Subtitles of the Movie

Now, we're about 90 percent completed with this project and everything we do from this point forward is going to be tweaking and really just doing some refinement, but those refinements are really going to make the difference between an amateurish effort and something that really makes people go wow. So pay attention here because this stuff, even though it is small in its touchup, it is rather important. One of the most important things we need to do here is establish depth of field between Laura and the background. So we're going to put some blur in there. So now that we have this background blurred, let's move it around to kind of help us blend in those areas along the foliage that are white that are showing up. We can kind of halfway blend all that out and I know we have a white part over here. We can crop that, so just bear with us. I think that's about got it right there. Alright. We are getting near. Take a look up close and see how we are and we notice that we've got some hard edges here, don't we? We've got a lot of hard edges and we can smooth those out real easily. Let me show you a trick on how to do that. We go to our layers palette and let's see. How do we want to attack this? Let's flatten everything we've done so far, establish two new layers, go to the middle one and let's put some, some motion blur, just a little bit of Motion Blur on that hair. I think we can sell that. That's something you would normally see in an image. Ok, so that looks real good. And we're going to invoke layer masks once again, so we're going to activate our top layer, bring in our layer mask, we'll get our paintbrush and opacity at 49 percent looks about right and let's just bring some of that hair out. Ah, problem is we didn't have our black activated, so let's go back, try it again and we can see we've taken out the hard edges on that hair. Now, the great thing about Motion Blur is that we can use the same Motion Blur to smooth out the hard edges on the image. Make it blend in better. See how that kind of just makes it more realistic? And use that all the way around because we do get a little aggressive on some of these hard edges and they're a little bit too hard, so we can smooth those out with Motion Blur. Just pretend you don't see this little discoloration down here. Close your eyes. And there we have it. We've got a regulation photograph there and that's how we do that. So wait, let's crop. We're about to get rid of that white area over there. And by cropping we can get rid of this area here that we didn't deal with. And now you know just about everything there is to know about channel masks or alpha masks and you should be able to review some of these lessons and take your own photographs and do some really, really spectacular stuff.