From the course: Photoshop: Creative Video Compositing
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Bring in the video layer and refine masks - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Creative Video Compositing
Bring in the video layer and refine masks
- [Instructor] In this chapter, we're going to use compositing techniques to add an imaginary structure into a video clip and create a virtual location that an actor can interact with. I already have all of the still and video elements for this composite arranged together in this layered file. Let's just take a quick look at it to see what's going on. In the layer group called The Spy is the main video clip that shows the actor running up the rocks and disappearing under the bridge. And then, above that, we have the Stone Wall, which contain those elements. And up at the top, we have the Clock and the Tunnel. I also have a layer called River, and we're gonna be compositing that so it looks like the water is flowing through the bottom part of the clock. I'm gonna start off by adding a color fill layer, filled with black, underneath the River. And the reason I'm gonna be doing that is I'm gonna be making some edits to the Tunnel layer mask, as well as the layer mask I'm adding to the…
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