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Taking Advantage of Quickmask
Dave Cross shares some tips on using Quickmask in Photoshop to feather a portion of a selection.
Dave Cross is Senior Developer, Education and Curriculum for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals and is involved in all aspects of the training that is provided to NAPP members. Dave’s book “The Photoshop CS2 Help Desk” is now available on ScottKelbyBooks.com
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Create A Composite Layer
If you have a multilayer composition and you
want to apply an effect to all the layers at once, don’t flatten the layers–use a composite layer instead. Hide the layers you want excluded, and press Shift-Command-Option-E (PC: Shift-Ctrl-Alt-E). A new layer will be created at the top containing a merged copy of all the visible layers.
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Carol McKay said on — August 4, 2008 @ 8:29 am
This was very helpful. I had been wondering how to preview the “Refine Edges” feature. Now I know.