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Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths

Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals

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Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths

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In this exercise, I am going to show you how those selection calculations that we saw I applied to selections, also may be applied to layers, layer masks, channels and paths. Now I'm going to be throwing a lot of keyboard shortcuts at you. These are very useful shortcuts indeed, I don't expect you to memorize them right now and I'm not even going to really contextualize them. I am just going to fly them by you, so that you know that they are there. We will be seeing them repeated over and over again throughout these Masking and Compositing courses. But for now, I just want to make you aware of their existence. Now as you recall, you press the Shift key to add to your selection, you press Alt or Option to subtract, and you press Shift+Alt or Shift+Option to find the intersection. You do those exact same things with layers, layer masks, channels and path outlines except you add one more key, and that's the Ctrl key on the PC or the Command key on a Mac. So let me show you how it works…

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