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Better work with layers

Better work with layers

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Better work with layers

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- [Chris] Hello, my name is Chris and welcome to Photo Tools Weekly. In this week's episode, we are in Photoshop. And here I want to share with you some tips for working with layers and also creating what are called layer clipping masks. We'll be working with two different documents, so let's start off with this one on the left. Here I'll press F to go to Full Screen Mode. Now in case you missed it last week, we worked with this document, we talked about some introductory and some advanced masking tips. Well here I want to continue with the document, but this time talk about how we can select layers. So let's say that we want to rearrange things. Well we know that we can click on a layer and then click and drag a layer over to another area. And then if we want to choose the layer underneath it, we could click on that one and then move it over in this way. Yet there has to be a faster way, right? Well one of the methods that we can use is to hold down the Command key on a Mac, Control…

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