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Resolving edges with layer effects

Resolving edges with layer effects - Photoshop Tutorial

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Resolving edges with layer effects

Now we have been creating some pretty rudimentary masks, because we've been relying on the selection tools, which while convenient, are not Photoshop's most powerful masking functions. But even if we had wicked accurate masks, we would still have to rely on our compositing skills in order to get the scene to match up. Specifically in our case, we have these dark edges surrounding the frog. That doesn't look natural. This foot still does not work inside the scene. So we're going to bump up the quality of the image like so and we're going to do so relying almost exclusively on layer effects. So let me show you how that works. I'll go ahead and switch back to the progress file which I've called Magical happy background.psd. We're going to start things off with this hot foot layer. So go ahead and click on it to make it active. Then I'm going to zoom in on the foot and it's got all kinds of problems. Even though I spent a good five minutes trying to tweak this mask using the Smudge tool…

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