Hi! This is Mama Shan with another video tutorial in our extracting image from a background series. Picking up where we left off in the last tutorial with the background city to image, where we are going to pick up is to add a clipping mask above the city skyline layer.
We are going to do this by going to the fly out menu and selecting the New Layer. When this dialogue box opens up, we are just going to call this “correction” and click the checkbox that says, use previous layer to create clipping mask. This is another way that you can create a clipping mask by going to the new layer menu item, and checking that box.
And, for the mode now, normally, we would press hue when we have a casts spill. This is not that type of situation, what we are going to have to do is darken up the fringing. So, instead of normal, I am going to start out with a multiply blending mode and click OK, because this is for the three areas here, and maybe by changing the slip layer down here, the color of that it will become more apparent. I will double click on the thumbnail here and let us pick maybe a more neutral color background, so that we can see what is going on, and click OK.
Click back on the correction layer that is in multiply blending mode, and initially, the process is going to be the same. I am going to spacebar control click to zoom in on the Tree areas, and we can see blue and white fringe around here that we will correct. And, the process is the same in that—I am going to select a soft airbrush, I am down here to airbrush soft round. And, I am going to put in normal blending mode at opacity 100% -- flow 100%, and just make this a little bit smaller. The diameter is a little bit too big there, so just hit return to get rid of that.
And, I will hold down the Alt key on a PC or Option on Mac, and I will select a green color here so that it places it in the foreground position, and the toolbar color swatch. And, I am just going to brush over this, now it looks very dark you know that is going to stop here, and then I am going to adjust the opacity of my layer until I can get that to blend a little bit better.
And, I may also check the color burn blending mode for the layer, it is a little too dark. I think I like multiply maybe even darken. Let us turn the visibility on and off, and look at that, that is the darkened blending mode, which looks quite nice. So, it is between darken, I got darken at 43% or multiply depending on the color you chose, you will adjust your opacity accordingly.
So, I am just going to stick with that for right now and just go around this edges, and because it is in the darken blending mode, and those little white areas I talked about in the previous video. You can see that they are been hidden quite well with this new blending mode. Come around here and just fix all that up like so.
I want to Alt click on a different color over here, so that is blending really quite nicely, and go visibility off and on so that has worked pretty well. Now, around the electrical pole here, I am just going to zoom in 200% on that. What I might want to do is try sampling that color and coming in and doing the same thing, now it gets rid of that little bit of a halo that is around that area.
I am going to hit Control minus on a PC, Command minus on a Mac, and just look in a couple of other areas over here. See, if I like the way they look, the spires are mainly looking at the top of the building, now it looks nice. So, at this point in time, I am going to save the document again and with layers palette, I am just going to group my Correction Layer and my City Skyline layer into a group. So, with those two selected and if you are in your versions, you would highlight one and click on the link column, and then create a group from the link layers.
In CS3, we will just choose a new group from layers. In previous versions, it would be new group from link layers. So, it knows to put that in there and I will just put “Skyline Group” and click OK. That way it is all inside of this little group if I need to, grab it and transfer it over into another document.
Now, in the next part of this series, we are going to create a flame background on the city and change its overall temperature and so Save this document again, I am just going to do a Ctrl+S to quickly save it, and we will see you for the next video.
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