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Merging two layers into one - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop One-on-One: Fundamentals
Merging two layers into one
- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to add a couple of screws, one for the shark sigh, and then we're going to replace the one in the bottom right corner with the original one, 'cause the one we have now looks wrong. And along the way I'll show you how to merge two layers into one so that both of the screws are on the same layer. All right, so go ahead and switch over to my image and progress, and let me show you what I mean, notice that this screw is kind of jabbing out into the right whereas the original screw is a little more flush on which is the way it really looks. And so I'd like to restore that guy. And then of course I want to add another screw for the shark sigh. And so I'm going to switch to the image layer to make it active. And then I'll go ahead and switch over to my object selection tool, this time around, I want the behavior to be set to rectangle up here, in the options bar, after which point I'll go…
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The layered composition1m 42s
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Introducing the Layers panel5m 18s
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Converting the flat Background to a layer4m 54s
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Jumping an image onto a new layer3m 28s
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Flipping and scaling a layer2m 53s
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Adding a vector-based layer2m 11s
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Creating a basic layer mask6m 15s
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Clipping one layer inside another4m 3s
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Merging two layers into one4m 58s
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Auto Select and the Move tool3m 41s
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Inverting a layer mask4m 51s
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Adding depth with layer effects4m 9s
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Softening a mask with Feather2m 47s
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Three ways to copy and paste layers4m 54s
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Auto-zooming one or more layers2m 38s
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