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Clipping and compositing tricks

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Clipping and compositing tricks

In this exercise, we are going to finish off the composition, using a clipping mask as well as a handful of other compositing tricks. I have saved my progress as more flexible glassware.psd, found inside the 09_layermask folder. So I was reviewing the composition figure and you know what, I want these highlights to be brighter, but I want them to be in exactly the same shape they appear here inside the layer Mask. So to do that you need to load up the layer mask as a selection, by Ctrl+Clicking on it or Command+ Clicking on that layer mask thumbnail, the one associate with the Knockout layer, they're inside Layers panel. And that goes ahead and selects the white area and deselect the black area of the mask. So we need to reverse the selection, by going up to the Select menu and choosing the Inverse command are pressing Ctrl+ Shift+I or Command+Shift+I on the Mac. Now drop down to the soft light layer right there and press Ctrl+Shift+N or Command+Shift+N in order to bring up the New…

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