From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
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Painting contrast with the Overlay mode - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Photoshop CC 2017 One-on-One: Mastery
Painting contrast with the Overlay mode
- [Instructor] In this movie we're going to increase the contrasts of our mask, first by applying the levels command and then by painting with the brush tool set to the Overlay blend mode. So, just because I want to do things as non-destructively as possible, I'll create a copy of my existing alpha channel by dragging it and dropping it onto the little page icon at the bottom of the channels panel. Then, I'll go up to the image menu, choose adjustments, and choose levels, or if you prefer, you can press control L or command L on the Mac. Now, once again, we need to move the sliders to beyond the big lumps, so the white point needs to take all this stuff right here and make it white, and I can make that happen by dragging this white slider triangle to, about 150 should work out. And if you take a very close look at the histogram, you can see that there's a point right there, and I want to stay to the left of it so that I'm taking every major spike that there is and making it white. Now…
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Using the image to select itself2m 15s
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A quick refresher on layer masking5m 43s
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Initiating a mask as an alpha channel8m 7s
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Deploying an alpha channel as a layer mask6m 33s
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Introducing the Calculations command6m 44s
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Masking a subject set against black or white7m 11s
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Saving alpha channels to the TIFF format3m 57s
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Painting contrast with the Overlay mode10m 52s
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Eliminating halos with the Minimum filter9m 5s
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Restoring details with the History brush6m 41s
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Masking a subject against a green screen6m 9s
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Enhancing and inverting a mask with Levels6m 48s
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Painting away color fringing8m 5s
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Immersing an image in its new environment6m
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Masking wispy, voluminous, untamed hair7m 44s
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Preserving very fine hair details9m 25s
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Compositing hair to match a new background6m 57s
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