OK—I’ll admit this demo is prepped with “easy” high contrast images for this to come together without snags……So how about doing this with color images that happen to be a little darker around the edges and not such a “perfect demo”? Well, here’s a “real life project” for you to see how easy it still is~with straight images!! You will be amazed! (Fig 10a, 10b)
For this comp of Hollie, I created a 10x20 and filled it with white—not pure white, but white with detail (245-245-245). How? Take the Curves adjustment layer and click on OPTIONS to set your white and black colors to be 245-245-245 and 9-9-9 in the options. (Fig 11) Then click on your white background with the white dropper and it will be 245-245-245!
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