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Placing an image with a layer mask - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CS5 One-on-One: Fundamentals
Placing an image with a layer mask
It is now time to move the Manlysaw into the Ad composition. So make sure that you have Saw with mask .tif open, as well as Ad composite.psd. And I'm going to perform a drag and drop like so. I'm going to press and hold the Ctrl key or the Command key on the Mac and I'm going to drag the selected Saw up to the title tab, wait for the image to switch, then drag back down into the composition like so. Add the Shift key, so that both Ctrl and Shift are down or Command and Shift on the Mac and release in order to exactly register the hand and Saw into place. So that it's appearing at the desired position. Now things look pretty darn good. I would say it looks fairly at home here, but we do have some edge artifacts. If you zoom-in to your image, you are going to see these edge artifacts tracing around the image. This is pretty common when you're using the selection tools. Basically, what happens is two things. first of all a foreground always has some memory of what its former background…
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Photoshop versus the real world1m 21s
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Meet the selection tools10m 26s
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Marking the center of an image4m 9s
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Drawing a geometric selection outline4m 45s
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Blurring a selection outline with Feather6m 8s
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Copy and paste versus drag and drop5m 31s
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Creating a graduated selection4m 29s
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Aligning one image with another4m 45s
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Accessing the Move tool on the fly3m 34s
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Invert and Match Colors5m 4s
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Matching colors selectively3m 52s
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Feathering and filling a selection5m 14s
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Dressing up a composition with effects5m 34s
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The incredible image rotation trick2m 18s
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The Magic Wand tool4m 12s
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Tolerance and other options7m 7s
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Grow, Similar, and Inverse5m 39s
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Quick selection and the Magnetic Lasso7m 27s
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Evaluating a selection in Quick Mask8m 52s
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Saving and loading selections6m 14s
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Placing an image with a layer mask3m 22s
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Eliminating edge fringing7m 43s
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