CLIPPING MASK

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CLIPPING MASK

Locking transparency is the most basic way of working with a fixed alpha. Using CLIPPING MASKS is a way of using an older layers transparency without altering the new layer.

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-        Using the file from the previous example, turn off all the locks.

-        Create a new layer and fill it with lots of colours.

-        Right-click on the layer in the layers palette and choose ‘create clipping mask’ or hold Alt and click on the line dividing the two layers or press Ctrl+Alt+G

-        Create a new layer, repeat step 2 and 3. The new layer conforms to the opacity of the first layer and not the second layer. This means you can make a layer and have many other layers (including adjustment layers) inherit its opacity.

Now if you start blurring, distorting or erasing parts of the original layer, all the clipped layers above it will inherit the new opacity.

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