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Dropping out a white background

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Dropping out a white background

I've saved my changes as Grayscale bulb.tif, found inside the 28_blending folder. I use TIF because I figured by now enough damage has been done with JPEG compression, we don't need to apply anymore. Incidentally, in order to create this horrible, brutal version of this light bulb, I've saved the JPEG image with a Quality setting of 2. So, it was way, way down there. This is not your standard routine everyday average JPEG image, not that you would save anyway. Now we're going to take this image and we're going to introduce it into this composition, and it's going to look absolutely like a million bucks. It's going to blend seamlessly, as you're about to see. Now, I'm looking at that version of Opposite effects.psd that was saved along with the Darken layer Comp. So you can go ahead and click in front of Darken if you want to in order to get the same effect I have. Also, click on the couple bright layer right there to make it active, so that when we introduce the light bulb into the…

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