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Step 10: Click on the white Back-
ground layer in the Layers panel,
and press Command-I (PC: Ctrl-I) to
invert it to black (your tree may be a
little darker and harder to see than
what’s shown here, but don’t worry
about that for now.). Now let’s add
a starry-night background. You can
certainly try several different ones,
depending on the scene. This one
is simply an image of scattered stars
from Adobe Stock. If you’d like to
download the low-res watermarked
version of this image to follow
along, click this link, log in with
your Adobe ID, and click the Save to
Library button. Drag the image from
the Libraries panel (Window>Librar-
ies), drop it in your working file, and
then move this layer to the bottom
of the layer stack just above the
Background layer. Use the trans-
form handles to scale the sky into
the canvas area, and press Enter.
To give the sky a little bit of atmo-
spheric distance, lower the layer
Opacity to 75%. Different sky images
may require more or less Opacity, so
adjust as necessary.Step 11: To give the stars even a
little more distance, go to the Filter
menu, to Blur, and choose Gauss-
ian Blur. A very small blur Radius of
.5 pixels is all that’s needed here.
Click OK.©Adobe Stock/SkyLine