How to Composite Images with Water in Photoshop

This lesson shows the basic steps to how to composite images.

• combine multiple images into one image
• use Bridge to navigate and find images
• drag and drop images into a Photoshop project
• determine the appropriate size for your composition
• create a new project to build a composition in
• cut down the size of an image into a manageable size, aka "de-size an image"
• use channels panels to toggle on and off individual channels
• use channels to make a selection
• use keyboard shortcuts to make a selection
• inverse a selection
• intensify a selection by duplicating layers and merging into one layer
• use hot keys to quickly maneuver within Photoshop
• colorize a background with hue/saturation adjustment
• extract a selection from a complicated image by using channels
• manipulate glass distort filter to resembler reflection of water on glass
• paint in areas using a hard brush to unmask select parts of mask
• darken edges of an object with burn tool
• undo darkened edges with dodge tool

In this video tutorial Tutvid explains how to composite water over an image as well as when to use the burn and dodge tools to manipulate the water's reflection.

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