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Adding the primary figure

Adding the primary figure - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding the primary figure

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- [Instructor] All right, it's time to add the leading actor or the leading element on my stage that we just created, and that would be this tree layer, so I'll target it in the Layers panel, and also make it visible by clicking on the eye icon. Now I don't know how you want to select this. The easiest way I thought of selecting it was probably using either the Object Select tool or the Quick Select tool, but unfortunately both of these tools, when I drag over the tree, they actually don't quite grasp it the way I was hoping that they would. So I'm going to deselect that, and because it is a hard-edged object, there's no hair or fur on this, I actually would spend the time and I would use the Pen tool to outline it. Now, I've covered the Pen tool in detail in the Essential Training for Design course, so if you don't know how to use the Pen tool, be sure to check out those chapters. And I'll just give a brief…

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