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[The Complete Picture with Julieanne Kost]
Hi, and welcome.
My name is Julieanne Kost, and in today's episode of The Complete Picture,
We're going to actually mask
a still image
so that we can play a video behind that still image
for a special effect.
So you can see I am starting in Light Room,
and I can click on the play button,
and we can view this video in Light Room,
but let's go ahead and bring it into Photoshop.
In order to do this, I'll tap the G key to go to Grid View,
and then I'll just drag this down to the Photoshop icon,
which will automatically open it in Photoshop.
Now because it's video,
Photoshop has already created a Video Group,
and we can see that over here in the Layers panel,
and we can see that the timeline here
when I click Play,
we can see that the video does, indeed, play in Photoshop CS6.
Excellent.
Now if we scoot to the end of the video,
you'll notice that this gentlemen walks into the frame,
so what I'm going to do is I'm going to scoot back a little bit
and trim the end of that clip off
by just clicking and dragging.
All right, now what I'd like to have happen
is I would like to have just part of the waterfall
be flowing and the rest of the waterfall be still,
so in order to do that, I'm going to do a quick Select All,
which is Command or Ctrl A,
and then I need to go to the Edit menu
and choose Copy Merge.
When I select Copy Merge,
no matter what is visible,
that content will be copied to the clipboard,
so that I can then use Edit and then Paste this.
Now when I pasted this layer,
we can see at the right side of my Timeline
that Photoshop has pasted it inside of the Video Group.
I don't actually want the layer inside the Video Group,
so I'm going to click and drag it about the Video Group
until I just see that 1 line on top of it,
and then I'll release and that will take it out of the Video Group.
Now on the Timeline, I can simply drag to re-position this clip
at the start of the video clip,
and then I can extend the duration of it
all the way to the end.
So now if I tape the space bar in order to play the Timeline,
we can see that nothing's moving,
because I have the still image of the waterfall
directly on top of the video underneath.
Well, let's return back to the beginning of the timeline,
and I'm going to add a mask to Layer 2;
in fact, let's rename this by just double click on it,
so that we know that I'm talking about this still image here.
In order to add a mask, I'll click the Mask icon at the bottom of the Layers panel,
and by default, the mask is linked with the image,
but I probably don't want that linked,
so I'm going to un-click the little link icon;
this way, I can move the mask independently of this still image.
Now with the mask targeted in the Layers panel,
I'm going to tap the G key, which will give me the gradient,
and I'll select the 4th gradient here, which is the reflected gradient.
You can see that my foreground and background color
are set to black and white,
and I'll click and drag a gradient
in this mask.
Now we can't see that in the image itself,
but we can see it down here in the Layers panel,
and I can also toggle the visibility of this mask
by tapping the backslash key.
Now what we can see is the mask overlay with red.
So I'll grab my Move tool by tapping the V key,
and then I'm going to scoot this mask over to the right,
and I'm holding the Shift key in order to constrain the movement
so that it only moves left to right.
Now, I'm going to switch tools; I'll grab the Paint Brush
by tapping the B key,
and again painting with black, I'm going to add to this mask
just in this area right here.
Excellent.
Now, all I need to do is re-position this mask
and then we can start adding key frames.
So again, with the Move tool selected by tapping the V key,
I'll hold on this Shift key again, and I'm going to move the mask all the way to the left-hand side,
because this is where I want the mask to start,
and then over time, I'm going to move the mask to the right,
and we're just going to see that small slice of the waterfall moving.
In order to tell Photoshop to record the position of the mask,
I'll use the little triangle here, this disclosure triangle
on my still image,
and we'll come down to the Layer Mask position.
I'll click on the stop watch in order to tell Photoshop
to keep track of what I'm doing
or keep track of where the Layer Mask position is,
and as soon as I click that, you'll notice that it added a Key frame.
Now I can move through time to the end of the clip in the still,
and I can re-position, again using the Move tool,
my mask to the right hand side,
and as I re-position that, I let go of the mouse,
you can see that Photoshop's automatically added another Key frame for me.
Now let's toggle off the visibility of the mask
either by tapping that backslash key
or you can see right here in the Channel panel,
I can just hide the visibility by clicking of the Mask icon.
I'll also click on the RGB, the Composite channel here,
and now, we can see that the mask is no longer selected,
but the still image is instead.
All right, let's return back to the beginning of our timeline,
and I can do this by clicking on this icon right here,
and then I'll tap the space bar
or we can click the Play button,
and we can watch how the mask moves from left to right
across the image,
and we can see that the waterfall plays only through that masked area.
So that's how easy it is
to add a mask
to a still image, which is hiding,
moving video underneath,
and then using that mask and moving that mask over time
in order to create a special effect.
My name is Julieanne Kost. Thanks for joining me.
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