Paige Posted February 1, 2016 Posted February 1, 2016 What's the best way to do this? I'm posting the sky I want with the dog and foreground I want. I don't know how to select fur. :-O Thank you 1
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 YES!!! I should have said, straighten the horizon, but the fur was the main thing!! How did you do it??
Damien Symonds Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Well, it was a variation of this method. I opened the sky photo, and (on a new layer) cloned out the pole and stuff. I saved that sky photo as a PSD file, and closed it. I opened the dog photo, and File>Place to insert the sky photo onto the dog photo. I lined up the horizon as accurately as possible. I applied a sufficient amount of blur to the sky to be plausible. Then I duplicated that sky layer. I turned the top one off, and returned to the bottom one for the time being. I changed its blend mode to "Multiply", and masked it around the head of the dog. In some areas, where the sky was quite light, the masking was very easy, I could let the sky encroach onto the fur naturally. In other areas, where the sky was darker, I had to zoom in and patiently and carefully mask until it looked good. Then I returned to the top copy, which was still on "Normal" blend mode, and masked it in everywhere else. Finally, I added a Levels layer to make the bottom of the sky a bit lighter, so it plausibly matched the existing horizon. If you can allow me a few minutes, I'll upload the PSD file so you can follow along. 4
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 Thank you!! It looks WAY better than mine!!
Damien Symonds Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Gah! I just had an internet outage. Of all the times ... I'll try and upload the file again ... 2
Damien Symonds Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 Download the PSD file Sorry it's so big. Usually I try to make them smaller and easier to download, but it wasn't possible with this one. 3
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 It looks amazing. I guess I need remedial masking lessons.
Damien Symonds Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 http://www.damiensymonds.net/trainingialm.html
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 Do you have any tutorials that shows these steps in more detail?
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 I found this one! This is similar to what you did, isn't it?http://www.damiensymonds.net/replace-background-hair
Damien Symonds Posted February 2, 2016 Posted February 2, 2016 4 minutes ago, Paige said: I found this one! This is similar to what you did, isn't it?http://www.damiensymonds.net/replace-background-hair That's the link I gave you in the very first sentence of the long explanation post, didn't you see it?
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 NO!! I totally missed it, but found it pretty easily on your site!! I'm studying THAT right now! Thanks so much for your help!! 1
Paige Posted February 2, 2016 Author Posted February 2, 2016 Damien, I now see that you put a LINK to that tutorial. I didn't realize that when I first read the message! lol 1
Damien Symonds Posted February 3, 2016 Posted February 3, 2016 How did you go with this, Paige? May we see what you created?
Paige Posted February 4, 2016 Author Posted February 4, 2016 Damien, I am going to take your masks class because I see that you did what I needed done, but I don't "get" it all yet. 1
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