From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths
In this exercise, I am going to show you how those selection calculations that we saw I applied to selections, also may be applied to layers, layer masks, channels and paths. Now I'm going to be throwing a lot of keyboard shortcuts at you. These are very useful shortcuts indeed, I don't expect you to memorize them right now and I'm not even going to really contextualize them. I am just going to fly them by you, so that you know that they are there. We will be seeing them repeated over and over again throughout these Masking and Compositing courses. But for now, I just want to make you aware of their existence. Now as you recall, you press the Shift key to add to your selection, you press Alt or Option to subtract, and you press Shift+Alt or Shift+Option to find the intersection. You do those exact same things with layers, layer masks, channels and path outlines except you add one more key, and that's the Ctrl key on the PC or the Command key on a Mac. So let me show you how it works…
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Introducing "selection calculations"4m 19s
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Combining two different tools7m 29s
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Selections and transparency masks5m 17s
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Selecting an eye7m 1s
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Masking and blending a texture into skin5m 1s
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Painting a texture into an eye4m 19s
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Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths4m 54s
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Moving selection outlines vs. selected pixels5m 36s
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Transforming and warping a selection outline7m 45s
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Pasting an image inside a selection7m 26s
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Adding volumetric shadows and highlights6m 54s
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Converting an image into a mask4m 42s
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Selections reign supreme56s
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