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Masking and compositing light

Masking and compositing light - Photoshop Tutorial

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Masking and compositing light

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In this exercise we are going to temper the effect and better integrate it with the scene using a combination of masking and compositing. Now the first thing about God lighting; if you've ever seen images of this sort of thing where the light is coming out of the cloud in these rays. It appears in the sky. So it's very much like a rainbow in that regard. So we need to mask away the ground in the background. We are going to do that by Alt+Clicking or Option+Clicking on the eye in front of the background layer, so we can see the background by itself, then switch over to the Channels panel, check out the Channels once again. In the Red channel we have a fairly darkish sky and we've got all sorts of middling shades going on inside the ground. In the Green channel, we've got a lot of detail. The ground is darker this time; the sky is lighter, but still not to the degree of contrast we are looking for. In the Blue channel the ground is very dark and the sky is very bright. Once again, this…

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