Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Step 11:
Press-and-hold the Command (PC: Ctrl) key
and, in the Layers panel, click directly on the
selected football player's thumbnail. This
puts the original selection back around him.
Now, hide the layer by clicking on the little
Eye icon to the left of the layer's thumbnail.
This hides the layer from view, but leaves
the selection still in place. Now, click on the
background image layer (Layer 1) to make
it active, with your selection still in place.
Here's what we're going to do next: we're
going to take that selection (in the exact
shape of our player—spiky hair and all)
from our background image layer and we're
going make it its own layer (so, you'll have
a football player-shaped layer filled with the
background image). This will make more
sense when you see it in the next step.
Step 12:
Now, while your selection is in place and
you're on that background image layer,
press
Command-J (PC: Ctrl-J)
to make
a player-shaped background image layer.
Drag this background-filled player shape
to the top of the layer stack, then hide the
background image layer to get what we
have here. This is what we created with our
selection, and it's exactly what we're going
to use to help us match the color of the
player with the color of the background
image—so he looks like he was shot on
location (instead of in my studio). Now,
you have to get that selection back around
this shape again, so Command-click (PC:
Ctrl-click) on the layer thumbnail for this
background shape to reload the selection
around it.
