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Compositing dark hair

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Compositing dark hair

In this exercise we're going to take the diver and we're going to composite her against this authentically aqueous underwater background, in order to create this final composition, and here is how it works. I'll start off inside the file in progress, which I've called Final masked diver.psd found inside the 01_ calculations folder, and you can see here in the Channels panel that I have an alpha channel called final mask. I'm going to load it as a selection outline by Ctrl+clicking on it here on the PC or Command+Clicking on that channel on the Mac. Then I'll switch back to the layers panel. We've got to convert this background into an independent layer by double-clicking on it and then inside the New layer dialog box, I'll call this layer diver and click OK and then finally I'll drop down to the Add layer Mask icon down here at the bottom of the panel, and I'll click on it. Now we have a masked version of the diver and we can add her into the composition. Assuming that one of your…

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