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15. Choose the Magic Wand tool in the Tools panel and choose the Subtract
from Selection option on the Options bar.

16. Click anywhere in the transparent area (the gray-and-white checkerboard)
to remove that area from the selection.

Magic Wand cursor
in Subtract from
Selection mode

Marching ants no
longer surround
the background.

17. In the Layers panel, click the Add Layer Mask button.
Similar to the vector mask you created in the previous exercise, this layer mask shows a
new icon linked to the layer icon. A layer mask works on the same principle as the vector
mask, except that the layer mask is raster-based instead of vector-based. You can disable
the layer mask in the same way you disabled the vector mask in the previous exercise.

Layer Mask
thumbnail

Add Layer Mask
button

18. Save the file and continue to the next stage of the project.

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