492 Helping your dinosaur escape to the big city

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland,…welcome to Deke's Techniques.…Now as you may recall last week…we took this 3D dinosaur from the Pixel Squid library…and we blended it with a photographic background…to great aplomb inside Photoshop,…but I ask you of what use is a big man-eating dinosaur…if he doesn't at least occasionally get the opportunity…to run amok in a large metropolitan city…teeming with innocent people?…Which of course, is a cool, fun project,…but it also gives us a chance to match this dinosaur…and his many layers to a completely different environment.…

And as you're about to see it's a lot less work…than you might think.…Here, let me show you exactly how it works.…Alright, just so you have a chance…to see everything on screen,…here's the composition we created last week…and here's the effect we're going for today.…And obviously we're going to try to make this transition…with as little work as possible.…And so the first thing I'm going to do…is switch over to this photograph,…which comes to us from the Fotolia image library,…