From the course: Digital Matte Painting: Changing a Scene From Summer to Winter

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Making selections using the Color Range command

Making selections using the Color Range command

Here is a plate of a mountain chalet that we're going to be using for this tutorial. It is from the Corel stock photo library and it's royalty-free. It's included with the course materials, so please open it up right now and work right along with me. Before we get started, you need to do a little file setup. First, let's duplicate the plate. A lot of times while I'm working, I will accidentally paint on the original plate, and it's good to have a clean copy underneath it to refer to. Next, let's add a little extra room around the edge of the canvas to use as a workspace. Go up to the top of the interface and choose Image > Canvas Size, and add an extra 300 pixels on each side. Now, press Command or Ctrl and click into the layer icon preview of the copy of the plate and make a new layer. Then select Inverse to select the area around the image. Load black into the foreground color picker, and go up to the top menu and choose Edit and then Fill. Then fill the selection full of black…

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