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Dressing up a bad background

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Dressing up a bad background

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- [Instructor] Alright, so at this point, I suppose we could knock off because after all we have a pretty good looking composition, or we could flex our collective artistic muscles and come up with something quite extraordinary, which is what I'm gonna do and I'd love it if you would join me. Starting with the background, so if I switch back over to my image in progress here, and I turn off the two copies of the model. And by the way, we need both copies, by the way. We can't fuse these together because they're subject to different blend modes. And so if we were to try to merge them together we would get a much lesser result and we'd lose our layer masks. So anyway, I'm just gonna turn 'em off. So we can take a look at this strange background image. Now I selected it because it's already in low focus and she looks great against this background. However, it is odd and I'm sure there's some editing that's been done here because in addition, to these blue trees we also have these red…

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