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Refining the composite

Refining the composite

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Refining the composite

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Rich Harrington: We're almost there, and what I want to draw on are just a couple dirty tricks to finish this out, to give it that look. And so one of the first things I'm going to do is I'm going to select the Background layer and duplicate it. I'm just going to put a copy on top here of that plate, and we're going to defocus that a bit. So, it's just not so in focus here, a little Gaussian Blur, or any of these will work fine. We're just softening that a bit. It's going to lay on top of our subject, and we could just take that opacity down a bit and look at how that's just matching the color of the environment and her clothes are now picking up some of those shadows and highlights. Abba Shapiro: Yeah, It really makes her look like she's in that garage. Rich: Yeah, that's just a little trick of sort of using the Background layer as a foreground overlay, but you defocused that, which is a good suggestion on your part, to make sure that that doesn't get so photorealistic. It just picks…

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