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BLENDER DEMO PART 1 - LIGHTING EFFECTS
In this demo, we will bring an object that has flat lighting (theblender) into another image (Russ the magician) and light it so that it appears to be in the scene. We will do all of this without the aid of the Lighting Effects filter, or the Levels or Curves dialog boxes. Wewill do this with layers!
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With both your back-ground and your objectimage open in Photoshop,create or load the selectionof the object. Here we loadedthe selection of the blender,which we already made andsaved as a channel.
Loading selections
A shortcut to loadingan existing selectionis to press Option/Alt+Command/Ctrl+4(4 corresponds tothe number of thechannel). To load theselection of an objectthat is on a transpar-ent background, theshortcut is Command/Ctrl+click the layer inthe Layers palette.
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Using the move tool, dragthe selected image into thebackground image. Movethe object into position.Double-click the new layerand name it.
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The original blenderimage is too light, in relationto the background image.So we need to increase thedensity of the blender. Here’show we can do that withoutusing levels or curves.Duplicate the Blender layerby dragging it onto the NewLayer icon at the bottom of the Layers palette. Set themode of this new layer toMultiply by using the Modepop-up menu in the Layerspalette.
Multiply mode
The Multiply modeis the equivalent of placing two transpar-encies over each otherand viewing them ona light table. Multiplymode combines thedensities of the twolayers and darkens theimages, just as it isdoing here.
Shortcuts
Throughout thisdocument, “Command/Ctrl”, means Commandon the Macintosh andCtrl on Windows.“Option/Alt” meansOption on the Macand Alt on Windows.
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