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By Cmd/Ctrl-clicking on layers, you can add or subtract selections from each other. If

you Cmd/Ctrl-click on the thumbnail image and then push Shift and click on the next

thumbnail, you get a combined selection of these layers. The same works with Cmd/

Ctrl+Opt/Alt-click to subtract the second selection from the first. It’s a kind of Boolean-

function for selections. Cmd/Ctrl+Shift-click will add a selection, while Cmd/Ctrl+Opt/

Alt-click will subtract a selection.

THOMAS BURDEN ILLUSTRATES HOW HE USES
SELECTIONS TO TOUCH UP HIS 3D IMAGES

TRANSFORM 3D ART Here I used the Polygonal Lasso tool
to select the areas in between the
cymbals. A selection as a Photoshop
brush was then used as a layer mask on
the lightning.

The Pen tool was used

to cut out the shape around the

foreground elements. A selection as a

Photoshop brush was then used as a layer

mask on the steam.

These vinyl shapes were

cut out using the Pen tool and then duplicated by

clicking and dragging while holding the Opt/Alt key.

All elements were rendered out of CINEMA

4D under one object buffer to separate it

from the background. I Cmd/Ctrl-clicked on

the channel in the Photoshop Channels

panel to select it, and then copy and pasted

it so that it could be edited separately from

the background.

© Thomas Burden

PRO GUIDE TO SELECTIONS