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Resizing and Layer setup

Resizing and Layer setup - Photoshop Tutorial

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Resizing and Layer setup

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- [Instructor] Here we have our preliminary drawing on top of our color sketch, and we can actually now select our color sketch here, and turn its opacity back to 100% so that we can see the original colors here of our color sketch. And now, if I zoom out, we will see that we've worked in a pretty low scale, and we should scale this up, so that we have more pixels available for our final digital painting. I just select both layers here in the layers palette, the preliminary drawing and the color sketch. Simply by holding Shift, you can make a multiple selection here in the layers palette, and now I go to Edit, Free Transform, and by dragging these little handles here, I can size up my sketch, and if I hold down the Alt key, I can perform the scaling around the center of our composition, and that way I can find the right scaling for my color sketch here. Let's hit Enter. Now, I make a rectangular selection with the Rectangular Marquis tool, framing my complete composition here, because…

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