From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Masking and compositing your rainbow - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Masking and compositing your rainbow
In this final exercise, we are going to take that over-the-top cartoon rainbow and turn it into a kind of photorealistic rainbow through the magic of masking and compositing. I have saved this version of the image as Garrish rainbow.psd found inside the 06_color_range folder, and the first thing we need to do is mask the rainbow behind the grass. We're going to do that using the Color Range command, but you may recall that the Color Range command always sees the composite image. So, if I went out to the Select menu, and chose Color Range, and then tried to click inside the grass let's say, and I will turn off the Invert check box, that's kind of a problem right now, you'd see that I can select a lot of the grass, but notice that the rainbow is kind of digging into it. I can't get to the portion of the grass that I need to mask the rainbow away, because the rainbow is in the way. So I will cancel out of there. What you need to do is Alt+Click or Option+Click on the eye in front of the…
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Introducing the Color Range command5m 59s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box7m 7s
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Primary colors and luminance ranges4m 12s
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A terrific use for Color Range4m 57s
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Introducing the Quick Mask mode7m 43s
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Moving a selection into a new background5m 43s
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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners8m 43s
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Integrating foreground and background4m 44s
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Creating a cast shadow from a layer2m 51s
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Releasing and masking layer effects3m 11s
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect4m 30s
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Masking and compositing your rainbow4m 46s
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The best selection tools are commands1m 5s
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