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Select All, Copy Merged

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Select All, Copy Merged

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- [Instructor] In this movie, we're going to copy our logo, and we're going to paste it and blend it with our composition so far in order to ultimately create this final effect. And so notice if I were to go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command, and then switch to my composition, return to the Edit menu and choose the Paste command, and I would do so as opposed to choosing Paste in Place because the two images are very different sizes. But if I were to choose either, I'm just going to end up with the contents of that whiteout layer. What I want to do instead is copy the entire logo, and you do that by first pressing Control + Z, or Command + Z on a Mac, which is the standard keyboard shortcut for undoing operations inside Photoshop. And then I'll go ahead and switch back to my logo. And this is a two step operation by the way, but first thing you have to do is go up to the Select menu and choose the All command…

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