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Connection Tips

Most nodes have input and output connectors that are used to establish the order in which the operations are calculated.

Connectors on a node.

Try the following to connect nodes after you insert them into the Node Graph:

Drag an input or an output connector onto another node to establish a connection.

Select a node, press the Shift key and select a second node. Then press Y to connect the first node to the output of the second node.

Select a node, press the Shift key and select a second node. Then press Shift+Y to connect the second node to the output of the first node.

Select a node and press Ctrl/Cmd+Shift+X to extract the selected node from the tree.

For nodes that have two inputs, select the node and press Shift+X to swap the A/B inputs.

Drag the mask connector to the node that provides the image you want to use as the mask for the selected node.