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Using This Layer and Underlying Layer

Using This Layer and Underlying Layer - Photoshop Tutorial

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Using This Layer and Underlying Layer

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- [Instructor] In this movie we'll take this mess of an affect we've created so far. And we'll turn it into this awesome piece of artwork here in which the sun appears to be attacking its favorite planet with lightning. And we'll be doing so using the luminance exclusion sliders. That is to say this layer and underlying layer. Right? So I'll go ahead and switch over to the thing I created in the previous movie. Turn off the big gradient layer. Select the lightening layer. And double-click on an empty portion of the layer. That's generally the best way to go. Or if it's a pixel based layer like this one, you can double-click on its thumbnail. And that's going to bring up the Layer Style dialog box as we're seeing right here. And I'm going to start things off by making portions of the active layer transparent. And so bear in mind, the active layer is the lightening. The underlying layer in our case is the enormous sun.…

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