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Charms and medallions in Photoshop: Adding a third dimension

Charms and medallions in Photoshop: Adding a third dimension

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Charms and medallions in Photoshop: Adding a third dimension

So now this week we're going to put our little medallion into the third dimension. The first thing I'm going to do is I'm going to go down here and take my Background I'm going to invert it. Just going to hit Cmd + I, convert it to black. All right so there we go. So now see our little medallion. So what I'm going to do is I'm going to take the little medallion. Let's turn off the Background and we see our little medallion in place. And what I'm going to do now is I'm going to turn it all into one Layer. So I'm going to put this guy at the top and if I go here and say Merge Visible it's going to go in there just merge them all together. Undo that. I want to keep all my Layers in tact just in case I want to make changes or do something else to them. So I'm going to hold down my Option key. Which is Alt on the pc, and I'm going to choose that same Cmd, Merge Visible, and now you'll see what happened is that it created a totally separate Layer, up on top here, that is compositable of all…

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