From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Extracting a mask from a Smart Object - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Extracting a mask from a Smart Object
In this exercise, we're going to mask the kite, that is, the bird, and we're going to move into our larger composition. Working inside the bird image, first thing I want you to do is grab that newest alpha channel, and duplicate it by dropping it onto the little Page icon at the bottom of the Channels panel. And now let's increase the contrast of this channel dramatically, using the levels command. So press Control+L, or Command+L on the Mac. This group of luminance levels here inside the histogram; those represent the darkest colors inside the channel, that is to say the background. And then this little group of very bright luminance levels; those represent the tonal values inside the bird. So I'm going to start by dragging that black slider triangle all the way beyond the first group of spikes right there, and that ends up giving us a black point value of 200. And then I'll grab the white slider triangle, and take it down to beyond the second group of spikes, and we end up with a…
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Choosing the ideal base channel5m 7s
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Converting a channel into a mask6m 34s
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Painting with the Overlay mode7m 27s
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Painting with the Soft Light mode5m 55s
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Mask, composite, refine, and blend4m 40s
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Creating a more aggressive mask7m 2s
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Blending differently masked layers7m
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Creating a hair-only mask6m
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Using history to regain a lost mask3m 42s
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Separating flesh tones from hair8m 28s
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Adjusting a model's color temperature4m 30s
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Introducing the Calculations command7m 22s
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Extracting a mask from a Smart Object6m 34s
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Integrating a bird into a new sky5m 40s
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Creating synthetic rays of light6m 4s
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Masking and compositing light7m 39s
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Introducing a brilliant light source7m 5s
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Using the image to select itself1m 37s
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