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Tucking the firework behind trees

Tucking the firework behind trees - Affinity Photo Tutorial

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Tucking the firework behind trees

- Here's our firework with the black duly removed, as we move it around the image, it appears in front of the trees, well of course it does, the layer is on top of the background layer. But, what if we could tuck it behind those trees. Let's zoom in on it, and once again let's open up our blend options by clicking the gear icon. There are our source layer settings as we left them. Let's now have a look at the underlying layer settings. This controls the visibility of this layer depending on what's happening beneath it. We want to have it visible over the bright sky but hidden behind the darker trees. Once again, let's grab the top left anchor and pull it down, and you can see the trees now starting to show through it. Drag it to the right until we get the visibility of those tress that we want and now we can click anywhere in the remaining portion and drag up to bring the rest of the firework back to full strength. And once again it's the horizontal distance between the top point and…

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