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Locking transparency

Locking transparency - Photoshop Tutorial

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Locking transparency

I have saved my progress as Black and glowy.psd found inside the 10_layers folder, and I want to go ahead and paint a little bit of glow into the left-hand side of that big black blob that I'm working on. So I'll press the F7 key to revisit the Layers panel, make sure that splash is selected as it is. And I'm going to Alt+Click or Option+ Click on the eyeball in front of splash so that we can see it independently of the other layers and the Blend mode is temporarily turned off, even though it says Screen, it's actually temporarily turned off because there is nothing to blend with at this point. And now I want to paint with white inside of this layer so I'm going to get the Brush Tool and I've already changed white to my foreground color by pressing the x key. And now though if I increase the size of my cursor by pressing right bracket or something along those lines, if I just start painting, notice that I just replaced pixels inside the image, and that would be terrible. Press Ctrl+Z,…

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