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Anyone who’s used Photoshop CS3 (or prior) versions and tried to composite a human subject into an existing light setup knows that they eventually hit a wall with Levels, Curves, Color Balance and—even in desperate situations—Brightness/Contrast adjustments to match the environment. Careful use of the Dodge tool ( O ) in the right tone range can allow you to simulate key – and fill-light spill on your superimposed objects. [ The Dodge and Burn tools are more darkroom-like in Photoshop CS4—Ed. ]
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Corey shows you how to make a new photo look damaged by blending in some unusual textures.
Use Photoshop’s new 3D tools to create some dazzling background effects.
In the second part of this tutorial, Corey finishes creating this illustration of a striking match.
In this two part tutorial we are going to illustrate a close-up of a match strike from scratch in Photoshop.
If you have multiple shots of the same subject and would like to be able to group them, image stacks are a good idea. Either Shift-click or Command-click (PC: Ctrl-click) on the images that you would like to group and press Command-G (PC: Ctrl-G). This will create a stack of the images. You can expand the stack by pressing Command-Right Arrow (PC: Ctrl-Right Arrow) or collapse the stack back into itself by pressing on Command-Left Arrow (PC: Ctrl-Left Arrow).