Photoshop Compositing Secrets - Matt Kloskowski [87]
Shift Edge slider, 9
Smart Radius checkbox, 8, 48, 73, 192
Smooth slider, 8
steps for using, 5–9
View settings, 6, 19, 22, 48
Refine Radius tool, 20–22, 236
Reflected gradient, 97, 165, 243, 281
reflections, adding to images, 83, 84
Release Clipping Mask option, 241, 245
Remove Matte options, 29
renaming layers, 68, 350
Reselect command, 163
resizing
brushes, 3, 4, 13
images, 23, 52, 83, 96, 106
resources, 368–371
Reveal All command, 329
RGB channel, 267
Right Arrow key, 132
rotating images, 77, 235, 276
rough comp, 349
S
Sampled Colors option, 93
sampling
background color, 203
cloning and, 177, 356, 358
hair color, 25, 28
sky color, 93
samurai photo, 229, 235–237
Saturation slider, 69, 173, 186, 242, 269, 353
Save command, 173
saving
importance of regular, 173
photos as PSD files, 50, 69
Screen blend mode, 28, 178, 188, 248, 258
scrubby hand icon, 278
Seamless Tones and Colors checkbox, 215
Select All command, 83, 96, 161
selection tools
Color Range, 92–94, 351, 360
Quick Selection, 2, 3–5
selections
adjusting, 11–17
backgrounds for, xx, 6, 12
duplicating onto layers, 17
entire image, 96, 161, 232
hair extracted with, 18–23
inverting, 45, 333, 351
new features for, xii, xvii
outputting to layer masks, 9, 22, 48, 73
pasting images into, 96
softening edges of, 44
steps for making, 2–10
senior portrait composite, 91–117
background image preparation, 92–98
composite creation steps, 105–116
edgy effect added to, 113–116
final image example, 117
portrait image preparation, 99–104
SeventhStreet Studio, 371
Shadow slider, 255
shadows
adding, 52–55, 130–132, 152–154, 174, 352
blurring, 289, 352, 356
bringing out details in, 71
darkness adjustments, 111, 266, 352, 365
Opacity adjustments, 54, 132, 289, 352
Outer Glow effect for, 131, 152
removing from images, 331
Shadows/Highlights adjustment, 266
Shape layer, 277, 336–339
shapes
drawing, 277, 336–339
gradients for, 338, 340
transforming, 277, 278
sharpening
basic composite, 60
commercial composite, 366
illustrated composite, 342–343
motion composite, 85–86
movie poster composite, 250
Shift Edge slider, 9
shooting setup. See photography setup
Show Radius checkbox, 7
single-photo composite, 295–309
background texture for, 296, 307–308
composite creation steps, 296–303
final image example, 309
Outer Glow effect for, 304–306
text creation, 301–302
sizing/resizing
brushes, 3, 4, 13
images, 23, 52, 83, 96, 106
Skew command, 330
skies
adding clouds to, 94–95, 161, 232
sampling color from, 93–94
skin retouching, 110–111
Smart Objects
duplicating via copy, 108
working with photos as, 47, 50, 72, 167
Smart Radius checkbox, 8, 48, 73, 192, 231
smoke effects, 200–201, 257–258
Smooth slider, 8
Soft Light blend mode, 82, 109, 110, 300
softbox, xviii
softening
edges of selections, 44
motion blur effect, 81
Sonders, Douglas, 368, 370
sports template composite, 275–293
adding athletes to, 284–291
background image creation, 276–283
final image example, 292–293
shadows added to, 288–289
text creation, 281–283 See also action composites; studio sports portrait composite
Spot Healing Brush
blemish removal with, 104, 127
cleaning up distractions with, 43
line/crack removal with, 67
shadow removal with, 331
Stack Images radio button, 215
stock photography, xv, 200
Strength slider
HDR Toning dialog, 95
Merge to HDR Pro dialog, 255
stretching images, 64–65
Stroke layer style, 282
studio sports portrait composite, 159–183
background image preparation, 160–165
composite creation steps, 169–181
edgy effect added to, 179, 180
extracting the portrait for, 167–168
final image examples, 182–183
photography setup for, 166
portrait image preparation, 170–173
shadows added to, 174
subject image preparation
for basic composite, 46–50
for family/group portrait composite, 144–149
for motorcyclist in motion composite, 70–75
for movie poster composite, 235–237
for professional office composite, 123–128
for senior portrait composite, 99–104
for sports template composite,