From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
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Painting with the Soft Light mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop Masking and Compositing: Fundamentals
Painting with the Soft Light mode
In this exercise, I'm going to show you another way to selectively enhance the contrast of a mask. I've saved my progress as Overlay painting.tif, found inside the 08_everyday folder. And notice that I'm looking at the alpha channel called Overlay Painting, here inside the Channels panel. I am going to convert it to that inverted version of the Blue channel. So you can see just how much detail we lost. So there are the original hairs, and here's what they look like now after overlay painting. So a considerable amount of damage has been done here. Now, I'm not saying that painting with the Overlay mode is a bad thing; it's actually a really, really great technique, but sometimes it goes a little bit too far. So what if you want to produce more subtle results? Well, rather than reducing the Opacity value, as I was saying, that just produces more tepid results. The background will never quite get all the way black, which is what we need. Instead, you ratchet down the blend mode, and let…
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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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