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Duplicating and masking entire groups

Duplicating and masking entire groups - Photoshop Tutorial

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Duplicating and masking entire groups

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- [Instructor] All right, I want to show you how I completed the entire composition. So for those of you who are interested, I'm going to take moment out to show you something that has nothing to do with the Pen tool or Vector Masks, and everything to do with masking entire groups at a time. It will allow us to create these clones of our main character. And so because we intend to duplicate in scale these letters you might naturally assume that we need to convert the layers to a Smart Object. But notice if I select the Isolator, and then Shift + Click on this bottommost baby head layer, and then right-click inside the image window, and choose Convert to Smart Object, that we once again see that beige background from the original photograph. And that's because Blend modes do not traverse Smart Objects. And so that Overlay mode, which is at the back of the stack, is trapped inside the Smart Object. Now we could change the Blend mode for the entire Smart Object to Overlay, but that would…

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