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Shading on Hard Light layers

Shading on Hard Light layers - Affinity Photo Tutorial

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Shading on Hard Light layers

- [Instructor] Here's a photograph of nighttime in downtown New Orleans to which I've added a picture of a girl from the back watching the scene. But she doesn't look like she belongs in this location. Let's adjust the lighting to make her fit there. First of all we'll load up this layer as a selection by holding command on a Mac, control on a PC and clicking on the thumbnail in the layers panel. We can now go to layer>new fill layer, and it makes a layer that matches that selection filled with a common foreground color. Let's deselect and we want to change this color to 50% gray. We can do this by clicking on the swatch at the top change from RGB sliders to Grayness and now we can drag this to 50, and as you can see as we drag it the color changes. When it's 50% gray we're there. When we change the mode of this layer from normal to Hard Light, in the Hard Light mid tone grayness appears and we see just the highlights and the shadows. There aren't any yet so let's add some. We can't…

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