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Final mask touch-ups

Final mask touch-ups - Photoshop Tutorial

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Final mask touch-ups

- Alright, let's zoom in to 100% here, I'll use the shortcut of command option 0 on a Mac or ctrl alt 0 on Windows. And let's look at just a few issues that are in place due to the masks. If I turn off the background layer we can see where the rocks from the other image are coming from, and where you see the little checkerboard pattern bleeding through this area here, that means that we're only seeing that partially. So it probably means that we're seeing some ghosting there, I've got some ghosting back here as well. And then the other thing which looks odd to me is that there's this sort of strange cut-off here in the water, where the water changes color. And I notice it more when I zoom out, that just looks unnatural to me. So, I'm going to address that first. What I'm actually going to do is I'm going to copy this same rock from the layer underneath, float it up as a new layer on top of the rocks that I'd added and just sort of blend that in. So, I've got that background layer…

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