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Sci-fi outpost: Finish the scene

Sci-fi outpost: Finish the scene

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Sci-fi outpost: Finish the scene

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- [Voiceover] Last week, we had our little tower here. So, what we're gonna do today is add some stuff to it. I got here this image of an antenna. It's a big antenna on top of Los Trampas, a regional park here in California. That's my nephew over there, one of my hiking buddies, and what I'll do is I'm gonna go to my channels and see where I have some contrast. Now, you see that I have an alpha channel already made down here. So, I look at the red, not much contrast. The green, not much. The blue, that gives me the most contrast, so what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna duplicate the blue channel right off the bat. Come in here a little closer, we can see what's gonna happen. I'm gonna invert it, command I to invert it, see? Now, command L to bring up my levels, and I'm gonna go in there and start to refine this and start to bring up my lights, tone down my darks, see? Bring in some of these lights, click "okay". Now, I can look at the other channels on top. I can see real close, and I can…

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