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Selecting complex organic details

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Selecting complex organic details

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- [Instructor] Alright, now we're gonna start work on a real world making project of sorts, in which we take a couple of photographs from the Dreamstime image library. Don't forget you can get some great deals at dreamstime.com/deke.php. And so we're gonna use a color range command to combine this wake surfer with, believe it or not, this areal view of the city of Barcelona. And we're gonna ultimately arrive at this eye-popping composition here. And while you could certainly achieve this effect using conventional masking techniques, this really is a project that's ideally suited to color range because, after all, we have these clouds and these waves and all this organic detail just popping off the screen. And so, as a rule of thumb, if an imagine contains lots of high contrast details, such as people, and hair, and fur and that kinda thing, then color range probably isn't the best solution. However, if you have a lot of incremental transitions, as is typical in the natural world, then…

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