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Moving selection outlines vs. selected pixels

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Moving selection outlines vs. selected pixels

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In this next project, we're going to take this photograph of this crazy guy and we're going to paste him inside of this egg, and the net result will be this photorealistic composition. Now even though this is a kooky project there is a lot of information to be learned from these next few exercises, so definitely stick with me here. We're going to start things off by selecting this egg. Now the natural approach, because it's a smooth outline and it's obviously not any of the shapes that we've seen so far, the natural approach would be to get the Pen tool, and the Pen tool is astoundingly powerful, so powerful that I'll be devoting an entire course on this series to the pen. However, we don't need to resort to the pen where this egg is concerned, because it's fundamentally an elliptical form. So we can start with an Elliptical Marquee and then distort it to exactly fit the contours of this shape. Once you come to recognize just how many different natural objects are fundamentally…

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