Combining Images III
page threeDuplicate the background (bottle) layer and drag it above the woman’s layer in the Layers palette. Set its blend mode to Multiply, and put its layer opacity at 30 %. The blend mode menu is in the upper left corner of the Layers palette, and the opacity slider is in the upper right corner.
Now, she’s dark enough, but the coffee and the salt are taking over the picture. You need to make her face more visible.
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Add a Levels adjustment layer to the top of the Layers stack. Do this
by first clicking on the topmost layer in the Layers palette. New layers
are added above the currently selected layer.
Click on the Create New Adjustment Layer
button at the bottom of the Layers palette (the black and white circle)
and choose Levels from the menu.
In the Levels dialog, change the white Input
Levels value to be 215. Leave the others where they are.
With the adjustment layer still selected in the Layers palette, press
the D key to make sure the default mask edit colors are showing (white
for foreground, black for background). Then choose the gradient
tool in the toolbox. On its options bar, make sure Reverse is not
checked, and choose the Radial option (PS 7 has these new, color icons).
With the gradient
tool, click in the middle of the woman’s face (on her nose) and
drag straight to the left, releasing the mouse button when you get to
the edge of the picture. The radial gradient on the adjustment layer mask
will gradually remove the Levels adjustment from everywhere except the
woman’s face.
You can see the final Layers
palette with the masked Levels adjustment, below. The final image
is at the bottom of this section.
This technique works for anything transparent, including water, and see-through
fabrics.
If you are particularly interested in learning how to make great composite images, please take a look at my CD-ROM, Shadows and Light; Advanced Compositing in Photoshop. Thanks.
If you would like to download a zipped pdf file of this tutorial, please
click on the link below, and save it to your hard drive.
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