From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects
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Adjusting the raw image - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Smart Objects
Adjusting the raw image
- [Narrator] To make this image cooler, normally, we'd add an adjustment layer, maybe curves or levels, and do it that way. But because this is a raw image, we've got a better approach. If we double click the smart object, it doesn't open a new PSB window, instead, it opens that raw dialogue again. Here, we can simply lower the temperature and perhaps increase the exposure slightly and now when we click 'okay' it saves that back into our raw image and now we've got a figure who fits the background much more appropriately. To make him look like he's more in the scene, let's paint the mask on his shoes to sink them into the snow a little way. So we'll go into the mask for this layer, switch to the brush tool and let's choose a soft-edge brush. Repaint in black, it hides the layer and we can sink him into the snow just enough to make it look more like he belongs in there. If we like, we could add a slight shadow beneath him. Let's go into the background, make a new layer and call it…
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