From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Loading a selection from a layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Loading a selection from a layer
In this exercise we're going to create the effect of hot rays blasting out of this guy's eyes, using our Front and Rear alpha channels along with the Radial Blur Filter. I've saved my progress as Glowing eyes. psd and I'm going to switchover to the Channels panel, and scroll down a little bit and Ctrl+Click or Command+Click on that front channel, in order to load it as a selection outline. Now let's switch back to the Layers panel and press Ctrl+Alt+J or Command+Option+J on the Mac, that keyboard shortcut that allows us to jump the contents of the layer and name the new layer at the same time. And I'll go ahead and call this layer front and click OK in order to create that new layer. Now ideally what we do at this point is go up to the Filter menu choose the Blur command and then choose Radial Blur, which allows you to either spin the image or zoom it, and we would switch to zoom, and then we crank the amount value up to 100, but here's the problem, how do we set the center point of…
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The origins of the alpha channel3m 40s
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How a mask works7m 10s
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Making an alpha channel4m 2s
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Using the new channel icons6m 27s
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Saving an image with alpha channels4m 23s
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Loading a selection from a channel4m 7s
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Putting a mask into play3m 55s
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Loading a selection from a layer4m 27s
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Loading a selection from another image4m 36s
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The alpha channel is home to the mask1m 40s
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