From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Moving a selection into a new background - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Moving a selection into a new background
In this exercise, I'm going to show you a few different ways to take a selected image and move it into a new background. Now, I'm assuming that you've got a selected shark sitting right there in front of you, but if not I've gone ahead and saved out my selection as an alpha channel called shark mask inside this file called Masked shark.tif. Now one way to move the shark would be to go up to the Edit menu and choose the Copy command or press Ctrl+C, Command+ C on the Mac, and then you would switch over to your background image which in my case is called Clouds and grass.psd, and then you would go back to the Edit menu and choose the Paste command or press Ctrl+V or Command+V on the Mac. Now, the good news is Photoshop just added a new layer to the Layers panel here, which means I can hide the layer if I want to, I can turn it back on, I can change its opacity and so forth. I can even move it around if I want to by Ctrl+dragging or Command+dragging on the Mac. However, the problem is…
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Introducing the Color Range command5m 59s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box7m 7s
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Primary colors and luminance ranges4m 12s
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A terrific use for Color Range4m 57s
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Introducing the Quick Mask mode7m 43s
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Moving a selection into a new background5m 43s
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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners8m 43s
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Integrating foreground and background4m 44s
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Creating a cast shadow from a layer2m 51s
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Releasing and masking layer effects3m 11s
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect4m 30s
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Masking and compositing your rainbow4m 46s
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The best selection tools are commands1m 5s
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