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Masking and shading transitions

Masking and shading transitions - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking and shading transitions

In this exercise we are going to bring back the shoulder for the forward model, which is model-2 here, the model-2 layer. And we are going to do so using a combination of the Pen and Smudge tools. So assuming that you feel fairly comfortable with the pen tool after Chapter 27, then I would like you to go ahead and select it by pressing the P key. Or you can click the pen tool icon here inside the toolbox, and I am going to switch over to the Paths panel. And then I am going to create a new path by Alt+Clicking or Option+Clicking on the little page icon at the bottom of the panel. And let's go ahead and call this new path Shoulder, and I will click OK. So we are just naming it before we draw it. And then I will zoom-in to the 100% view size, so I can sort of see what I am doing here. I am going to switch back to Layers panel and turn-off the model-1 layer for moment, so that I can see model-2's shoulder. And I have to tell you I am not necessarily going to do the best job of selecting…

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