From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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Compositing hair to match a new background - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Compositing hair to match a new background
- [Voiceover] In this movie, we'll composite the wispy, voluminous, untamed hair against the new background. I'll go ahead and start things off by deploying the alpha channel as the layer mask, which you do by control or command clicking on the layer mask thumbnail, or, in our case, you can press control alt 7, or command option 7 on the Mac. Then switch back to the composite RGB image, return to the layers panel, and click on the "add layer mask" icon at the bottom of the panel in order to convert the selection to a layer mask. Next I'll go ahead and rename this layer "hair," and I'll press the enter key. All right, now you can already see that we have some haloes around the hair details, but that's going to work itself out just fine. All right, next I'll press the M key to switch back to my rectangular marquee tool, and then I'll right-click inside the image window and choose "duplicate layer." Next I'll change the document setting to the image that contains the background, and I'll…
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Using the image to select itself2m 15s
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A quick refresher on layer masking5m 43s
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Initiating a mask as an alpha channel8m 7s
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Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask6m 33s
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Introducing the Calculations command6m 44s
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Masking a subject set against black or white7m 11s
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Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format3m 57s
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Painting contrast with the Overlay mode10m 52s
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Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter9m 5s
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Restoring details with the History brush6m 41s
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Masking a subject against a green screen6m 9s
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Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels6m 48s
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Painting away color fringing8m 5s
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Immersing an image in its new environment6m
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Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair7m 44s
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Preserving very fine hair details9m 25s
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Compositing hair to match a new background6m 57s
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