Adding Background Effects in Adobe Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi! this is Kyle with Expert Village and I am going to give you some tips on layers with photo shop. Now, when we check the background out against it, it looks good, now the reason it looks good is I went through again the layers, the style and I blended it and I will make sure that it was well blended, on this one, it was hard light because I have checked the other ones, nothing else and it doesn’t look good. So, the only one that really works is the hard light. So I am going to leave it on that. Now, basically view, fit on screen if you hit this or hit control and zero and it will go to that, this shows you the full picture, that way you can step back and take a look. Now, let us go up the layers again, as we go up different layers, what was this one, this layer it was simply stars, stars you can find a picture of stars, or you can just go down, take your little paint brush tool, go to brush and then hit, instead of black, right click it, go to really light white. I didn’t want to go to white since there is sky, the Hollywood sign and stuff so I went to more of a little bit of yellowish, now if you want to match the color, you just go over to the actual color and you try to click right on what you want to match. Say, if I want to match this blue, see it goes right to it. If I want to match the color of the Hollywood sign letters, it goes right to it. So, what I want to do is only match this. So, what I do now if you are going to make a star way too big, you want a little tiny star. So, you go down to that and let us just go with white so that way it stands out a little bit. There you go, little tiny stars, little white stars all around and you may or may not, the longer you hold it down, say if you go like this, it makes you don’t want that, but hit it, undo, but as you hit just the button, boom! makes it a tiny little star or you can hold it down for a second and then it will make a little bit deeper star. Now, if you want some variation this is size six, may be let us try out the size like 11, little bigger stars. If you want to scatter little bit varier these almost look like they are big dipper here. So, we have that layer, now let us go back up the layers. "