Selections and Cutouts - The Photoshop: Professional Retouching and Compositing Tips, Tricks, and Techniques - page 18

Figure 1.18 The cutout layer of the athlete including the layer mask
Note
When dragging on top of the new background tab, wait for the image to open,
continue to drag into the image area, and then release.
Now that the athlete is cut out and in position with a new background, in the following sec-
tion I'll show you how to improve the cutout further with a layer style.
Improving Cutouts with Layer Styles
Here's a great little trick you can use to show more of those fine fly-away hairs and make
your cutout look even better.
This technique uses a layer style, which is normally attached to a layer, but I'll show you
how to make it more user friendly.
1. Staying with the athlete image and making sure that the cutout is the active layer,
click the fx icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Inner Shadow ( Fig-
ure 1.19 ) .