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Matching a scene with Smart Filters - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Matching a scene with Smart Filters
In this exercise we want to do that usual thing, where we make the foreground image look at home in this new background, and we're going to do so by applying a few smart filters. And we'll end up creating this effect here. All right I've saved my changes as model against sky.psd, found inside the 07_refine folder. Now notice, throughout this image we have this declining range of field. We have these details that are very sharp in the central portion of his face, and then the focus drops off quite quickly over here on the left-hand side. So it doesn't make any darn sense whatsoever that the background is in sharp focus, it just wouldn't work that way. So go ahead and click in the Night Sky layer here inside the Layers panel. We want to decrease the focus using the smart filter, in case we want to go back and make edits later. So let's convert the image to a smart object by going up to the Layers panel flyout menu and choosing Convert to Smart Object, or if you loaded my DekeKey…
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Introducing the Refine Mask command6m 58s
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Automated edge detection8m 23s
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Turning garbage into gold6m 19s
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Starting with an accurate selection7m 11s
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Selection outline in, layer mask out7m 48s
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Matching a scene with Smart Filters4m 29s
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Cooling a face, reflecting inside eyes4m 45s
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Creating a layer of ghoulish skin4m 28s
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Adding dark circles around the eyes5m 20s
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Creating a fake blood effect5m 38s
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Establishing trails of blood7m 40s
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Integrating the blood into the scene7m 3s
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The ultimate in masking automation1m 6s
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