Quick and Easy Zoom Effect

In this tutorial you’ll create the effect of having zoomed in on a portion of a screenshot to emphasize something in that area.

Some of the skills you will use in this exercise: Create a new layer from a pasted selection Expand a new layer to the size of the image Resize (scale) a layer Create a selection using Alpha to Selection Grow a selection Apply the Drop Shadow filter Hide, merge, and reveal layers

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