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The fastest way to save a selection

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The fastest way to save a selection

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- [Instructor] Alright at this point, we've done a ton of work. The problem is we haven't saved any of our work and that's always a dangerous thing, but it's borderline insanity when you've spent several minutes creating a selection outline because this is not the kind-of stuff that you want to have to do again. So my rule of thumb is if you spend more than five minutes doing anything inside Photoshop, you ought to save it. Now you may recall from the previous chapter that one way to save a selection is to go up to the Select menu and choose the Save Selection command. When you do, you're going to generate a new channel here inside the Channels panel, but if only for the sake of variety I'll show you an easier way to work. I'll just go ahead and cancel out of that dialog box. The easier way to save a selection is to go to the Channels panel and then click on this icon down here at the bottom; the one that says Save Selection as Channel and when you do, Photoshop will go ahead and…

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