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Using Photoshop with Image Trace

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Using Photoshop with Image Trace

- [Instructor] So I want to do something to help me with the background that I've got in the image just here, because I'm going to expand this out to paths, but what I want to do is try and avoid having to deal with that white background. Here's a quick tip to get a Photoshop file into Photoshop without going up and choosing the options to return to the link. All you need to do is hold down the ALT or OPTION key and double-click on it, and that takes it straight out to Photoshop like so. So there's two things I would do here. Firstly, what I would do is go to the new layer icon at the bottom of the layers panel, hold down the Command key or the CTRL key, and click. That adds a new layer underneath the current layer. I would then add a color to that that isn't present in the image, or at least around the outside. So that's quite safe to say there is no green, okay, around the sides there, so I'm going to fill that by…

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