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Pasting an image inside a selection

Pasting an image inside a selection - Photoshop Tutorial

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Pasting an image inside a selection

In this exercise, we're going to paste the guy's head into the selected egg, and then we're going to distort his head, once again using a combination of Free Transform and that Warp mode just as we did the selection outline. I've saved off a version of this image called Egg masks.psd found inside the 05_combine folder, and the reason is if you go over to the Channels panel, you'll see that I went ahead and saved my current selection outline as the new egg and my previous one as the old egg, because what I found is they both have slight problems, and they both cut ever so slightly into the edge of the egg, and I don't want that. So what I am going to do? And you may want to do this as well if you want to get exactly the same result, is I went ahead and Ctrl+Clicked or Command+Clicked on the channel called the new egg in order to load it up as the selection outline, and then I added the old egg by Ctrl+Shift+Clicking on it, or Command+Shift+Clicking on the Mac. All right. Now, let's…

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