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

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

Press Command/
This transparent area Control-] (right bracket)
needs to be filled for to move a layer up in the
the overall composition
to be complete. stacking order.

3. In the Layers panel, select the Tornado layer as the active one.
4. Press Command/Control-T to enter Free Transform mode.

5. Press Shift, then drag the bottom-
right corner until the transparent area
in the bottom-left corner is filled.

Keep in mind that you are now enlarging
a raster-image layer, which can cause loss
of image detail. Because this is a very small
increase in size, and because the layer is the
background image behind several other Shift-drag the
elements, you can make this enlargement bottom-right corner to
without ruining the integrity of the enlarge the active layer
composition. until this area is filled.

6. Press Return/Enter to finalize the
transformation.

7. Select the Lightning layer in Layers panel, then change the layer opacity to 35%.
Layer opacity is the degree to which you can see underlying layers through the layer you
are editing. Because you made the lightning only 35% opaque, the underlying tornado
image is strongly visible the lightning.

Type in this field to
change the active
layer’s opacity.

The underlying
Tornado layer is
now visible through
the Lightning layer.

8. Save the file and then continue to the final stage of the project.

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