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Two ways to add a new background

Two ways to add a new background

From the course: Photo Tools Weekly

Two ways to add a new background

- [Voiceover] Welcome back, now for the fun part. Here we're going to look at two different techniques for replacing the background. We'll start off by working with a photograph which I have here and this is an image that I captured just a few minutes later. And often when I'm shooting I'll try to capture atmosphere, or sky, or different elements. Not that this is a great photo but it has some good elements that we can use in the other frame. To bring that over just click on the icon for the Layer, go to the tab, and then drop it in. Right now it's on the top of the Layer stack so let's go ahead and rename this first. So I'll just call this one Sky and then I'm going to drag this down in my Layer stack and I'm going to bring it all the way down. Next, we need to move it around a little bit, right, so I'm just going to click and drag here. In the town where I live there's some islands, these are the Channel Islands off in the distance and I'm going to play around with where those are…

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