Tough Guy - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 361

10%, dodge and burn the model's skin to enhance highlight and shadow areas,
burning down the hairline and so on.
Tip
Notice how the model's jacket looks like it's had dodging and burning already
applied? This is because of the sheen on the jacket's material. When you're pho-
tographing models for themed shoots, give some thought to how the clothing will
look under the light; it could save you lots of retouching time later.
Creating a New Background Using Textures
Now we're going to start adding the new background. Because our model is in front of a
gray background, we'll use the blend mode compositing technique covered in Chapter 2 .
I'm going to use the same texture several times, but you could use many different textures
to build a completely unique look.
1. Go to File > Place Embedded (File > Place in earlier versions of Photoshop), loc-
ate the texture file to be added, and click OK. Resize the texture so that it fills the
document by Option/Alt-Shift-dragging one of the corner transform handles. Press
Return/Enter.
2. To add the texture onto the gray background, change the blend mode to either Soft
Light or Overlay (depending on the amount of contrast you want in the back-
ground).
3. Add another texture, or duplicate the one we just added by pressing Command/
Ctrl-J. Then choose Edit > Transform > Flip Horizontal. To avoid the sides of the
background looking identical, add a layer mask and with a black brush paint away
some of the repeating patterns or marks. Repeat this process until you get the look
you're after ( Figure 7.8 ) .