Chapter 13
Single-Photo Composite
SINGLE-PHOTO COMPOSITE OPTIONAL TRICK #1 The first option is to put a glow around the smaller version of the football player. This is an old compositing trick to help hide any stray edges or fringes around the subject. I think our selection went really well, so we don’t have that problem, but it’s still a great way to add some depth to the image.
STEP ONE: Click on the smaller version of the player layer to target it and then click on the Add a Layer Style icon at the bottom of the Layers panel and choose Outer Glow. You can go two ways with this: First, you can leave the default color set to yellow and just increase the Size setting to around 25 and reduce the Opacity to 50% –60%.
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