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Step Eight: Now create another

blank layer and set its blend mode

to Overlay and its Opacity to 50%.

Press X to swap the Foreground

and Background colors, making

the Foreground white. Using the

same brush as before, paint over

the brighter highlights of the sub-

ject. This will enhance the detail and

even add a soft glow to the subject.

Step Nine: Now that we have the

subject in place, let’s begin adding

the special effects. We’ll start with

a smoke element for the pipe in his

hand. Open the Adobe Stock smoke

image. You’ll see it’s a simple smoke

element on a black background.

To quickly extract the smoke from

the background, open the Chan-

nels panel (Window>Channels)

and hold down the Command (PC:

Ctrl) key as you click on the RGB

channel thumbnail. This will create

a luminance-based selection, and

since it’s simple white smoke on a

black background, it will select all

the smoke.

©Adobe Stock/Deyan Georgiev