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Saving a selection as a layer mask

Saving a selection as a layer mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Saving a selection as a layer mask

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- [Narrator] In this movie, we'll begin work on our first full-on masking project, in which we take these two photographs from the dreamstime image library, and we're gonna combine them together in order to create this cartoon-style composition right here, in which this guy literally has lasers blasting out of his eyes. And after all, who wouldn't want that. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch back to this image right here. I'll turn on that screamer layer, I'll select the dreamstime layer and press the backspace key or the delete key on the Mac to get rid of it and then I'll click on the screamer layer to select it. Now what we want to do is mask away his background. And so the easiest way to do that is to select the background using an automated selection tool, meaning either the quick selection tool or the magic wand. Now most people tend to turn to the quick selection tool first, it is after all the tool that Adobe has marketed most heavily. Thing is, it doesn't really have any…

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