From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Creating a synthetic rainbow effect
In this exercise, I will show you how to create a synthetic rainbow effect inside of Photoshop. one that actually looks pretty darn good as you can see here inside of this final version of the composition. I've saved my changes as More subtle highlights.psd found inside the 06_color_range folder. Now, the first thing I am going to do is click on the Background layer to make it active and we need to create a new layer to hold our rainbow. So press Ctrl+Shift+N or Command+Shift+N on the Mac. Name the layer rainbow and then click OK. Now, I need to draw a rectangle, and fill it with a rainbow gradient, and I am going to do that by dialing in some very specific values for my Rectangular Marquee tool. So go ahead and select the Rectangular Marquee, change the Style to Fixed Size, and the values I came up with were 1840 for the Width because that's the entire width of this particular image and then 187 for the Height. Now, you don't have to follow these exact values. But again, these are…
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Introducing the Color Range command5m 59s
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Working in the Color Range dialog box7m 7s
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Primary colors and luminance ranges4m 12s
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A terrific use for Color Range4m 57s
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Introducing the Quick Mask mode7m 43s
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Moving a selection into a new background5m 43s
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Smoothing the mask, recreating the corners8m 43s
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Integrating foreground and background4m 44s
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Creating a cast shadow from a layer2m 51s
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Releasing and masking layer effects3m 11s
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Creating a synthetic rainbow effect4m 30s
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Masking and compositing your rainbow4m 46s
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The best selection tools are commands1m 5s
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