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Working with clipping-mask layers

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Working with clipping-mask layers

I have saved my progress as Masked eyes.psd. And so far we've done a terrific job of copying and scaling these irises and masking them inside the eyes. However, it all looks pretty painful at this point. And we don't want it to look like she has got these strange shells in her eyes. We want the real Na'vi eyes, these beautiful, glowing, all-knowing peaceful eyes of the wonderfully superior Na'vi people. I'll switch back here, to the Masked eyes image. What we're going to do is build up a series of layers, all of which are very simple to create, but they blend together to create more volumetric eyes that look like they are more at home and more at peace inside the creature. So I am going to scroll down my layers and I am going to turn on the blue group here, so that we have a better sense of where we're going. Then I'll scroll back up so that we can see these layers inside of the eye layers folder. And I am going to turn on this layer right here, overlays, and I am going to click on it…

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