From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Integrating a bird into a new sky - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Integrating a bird into a new sky
In this exercise, we're going to integrate the bird into its new environment using a combination of Refine Edge, Gaussian blur, and an Inner Shadow effect. And I look at this bird, and even though its mask is in pretty darn good shape, it could be a little better. But I don't believe for a second that the bird actually belongs in this environment. Even though he started against the sky, and now he's still against the blue sky, there is just so much more contrast going on, and so many other elements to compete with, that some integration is in order. So with the Kite layer selected down here near the bottom of Layers panel, go ahead and click on the layer mask thumbnail to make it active as well. Then go up to the Select menu, and choose the Refine Mask command, or press Control+Alt+R, Command+Option+R on the Mac. And I'm going to take the Radius value up to 20, and then press the Tab key. And so, among the other things, it goes ahead and tucks in that edge along the right side of the…
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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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