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Summary: Erasing Photoshop layers to allow underlying layer to show through. 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
"Now that we're into this, let's go ahead and clean our nebula cloud up just a little bit. As you can see here, I have a lot of bleed through, and stuff like this, and I kind of like this part down here, but I 'm not so crazy about this up here. So, I'm just going to go ahead and get rid of this. I'm going to go ahead, and leave these linked. I'm going to go ahead and hit eraser, which now it's not allowing me to do. Let's go up here; there we go. And when I start erasing, what it should do, and what it's not doing is erasing that one I'm looking for. Let's go ahead, and erase this part here. There we go. Well I've got it on fade eraser, so let's change our eraser. You can actually key in our strength of our opacity. Let's go ahead and hit one hundred, there we go, and holding down our shift key, and our there we go, says that it's as far soft as it's going to be. Let's go ahead, increase the size a little bit, and always remember to use your shortcut keys. Those work best for us. Let's go ahead and let's cut some of this out. There we go, and I want to take out, I want to take out a good bit, but I don't want to take out too much. There we go, there we go, that's starting to look more what I'm looking for right here. There we go that's the cloud I'm looking for right there; that will work perfectly. Let's clean some of this out back here, wonderful. Let's go ahead, and exit this brush, go back into our pick tool, there we go. Now what we need to do is we need to add a little bit more stars, some more foreground stars. So, let's create a new layer. Actually, I created two here by accident by double-clicking, but that's fine. Let's go ahead and rename this layer, oops cancel. Well, come on, aaah whatever, we're just going to go ahead, and go into our brush tool. We're going to go ahead and hit D and X, and there we go. Now we have a white pallet here. Now let's go ahead, and bring our dot down a little bit. Let's go ahead and let's let control Z that out. Now let's go ahead and key in. Now, with your number pad you can key in your brush opacity, so let's go ahead all you've got to do is just type it, so let's go ahead and set this to eighty. That's better; that's a lot softer star. There we go, and now we can just come through here, and manually add some stars that really catch our imagination here, and make our photo flow just a little bit. Let's go ahead and take this down. So I'm going to go ahead, I'm going to get out of here, and we'll pick this back up in the next part. "
eHow Article: Nebula Cloud Adjustments for Photoshop Space Scene