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Color keying for advanced transparency: Part 2
From the course: After Effects for Graphic Design
Color keying for advanced transparency: Part 2
- [Instructor] In this lesson, we'll continue from the previous lesson by combining the two keyed versions of the almonds photo in Photoshop. So if you've been following along, you have the almonds.psd file already opened in Photoshop. So what we're gonna do here in the layers panel, is let's come over here and turn on both layers so we can see each of these. The one on the top, which is the one that we had visible inside of After Effects, is the one that has the extra keying information. We keyed this with a value of 90 instead of 100 so we're going to have more noise on the outside of the image as well as some additional details inside of the glass and the shadows. And then the bottom layer is the one that we keyed too much. This will have all of our base detail and some of the main highlights, but it doesn't have all of the extra noise. Now in order to see what we're doing, let's come in here and create a new layer. So down in the bottom of the layers panel, let's come in here and…
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