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Mask, composite, refine, and blend

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Mask, composite, refine, and blend

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In this exercise, we are going to take our most recent alpha channel, and we are going to use it to mask this model against a new background. I've saved my progress as Soft Light Mask.tiff, found inside the 08_everyday folder. If you're working along with me, you'll also need to open Background hills.psd. All right, I am going to switch back to the model. Notice I've gone ahead and clicked on the RGB Composite here at the top of the Channels panel, and now I am going to load the final alpha channel as a selection outline by Control+clicking, or Command+clicking, on this thumbnail. All right, now let's go back to Layers panel and convert this background image into a layer by double-clicking on it, and I'm going to go ahead and call this layer base, and click OK, because after all, it's going to serve as our base layer. And next I'll drop down to the Add Layer Mask icon at the bottom of the palette, and click on it. And that will go ahead and express that selection as a layer mask. All…

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