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Creating an imaginary landscape with Photoshop - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Learning Photoshop Compositing
Creating an imaginary landscape with Photoshop
- [Instructor] In this movie, I'm going to show you how we can create an imaginary landscape combined from these two stock images, Manhattan seen from New York Harbor and snowcapped mountains. I'm starting out in Bridge. I'll select my two source files, tools, Photoshop, load files into Photoshop layers, so this is going to make a single document with two layers. Let's position the New York image in the center of the canvas. Now I need to remove the sky from the top layer, and this proved to be more tricky than I expected. And that's because, if we take a look at the image, there's a lot of haze in the sky, and when we use a standard selection, like select sky or select subject, it's going to take away more detail than we want. The way I got around this was by combining two different layers with different kinds of selections and different layer masks. Let's just have a look at the problem first of all. If I choose, let's turn off the snowcapped mountains. If I choose select sky and…
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