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Integrating foreground and background

Integrating foreground and background - Photoshop Tutorial

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Integrating foreground and background

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In this exercise we're going to add a couple of layer effects onto our shark and we're also going to add an adjustment layer. And the whole idea is we want to better integrate the shark into its new environment, so that it feels like its right at home. I've saved my progress as Smooth shark perimeter.psd it's found inside the 06_color_range folder and the first thing you want to do is make sure that the Effects are turned on, so there should be an eyeball in front of the word Effects, you also want to make sure it's the layer, not the layer mask that's active, because we're going to want to be able to eyedrop colors from the layer itself. Now our first challenge will be to color this shark, so we matches his background, that is maybe make the top of the shark a little bluer, and then definitely add a little bit of green to his belly, which is presumably reflecting the grass, and I'll do that by dropping down to the fx icon and choosing Gradient Overlay and that should go and fill the…

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