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Adding the boat

Adding the boat

- All right, so now it's time to add the boat. So in the Layers panel, i will click on the boat layer, and also make it visible. Now we need to select the boat and there's a variety of different ways we can do this. First of all, I'm going to zoom in using Command + just so that we can see the boat a little bit better. And then, I can try drawing around the boat if I wanted to, but I think I might have a better chance with Quick Select. So with the Quick Select tool, I will click and drag over the boat. This is obviously the area that I want selected, but it does seem to jump too far. But that's OK because if I hold down my Option key, I can then click in the area that I don't want it to select and it should remove that area. Sometimes it's a balancing act between adding areas back in that you want and then removing the areas that you don't. So again, just painting with the Quick Select will continue to add and you can see there's the little "+" icon there. If I want it to subtract, I…

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