From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Turning a destructive edit into a layer
At the end of the previous exercise I promised to show you how to create marquees of specific sizes, and I will do that, it's a very useful technique. But it dawns on me in the meantime that I've made a dreadful mistake. I've gone ahead and permanently modified the color of pixels here on the Background layer, which is such a rookie error, especially for somebody who has been using the program as long as I have. However, I want to show you a great trick for retaining your changes, popping them onto a new layer, without having to redo all that work. So if you've made that same mistake I did, if I led you down the garden path, then here's what you do. You start by going up to the Window menu and choosing the History command, which brings up the History panel. I want you to go down to this last state, which in my case is called Deselect, because the last thing I did was deselect that circle, and I want you to click in front of it in order to set Deselect as the Source History State…
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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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