968 Blending vectors with a pixel-based photograph

- Hey gang, this is Deke McClelland, … welcome to "Deke's Techniques". … Today we'll talk about … how you can combine vector-based illustrations … with a pixel based photograph. … Now, in my experience, … when designers hear first word combine, second word vectors, … third word pixels. … They immediately think … you got to do that inside Adobe Illustrator … or possibly InDesign. … Those work of course, … but if all you want is a single page composition … then one program does it all, … and that one program is Photoshop. … Here, let me show you exactly how it works. … All right, so here we are inside Photoshop, … looking at the final version of the artwork, … complete with those letters … blending into the panels of the van. … All right, I'm going to press shift tab … to bring back my right side panel … and I'll go ahead and switch over to my artwork so far, … which includes a photographic image … from the Dreamstime image library. … I'm going to go ahead … and turn that Dreamstime layer off. …