From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
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Enhancing your snowflakes - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop: Channels and Masks
Enhancing your snowflakes
- [Instructor] In this movie I'll show you how to enhance your big, juicy snowflakes, and it's really just a matter of building on what we have so far. And so the fact that this snow layer is a smart object, means that we can change its size, and we can change the filter settings, without harming a single pixel, and so I'm gonna jump a copy of this layer just by pressing control J, or command J on the Mac, which basically emphasizes the snowflakes that we have so far. Instead I wanna make these guys way bigger, by returning to the edit menu and choosing the free transform command. And at which point you may see this alert message that's telling you that motion blur and median will be turned off, as you scale this layer, which is just fine, really actually doesn't matter at all. And now notice that both the width and height values are 500%, so Photoshop remembers the transformation, and that's because you're working with an indestructible smart object. Go ahead and link those two…
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The power of compositing2m 7s
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Smooth edges and color fringing5m 6s
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Assigning a shortcut to Refine Edge3m 23s
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Correcting wispy edges with Refine Mask4m 10s
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Bolstering hair or fur with a blended layer4m 20s
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Combining your refined layer masks5m 17s
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Dressing up a bad background4m 35s
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Masking a background image5m 59s
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From alpha channel to filter mask2m 28s
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Darkening a sky with Gradient Overlay2m 33s
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Creating a synthetic snow effect4m 41s
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Enhancing your snowflakes4m 32s
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Adding a snowflake bokeh on the lens3m 42s
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