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Step Five: The quickest way to make
multiple duplicates of this layer is to use
a keyboard shortcut (we’ll delete all the
duplicates at the end; this is just to get
the slice of colors we need for the effect).
Press-and-hold Option-Command-Left
Arrow (PC: Alt-Ctrl-Left Arrow) until you
achieve the effect shown here—there
will be a lot of duplicates in your Lay-
ers panel! You’ll need to go until all the
colors extend past her left hand.Step Six: Select all the duplicates (not
the original soccer player layer) by click-
ing on the top one and Shift-clicking
on the bottom one, and then press
Command-G (PC: Ctrl-G) to group
them. This makes it easier to deal with
them and not have a huge Layers panel
to navigate. Double-click the group’s
name in the Layers panel, and rename
it “Duplicates.”Step Seven: We need to take a slice of
this duplicate group. To do this, we’ll use
the Single Column Marquee tool found
under the Rectangular Marquee tool (M)
in the Toolbar (if you don’t see it, click-
and-hold on the three dots near the bot-
tom of the Toolbar). This tool will give us
a better result than the standard Rectan-
gular Marquee selection tool, since we
just need a single-pixel selection for now.
Click once to select an area of the dupli-
cate layers where there’s color from the
top to the bottom, as shown here.
Once you have this selection, go
to Edit>Copy Merged, and then click
on the Create a New Layer icon at
the bottom of the Layers panel. Go to
Edit>Paste to paste that slice onto your
new layer. You won’t be able to see it,
so turn off the other layers by clicking
their Eye icons in the Layers panel, and
zoom in just to be sure you’ve cap-
tured that slice. Once you’ve verified
it’s there, turn all the layers back on.