From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Blending image elements - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Blending image elements
In this exercise, we're going to add a Drop Shadow, we'll paint in a couple of other effects, and then we'll blend the nameplate with its photographic background. I've saved my progress as Gradient nameplate.psd and let's start things off by adding that Drop Shadow. With the nameplate layer selected, drop down to the fx icon at the bottom of the panel and choose Drop Shadow. Now by default, the color the Drop Shadow is black, which is really what you're looking for especially if you're trying to blend an image with an existing background. Your better approach is to go ahead and click on that Color Swatch to bring up the Color Picker dialog box and then lift a color from the background by clicking with the Eyedropper tool inside the image window. In my case, I ended up coming up with a Hue value of about 30 degrees, a Saturation of about 65%, and a Brightness of 15%. Another school of thought has it that your better option is to apply a complementary color is the Drop Shadow in which…
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Viewing a mask as a rubylith overlay6m 13s
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Changing a mask's overlay color5m 34s
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Painting inside a mask6m 3s
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Cleaning up and confirming5m 18s
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Combining masks5m 10s
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Painting behind and inside a layer5m 27s
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Blending image elements6m 1s
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What to do when layers go wrong6m 3s
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Hiding layer effects with a mask4m 22s
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Introducing clipping masks5m 29s
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Unclipping and masking a shadow3m 50s
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The mask meets the composition1m 8s
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