Duplicating and scaling a vector mask

In this movie, we'll take our nicely masked droplet, and we'll go ahead and give it a soft …shadow that's organic to the original scene, and we'll do so by duplicating, as well as …transforming, and blurring our existing vector mask, and then we'll throw in a pixel-based …layer mask to boot. All right, …so starting where we left off, we'll go ahead, and turn on the shadow layer to make it active, …and that's going to bring back the entirety of that original image. …I'll click on the vector mask thumbnail for the drop layer here inside the Layers panel, …so that I can see my path outline.…

And you can either switch to the black arrow tool, and click on it to select it, or you …can select the entire thing with the white arrow tool by pressing the Alt key, or the …Option key on a Mac, and clicking on that path outline, and that goes ahead and selects the entire thing. …Then go up to the Edit menu, and choose the Copy command, or just press Control+C, or Command+C on the Mac. …Now switch to the shadow layer, and let's go ahead and give it a vector mask in advance …