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Using color and texture to unify images

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Using color and texture to unify images

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- [Instructor] All right, so it's time to bring all of these elements together. Now, one of the things that I really ignore as I'm creating the composites is the color in the image, because until now, I really haven't worried about the fact that the sky is super blue, or exactly what color those bulbs were. I'm more concerned about the composition. But there comes a time when you need to actually unify the entire image, and I'm going to do that with a gradient map, as well as with a texture. So, at the bottom of the Layers panel, I'm going to choose the Gradient Map, not a gradient overlay, but an actual gradient map. And what that will do is, it will remap all of the values in my image to a single gradient. And the reason that that can pull together, and unify an image is because one of the elements might have more cyan in the shadows, it might be a little cooler or a little bit warmer, and this will remap all of your…

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