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Adding clouds to your composition

Adding clouds to your composition - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding clouds to your composition

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to add our clouds to our composition, and the first step is to go ahead and switch to the Rectangular Marquee Tool, which you get by pressing the M key, and then make sure the clouds layer is active and then right-click inside the image window, and choose Duplicate Layer. Then I'll go ahead and change my document to Sky full of stars, which is what I've called my progress file, and I'll click OK. Now I'll go ahead and switch back to that image. Now assuming you selected the mars layer a few movies ago, then the clouds layer is going to appear in front of mars, which is exactly what we want. All right now I'm going to zoom out a little bit. I'm going to zoom out even more actually. I want you to see that this clouds layer is much wider than the canvas. You can confirm that by pressing the Control key, or the Command key on a Mac, and clicking on the thumbnail for that clouds layer. So notice it extends off the right side of the canvas, so in…

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