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Duplicating and masking entire groups - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Duplicating and masking entire groups
- [Instructor] All right, I want to show you how I completed the entire composition. So for those of you who are interested, I'm going to take moment out to show you something that has nothing to do with the Pen tool or Vector Masks, and everything to do with masking entire groups at a time. It will allow us to create these clones of our main character. And so because we intend to duplicate in scale these letters you might naturally assume that we need to convert the layers to a Smart Object. But notice if I select the Isolator, and then Shift + Click on this bottommost baby head layer, and then right-click inside the image window, and choose Convert to Smart Object, that we once again see that beige background from the original photograph. And that's because Blend modes do not traverse Smart Objects. And so that Overlay mode, which is at the back of the stack, is trapped inside the Smart Object. Now we could change the Blend mode for the entire Smart Object to Overlay, but that would…
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Tracing an image, point-by-point1m 33s
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Introducing the Paths panel5m 38s
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The Freeform and standard Pen tools5m 57s
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Adding and deleting anchor points5m 10s
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Starting a path outline with an ellipse7m 9s
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Drawing smooth and cusp points7m 25s
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Deploying path outlines as a vector mask5m 45s
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Combining a layer mask with a vector mask6m 58s
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Brushing along a path outline8m 8s
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Adding to an existing vector mask7m 59s
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Perfecting hair inside a vector mask6m 9s
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Bolstering hair with an Overlay layer6m 48s
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Drawing perfect eye masks7m 5s
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Duplicating and masking entire groups7m 28s
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Masking with vector-based letterforms3m 48s
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