From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Resolving edges with layer effects - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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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The marquee tools6m 31s
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The single-pixel tools (plus tool tricks)6m 48s
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Turning a destructive edit into a layer5m 34s
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Making shapes of specific sizes7m 7s
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The lasso tools5m 49s
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Working with the Magnetic Lasso tool7m 19s
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The Quick Selection tool8m 13s
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Combining Quick Selection and Smudge4m 52s
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The Magic Wand and the Tolerance value6m 55s
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Contiguous and Anti-aliased selections6m 58s
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Making a good selection with the Magic Wand6m 34s
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Selecting and replacing a background6m 55s
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Resolving edges with layer effects7m 52s
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Adding lines of brilliant gold type7m 28s
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The seven selection soldiers52s
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