From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Pasting an image inside a selection - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Pasting an image inside a selection
In this exercise, we're going to paste the guy's head into the selected egg, and then we're going to distort his head, once again using a combination of Free Transform and that Warp mode just as we did the selection outline. I've saved off a version of this image called Egg masks.psd found inside the 05_combine folder, and the reason is if you go over to the Channels panel, you'll see that I went ahead and saved my current selection outline as the new egg and my previous one as the old egg, because what I found is they both have slight problems, and they both cut ever so slightly into the edge of the egg, and I don't want that. So what I am going to do? And you may want to do this as well if you want to get exactly the same result, is I went ahead and Ctrl+Clicked or Command+Clicked on the channel called the new egg in order to load it up as the selection outline, and then I added the old egg by Ctrl+Shift+Clicking on it, or Command+Shift+Clicking on the Mac. All right. Now, let's…
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Introducing "selection calculations"4m 19s
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Combining two different tools7m 29s
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Selections and transparency masks5m 17s
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Selecting an eye7m 1s
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Masking and blending a texture into skin5m 1s
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Painting a texture into an eye4m 19s
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Combining layers, masks, channels, and paths4m 54s
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Moving selection outlines vs. selected pixels5m 36s
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Transforming and warping a selection outline7m 45s
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Pasting an image inside a selection7m 26s
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Adding volumetric shadows and highlights6m 54s
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Converting an image into a mask4m 42s
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Selections reign supreme56s
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