From the course: Affinity Photo Essential Training
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Mask a sitting figure to fit behind a desk - Affinity Photo Tutorial
From the course: Affinity Photo Essential Training
Mask a sitting figure to fit behind a desk
- With our guitarist in place, now let's put a man sitting in this chair being blasted by this music. We'll open him up. Here's an image I've already cut out. It's called Jumping. And there is our jumping man. He'll look rather good sitting in that chair. Let's copy him, go back to our montage, and paste him in. Now we can move him where we want him, but he's facing the wrong way, so we'll go to Arrange and Flip Horizontal. There he is, turned around. Let's rotate him around so he can be sitting in that chair, and scale him down. And that looks about the right size for the chair and the desk. I think he's fitting rather neatly there. You can see his hand is coming in front of the guitar. Well, since he's behind the desk and the computer's in front of the desk, his hand needs to be behind that guitar. So let's move this layer. First of all, we'll give it a name. We can move him either by choosing to move him back from the Arrange menu, or we can use the shortcut COMMAND and the square…
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Copying and pasting2m 4s
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Transforming layers3m 30s
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Masking hair5m 27s
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Creating an "out of bounds" effect3m 28s
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Mask a sitting figure to fit behind a desk3m 59s
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Adding plasma glow2m 7s
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Reducing the size of a plasma ball1m 44s
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Darkening the screen2m 13s
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Adding lighting1m 36s
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Adding wall shadow5m 24s
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