From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Masking and compositing light - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Masking and compositing light
In this exercise we are going to temper the effect and better integrate it with the scene using a combination of masking and compositing. Now the first thing about God lighting; if you've ever seen images of this sort of thing where the light is coming out of the cloud in these rays. It appears in the sky. So it's very much like a rainbow in that regard. So we need to mask away the ground in the background. We are going to do that by Alt+Clicking or Option+Clicking on the eye in front of the background layer, so we can see the background by itself, then switch over to the Channels panel, check out the Channels once again. In the Red channel we have a fairly darkish sky and we've got all sorts of middling shades going on inside the ground. In the Green channel, we've got a lot of detail. The ground is darker this time; the sky is lighter, but still not to the degree of contrast we are looking for. In the Blue channel the ground is very dark and the sky is very bright. Once again, this…
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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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