- [Instructor] All right, now I cannot in good conscience,
leave this composition in this condition,
which is why in this movie, I'm going to show you how
I achieve this effect here,
where this guy appears to be coming out of the clouds.
This has nothing to do with the new features
inside Photoshop 2021.
If you're all about the new features,
skip to the next chapter.
All right, this is just a demo so it's going to be quick.
I'm going to start off by cleaning up these edges,
by creating a new layer,
which you can do by pressing Control + Shift + End
or Command + Shift + End on the Mac.
I'll call this layer edges,
I'll turn on use previous layer to create clipping mask
and I'll change the mode to multiply.
So we're darkening up the edges, I'll click OK.
All right now I'll switch to the brush tool,
which you can get by pressing the B key
and I want a big brush, so I'll right-click inside the image
and I'll take the size value up to 200 pixels.
I want a hardness value of 0%.
So I'll press the Enter key or the Return key on the Mac
to accept that change.
Now, I want to lift a shade of purple from the background
and so I'll press and hold the Alt key or the Option key
on the Mac to temporarily access the eyedropper
and I'll click right about there
in order to lift that shade of purple like so.
Now I'll just go ahead and brush around the edges
of this guy's hair.
You want to take it easy around his ears, by the way.
So kind of move your cursor away from the ears
if you're trying to work along with me
and just paint around the hair itself
and you'll get this effect here.
Now things are going to look a lot better
if he's a little bit purplish.
So I'll go ahead and click on the dude layer right there
and then I'll click on the FX icon
and I'll choose color overlay.
Now by default, I ended up with this gray effect right here,
which is nothing like what I want.
So I'll click on the color swatch to bring up
the color picker dialog box and I'll once again,
click on a shade of purple right there.
And if you're getting a shade of gray instead,
that's because your layer mask is selected.
In any event, I'll click OK to accept that change.
I'll set the blend mode to hue
so that we're blending the hue values
along with his original saturation and luminance levels
and we'll take the opacity value down to 33%.
So we end up with just a little bit
of purpelization like so and I'll press the Enter key
or the Return key on the Mac to accept that change.
Now I want to mask him into the clouds
and so I'll select both of these layers
by clicking on one Shift + clicking on the other,
click on the fly out menu icon in the top right corner
of the layers panel and choose new group from layers.
And I'll go ahead and call this guy more mask
and then I'll click OK.
And the reason I'm calling it more mask
is because I'm going to add some more mask.
And so I'll twirl this guy open
just so I can see the layers inside the group
And then I'll drop down to the add layer mask icon
at the bottom of the layers panel and click on it.
Now what you want to do is scroll up just a little bit
like so and I'm going to turn off that dude layer right there
so that I can see through to the clouds.
This still allows me to adjust the mask by the way
and then I'll press the right bracket key a couple of times
in order to increase the size of the brush to 300 pixels
as we're seeing on the far left side of the options bar.
I'll tap the D key for the default colors.
So the foreground color is white
and then I'll press the X key in order to swap 'em
so the foreground color is black.
And now I'll just go ahead and paint along here like so,
inside these clouds and then I'll paint up
this cloud ridge as well.
Now I'm not seeing what I'm doing,
however, I am able to see what I'm tracing.
And then if I turn that dude layer back on,
you can see that he's nicely masked into the clouds
and I can still paint a little more
on that shoulder if I want to.
All right, now press Ctrl + 0,
Cmd + 0 on the Mac to center my zoom.
I'll switch back to that dude layer
and I want him to be darker down here at the bottom.
So I'll click on the FX icon once again
and choose gradient overlay.
And this time I'll click this down pointing arrowhead
right here in order to bring up my basics.
And you can see that one of them's going to be
foreground to transparent, that's the one I want.
So I'll just go ahead and select that guy.
If you want to confirm that you have the right effect,
you can click on that gradient ramp,
just make sure it goes from purple to purple if you like,
you don't need that second purple.
We just want a big purple gradient that goes from
100% opacity to 0% opacity.
At which point I'll click, OK.
A style of linear and an angle value of 90 degrees
are exactly what I want.
However, I'm going to take the scale value down to 50% like so.
I'll change the blend mode to multiply once again
and then I'll move my dialogue box out of the way
so I can drag inside the image window
to move the gradient down,
so that it mostly covers his neck
without covering that much of his face.
At which point I'll go ahead and click, OK
in order to accept that change.
And now if I press Shift + F,
I can switch to the full screen mode.
At which point, I'll go ahead and zoom on in
and just so we can see what we've done.
This is the version of the image that we saw at the outset
of this movie and this is how it looks now.
Thanks to a few old school compositing tricks
that I happened to pull off inside Photoshop 2021.