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Using Color Range to augment a mask

Using Color Range to augment a mask - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using Color Range to augment a mask

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- [Instructor] All right, now, if you take a look at the final version of the composition, you can see that we have this billowing mass of clouds, and this water just spraying all over the place but otherwise all we have is the surfer himself. So we're masking away the sky up here at the top of the composition, and we're also masking away these trees right here in the middle. And so notice that the trees are still visible in the current version of the composition. Now if we had tried to select those trees at the same time we were selecting the sky, we would have made a mess of things, because it is very possible to try to select too much stuff at the same time using color range. In which case, back things off a little bit, and take on each portion of the image independently. And so in our case, we applied a first pass of color range in order to select the sky, now we're going to apply a second pass in order to select the trees. All right, so I'm gonna go ahead and switch to the surfer…

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