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Figure 6-16. This image began life as a picture of a seashell on one layer and an ocean scene on
the layer above it. Because the ocean layer was above the shell layer in the Layers panel, the ocean
image totally hid the shell. But interesting things happen when you clip these layers together: The
ocean layer automatically gets cropped to the shape of the seashell layer below it. The fancy way to
say that is the shell now acts as the clipping mask for the ocean image. In the Layers panel shown
here, the tiny downward-bent arrow with the white square next to it (just above the cursor) indic-
ates that the ocean layer is clipped.
