Join Deke McClelland for an in-depth discussion in this video 623 Contrast: bright image, dark background, part of Deke's Techniques.
- [Narrator] In this movie, we're…going to take that nurse shark composition…that we began in the previous movie,…and we're going to infuse it with contrast…by darkening up the background…and generally making the image look like I…wished I'd captured it in the first place.…Alright, so, I'll go ahead and switch…to this version of the image right here,…and what we need to do is add a…layer of black above the bluish layer.…So if you're working along with me,…make sure that bottom layer is selected,…and then go up to the Layer menu,…choose New Fill Layer, and choose Solid Color.…I've used the keyboard shortcuts command…under the Edit menu to give this guy…a shortcut of Ctrl + Shift + 1 here on the PC,…or Command + Shift + 1 on a Mac,…because I use solid-color layers so very often.…
Anyway, I'll go ahead and choose that command.…And then I'll call this guy Black,…because that's what it's going to be.…And then I'll click OK.…You want to make sure that all of your…hue, saturation, and brightness values…are dialed down to zero, or you could…
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Deke McClelland
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12/3/2019Released
1/13/2011This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
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