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Summary: Adjust brightness and contrast controls to blend Photoshop background. Learn how create and render a space scene in this free computer graphics tutorial from a Photoshop professional.
Robert Segundo has been an artist since he could hold a pencil. In his 10 years in graphic design, he has worked on advertising projects with costs ranging in millions of dollars. He...read more
"So now let's add a little bit more texture and depth to our star field. As we can see here we already have it up and we've already did a brightness contrast once. So, let's do it again. We're going do do just another one. Let's come up here adjustments - brightness contrast. There we go. Now this time I'm going to take my brightness down quite a bit. Take my contrast down a little bit too. I just want to kind of blend this back out to the background. There we go. Now we've got a little bit more depth. It doesn't look like we have way too many stars. This looks kind of like it should. A lot of stars kind of in the background like so. So, we're going to go ahead and accept this. What we're going to do is we're going to grab this layer. We're going to go ahead and copy it down like so and create a second layer. Now what we're going to do is we're going to enlarge this layer. So, let's go to edit - transform, and let's say we're going to scale this like so. Let's scale it. Let's go ahead and lock this right here by clicking that. Let's scale this by two hundred percent. There we go. Now we've got some big stars in the foreground here. So, we're going to accept that and hit enter. Actually let's just change our tool. Oops. Not like so. Change my tool and of course it will ask if I want to apply the transformation. Of course apply. Now let's come down here and hit. Let's go down and say screen. What this will do is this will blend the bigger stars in with the stars in the background. So, there you see now we have a little bit of texture going on. So, what we're going to do is we're going to kind of stop here and we'll pick this up in the next part."
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