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Turning a path into a vector-based mask

Turning a path into a vector-based mask

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Turning a path into a vector-based mask

- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you how to take a path outline, and turn it into a vector-based layer mask. And so the idea is that each and every layer can contain two layer masks, one pixel-based layer mask, and another vector-based mask. And we're going to use this technique in order to mask the ball onto itself, in order to achieve this more richly-colored effect. And you can see those two balls right now. So there's the shadow ball, the one that's set to the Multiply blend mode, and here's the ball set to the Normal mode inside of a vector-based layer mask. Alright, so I'll go ahead and switch over to my document so far. I'll click on the volleyball layer to make it active, and then I'll create a copy of it. And in Photoshop, you do that by jumping the layer, by pressing Control + J, or Command + J on a Mac. And that happens to be by far the easiest way to work, but if you want to name your new layer as you're creating it, then you press Control + Alt + J, or Command +…

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