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Applying creative effects to a portrait

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Applying creative effects to a portrait

- [Instructor] Good portrait retouching isn't always just removing distractions, sometimes it's adding things to the image as well. Well that's what we'll do here in this second part of our project. We'll have a little bit of fun and we'll explore how we can add a drop shadow to the subject, add a blur effect to the background, bring in some typography and a few graphics as well. Alright, well let's begin by organizing our layers. We really do not need the original background layer so I'll trash that one. Then double-click the layer name for the concrete wall and go ahead and name that one Concrete Wall. Then next, let's target the layer with our subject. That's the top layer in our layer stack. To add an effect, you can go down to the FX icon. Click on that and the one we're looking for is Drop Shadow. When you click on Drop Shadow it will open up a Layer Style dialog so that we can work with our drop shadow settings. So here's Drop Shadow, here are the settings. One of the things…

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