contemporary pattern layer selected, click on the button in the layers palette to add a layer mask.

Load the selection from the gradient fill layer mask. Hold the Ctrl key and click on the layer mask thumbnail of the gradient fill layer. Choose Select > Inverse to inverse the selection.

Ensure that you have the layer mask of the contemporary pattern layer selected. It should have a white border around it to indicate that it is active. Press delete to clear the selected area then press Ctrl+D to deselect. Your layer mask should look like the image below.