From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
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Selecting based on opacity - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Mastering Selections in Photoshop CC
Selecting based on opacity
- Photoshop is a powerful tool that gives you all sorts of flexibility, and therefore there are a wide variety of tasks you might perform with your images inside of Photoshop, and one of those is to create composite images. I have an example here, a composite image where I have blended two exposures. Now, in this case, it happens to be an absurd composite, in fact the file name here is even "Absurd Composite", a hot air balloon set amongst these palm trees, not realistic at all. But the point here is not to create a realistic composite, but rather to understand one of the options available when you have transparent pixels. So in this case, if I turn off the underlying image layer, you'll see that the hot air balloon is all by itself, the checkerboard pattern indicates transparency, it means that the pixels do not exist at all. So this might be an image that came from somewhere else, maybe there had been a layer mask at some point, but then that was applied to the image. Nevertheless…
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