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OK.

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Let's talk a little bit
about backgrounds again,

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but this time we'll see
how you can digitally

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change the background.

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Now, if you remember
from previous tutorials,

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we discussed collecting
interesting backgrounds

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to use while making the
images, whether you're

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working with the flatbed
scanner or a camera.

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But sometimes we're
in a bit of a rush,

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as I was while making this
initial image of these two

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paper devices.

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At the time, I didn't think
about enhancing the image

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by including an
interesting background,

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maybe to pop out the
devices visually.

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So after I made the image
on the flatbed scanner,

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this is what we got.

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And as we zoom in,
we see a problem.

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A bit of a mess with all
sorts of stuff all over it.

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That's the price I pay
for being in a hurry

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and not cleaning
the glass that day.

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Hint, hint.

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So because of the
presence of all

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of this extraneous
material, we can't simply

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select the background with,
let's say, the Magic Wand,

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and fill in that selected
area with the color.

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The algorithm for
that selection tool

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will not select the dirty spots.

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And the Paint Bucket
won't do it either.

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You see here that the Paint
Bucket filling the background

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will not fill in the
dirty bits either.

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So that's not going to work.

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Let's undo that
with Command-Z. What

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I'm going to wind up doing, if I
want to change this background,

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is to do it in a different way.

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Let me show you how.

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We're going to try.

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OK.

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I'll use the Polygonal Lasso.

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And I'll enlarge this
again and move it over.

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Watch how I select
what is initially

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going to be selecting
just the two devices.

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This will take a bit,
so we can speed up

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the video a little
bit, not to bore

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you too much-- although a little
boredom is good for the soul.

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OK.

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I'm getting there.

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Almost there.

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OK.

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Here we go.

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So what's going on is that I
selected, in fact, actually

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a couple of things.

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If you really think about it,
yes, I selected the devices,

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but if you go to the
inverse of the selection,

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that means it will invert
the selection to everything

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other than the devices, which
means the full background.

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Now that I'm completely
selecting the full background,

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I'm going to fill
it with the color

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that I previously selected.

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It's shown as the
foreground color at 100%.

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And here we go.

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And the background is filled.

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Now I want to show you
a little extra which I

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think is worth thinking about.

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I'm going to once again
go to the selection menu

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and invert the
selection once again, so

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that we are, in fact, back
to selecting the devices.

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I'm going to open up the
Layers window because I'm

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going to show you that we're
working just, at this point,

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with one layer.

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OK.

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Here we go.

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Here's the Layers window.

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So remember, I first
selected this, inverted

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the selection, which
selected the background,

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and inverted it back again
to select the devices,

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so we are back to
selecting the devices.

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I'm now going to make a
layer of these devices

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by copying it-- that's
Command-C-- which has just

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copied the selected
devices, and then Command-B,

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which has pasted
what I just copied,

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creating basically another
layer of just the devices.

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You can't see that
because the copy

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layer is identical
to the devices

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in the original
background image.

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Now what I'm going to do
is something I think is fun

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and I think helpful
to the image.

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I'm going to go to
Layers, then Layer Style.

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Now remember, we're
talking about what

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is labeled here as Layer One.

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I'm going to create a
drop shadow, which I like.

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You can play around with
the various qualities,

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like angle of the
shadow, distance

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of the shadow, the
spread, the size,

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but watch as I change these
particular characteristics.

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What you're seeing
here is a drop shadow.

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OK.

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I'm going to say OK.

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I'm going to zoom
in a little bit

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to show you what
we've done-- created

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the shadow in that layer only.

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I'm going to make this new
layer invisible to show

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you the difference.

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Here is how the background,
the original image,

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looks on its own, and here
it is with the drop shadow.

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So for me this looks
a little bit more

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like the initial image with
its own shadows on the flatbed.

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One more thing.

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I'm going to convert the image
into a more horizontal image.

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Sometimes you want
to add more space,

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either making it more
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to fit it for a certain format.

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So the color with which we
want to extend the image

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is this color.

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That needs to be in
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when we increase canvas size.

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OK.

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I'm going to go to the image.

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Canvas Size.

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And here, I think
this might work.

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And if it doesn't, we
can add a little more

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to change the width,
making the image longer.

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Let's just go, let's make it 15.

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So the algorithm will divide
the additional five inches

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on both sides of the
image, keeping in mind

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that the original
image is placed

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in the center of that process.

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And here is the revamped image.

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It gives us a little
more space on both sides.

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So the last thing
I'm going to show you

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is just a little
bit of labeling.

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So I'd like to insert
a label indicating

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that this area from here
to there is a centimeter.

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But before we do that,
we still have two layers.

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So let's flatten the
image, so there, we're

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only working with one layer.

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As you see, there's only
one in the window now.

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I'm going to take our
line, trying it in white.

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You can try in black or
whatever color you want.

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OK, that's not bad.

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Let me undo this.

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That's Command-Z. I want the
lines to be a little closer

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to the area that I'm
connecting it to.

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There's one.

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There's another.

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It's OK.

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We're going to add some
text, which I think I'm also

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going to make in white.

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And I'm going to label
it, let's say 1cm.

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And then-- that's too small.

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Let's see, it's 18
using your style.

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Let's go to 24 points
and see how that looks.

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Almost there.

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I'll go back to move
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That should do it.

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Yeah.

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I like it.