665 Celebrating the winter solstice at Carhenge

Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland.…Welcome to Deke's Techniques.…This week we're going to celebrate…the upcoming winter solstice inside Photoshop.…You might figure we'd want to go to Newgrange…in Ireland for the sunrise,…or Stonehenge in England for the sunset,…but this is America.…We're not going to Stonehenge.…We're going to Carhenge,…which is probably where those English druids…got the idea for Stonehenge in the first place,…plus it's made of cars.…What we're going to do is take this image…that I captured with a camera at Carhenge,…and developed inside Camera Raw,…and we're going to add this image,…which I also captured with that very same camera…and featured back in Deke's Techniques 631.…

We're going to combine them together.…You might look at this and figure,…"Well, you apply with the screen blend mode.…"What's the big deal?"…Actually, we're going to be taking advantage…of a feature that I've never used in my life.…I've never seen demonstrated.…I've never even understood why it exists inside Photoshop.…It's a check box called Transparency Shapes Layer…