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Recreating a historic poster using a clipping mask

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Recreating a historic poster using a clipping mask

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- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to recreate or reinterpret this WPA Works Progress Administration poster from the 1940s. Here's my version on the left, and on the right I have my work in progress. So let me just explain where we're at. In the work in progress, I have three layer groups, the background, the lips, type, and then on top of this, we have a texture. With the background, we have a solid color fill layer. On top of that is a simple rectangle, which has no fill and a white stroke, providing the white frame. The next thing I want to add is this starburst. Now, the starburst is a custom shape. So I need to be in my custom shape tool and it's a legacy custom shape. So if you don't already have your legacy shapes available to you, come to your Shapes Panel, and choose Legacy Shapes and More. Thereafter, you'll find them in the custom shape dropdown. All legacy default shapes, and there this particular one is in a group called Symbols. And there it is right there, the…

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