From the course: SketchUp: Concept Drawings with Photoshop

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Import into Photoshop

Import into Photoshop

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Import into Photoshop

- [Instructor] I've moved into Photoshop, and I've opened up one of the many files that I've exported. Now, I'm starting with BeautyLayer.png. Now, this is a PNG file, so it does have an alpha channel, and you can see that by this checkerboard pattern here. This is really where the alpha channel kind of shows that there's nothing behind this building. Now, what we're going to do is just start to import layers and start to work with the image in Photoshop. So in order to import a layer, I simply need to open the file and then cut and paste that image into this master. So I'm going to go File, Open, and in this case, I'm going to start off with that Color Select layer. So I'm going to go ahead and open that. Now, this comes in as a separate file. But I can do a Select All, and then just do Edit Copy, and then paste that into this image. And if I got everything right, they should overlap exactly, and they do. Now, in this case, I want this layer to either be at the very top or the very…

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