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Step Twenty-Five: Click the top layer in the Layers panel to
make it active, and then click the Create a New Layer icon at
the bottom of the panel to create a new layer at the top of the
layer stack. With the same brush still selected, Option-click (PC:
Alt-click) on the red of the text to sample that color. Then, paint
shards of glass around the broken areas of the text. This will create
the effect of fragments breaking off.
Step Twenty-Six: One last thing:
We want to bring most of her arm
in front of the text, so Commandclick
(PC: Ctrl-click) the layer thumbnail
of the main subject layer to load
her shape once again as a selection.
Once you have the selection, click
on the mask thumbnail on the text
layer to make it active again. Select a
round, hard-edged Brush and paint
away the text in front of the arm.
Step Twenty-Five
As a finishing touch, drop in a player’s name using the Type
tool. Apart from any adjustments that you might want to make,
you’re pretty much done. ■
Final
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