From the course: Photoshop for iPad: Photoshop Compositing

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Adding a background

Adding a background - Photoshop Tutorial

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Adding a background

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- [Instructor] Let's add a background to this image. But before we do that, let's see where we are in the hierarchy. If we tap our Layers panel, we can see that at the moment, we are on the color balance layer, just above the copy of the background image. And if we place our new background in here, it's going to come out between those layers. So let's go to the top, so we can see what we're doing, and now put our Layers panel away. We'll tap the image icon, on the left, go into our Creative cloud libraries, and I'm going to tap my Photoshop iPad Library, and in here, I'm going to select this image of theatrical lights I photographed recently. It's slightly the wrong proportions for this image, further, for the iPad has shrunk it down slightly, so that it fits within the bounds. Let's make it bigger, and press Done to place it. We can put this panel away, let's open our Layers panel, and drag the lights all the way down to the…

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