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After you restack the layers, you might see that a small blank space appears in the
bottom-left corner. (Yours might be slightly different, depending on how you painted
the mask in the previous exercise.)

Note:
Press Command/Con-
trol-[ (left bracket) to
move a layer down in
the stacking order.

Press Command/Con-
trol-] (right bracket) to
move a layer up in the
stacking order.
This transparent area
needs to be filled for
the overall composition Note:
to be complete.
If your original selection
does not result in the
3. In the Layers panel, select the Tornado layer as the active one.
problem described in
4. Press Command/Control-T to enter Free Transform mode. Step 2, skip to Step 7.

5. Drag the bottom-right corner handle of the layer down until any
transparent area in the bottom-left corner is filled.
Keep in mind that you are enlarging a raster-image layer, which can cause loss of
detail. Because this is a very small increase, and because the layer is the background
image behind several other elements, you can make this enlargement without ruining
the integrity of the composition.

Drag the bottom-right
handle to enlarge the
active layer until this
area is filled.

6. Press Return/Enter to finalize the transformation.

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