Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video Duplicating and scaling a vector mask, part of Photoshop CS6 One-on-One: Advanced.
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 …
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9/12/2012- Adjusting the color settings in Photoshop
- Placing and blending Smart Objects in a scene
- Transforming and warping vector objects
- Correcting for lens distortion
- Mitigating halos and enhancing contrast with Shadows/Highlights
- Adding and editing points on a curve
- Editing multiple images in Camera Raw
- Creating a pro-quality sepia tone or quadtone
- Colorizing with blend modes and opacity
- Reducing and smoothing over noise
- Creating depth-of-field effects with blur
- Selecting with Color Range and Quick Mask
- Perfecting a mask with Refine Edge
- Drawing paths with the Pen tool
- Converting path outlines to vector masks
Skill Level Advanced
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23. Shortcuts and Settings
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Welcome to One-on-One2m 15s
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24. Smart Objects
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Creating "true clones"3m 50s
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Smart Objects1m 36s
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25. Shadows/Highlights
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Sharpening on top of blur2m 47s
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26. Using Curves
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Using Curves2m 40s
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27. Camera Raw
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Correcting white balance4m 8s
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Working with archival images7m 54s
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Camera Raw Smart Objects6m 48s
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Camera Raw2m 11s
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28. Duotones and Colorize
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Creating a custom quadtone5m 48s
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Duotones1m 23s
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29. Noise and Detail
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Correcting a noisy photo5m 33s
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Noise vs. Details1m 28s
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30. The Blur Gallery
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Blur Gallery1m 36s
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31. Blend Modes
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Using the Dissolve mode9m 47s
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Screen and the lighten modes8m 10s
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Blending inside blend modes6m 55s
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Blend mode shortcuts6m 21s
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The Fill Opacity Eight8m 57s
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Blend Modes1m 16s
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32. Color Range and Quick Mask
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Color Range1m 14s
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33. Refine Edge and Layer Masks
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Using the Refine Radius tool7m 31s
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Refine Edges1m 28s
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34. The Pen Tool
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Using the Convert Point tool6m 43s
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The Pen tool1m 50s
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