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Using a shape layer as a clipping mask

Using a shape layer as a clipping mask

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Using a shape layer as a clipping mask

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'll show you to how to use a shape layer as a clipping mask. And specifically, we'll be using this slightly angled ellipse to create this strangely glowing hole. And so I'll start off inside of the image from the last movie, and I'll go ahead and zoom in as well. And I'll drop down to the shape tool fly out menu and select the ellipse tool from the fly out menu. And now I'll go ahead and draw an ellipse that approximately covers this portion of the neck. Now you don't have to get it exactly right, because, after all, we have to rotate it and scale it into position. So just to make it easy to see, I'm going to change the fill, up here in the options bar, to red, like so. If you're working in Photoshop CS6 or earlier, then double click on the thumbnail for your shape layer, and then dial in red here inside the color picker. Anyway, I'm going to go ahead and zoom out. And then what you want to do is switch back to the rectangular marquee tool, which you can…

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