contingent. 1  dependent for existence, occurrence, character, etc., on something not yet certain; conditional (often followed by on or upon): Our plans are contingent on the weather. 2  liable to happen or not; uncertain; possible: They had to plan for contingent expenses.
Get a brush. Face masks are best applied with a soft-bristle brush, such as a paintbrush (normally used for art making) or a tint brush (normally used to apply hair dye). Invest in a brush that you will use for this purpose, and be sure to clean it when you are done.
Step 4. A handy tip when working with masks in Photoshop is to use a containing group layer instead of applying the mask directly to the object layer. This gives you more freedom to change the contents of the group without needing to reapply the mask.So hit CMD+G (Mac) or CTRL+G (Win) to group the skull layer.tep 2. Next we need an object to apply the mask to, I decided to grab this cool skull from the Free Vector Zombie Icons set on Medialoot. When you have the graphic or text that you want to use, drop it into your Photoshop document as either a Vector Smart Object or Shape Layer and resize to fit.