How to make silhouette of people under the starry sky?

A friend asked: How to make a silhouette of people under the stars? In order to achieve this effect, we use PS software to make it. In the process of making, we mainly used two functions: Add layer mask and Hue/Saturation. Below, Bian Xiao shares the operation steps for your reference.

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Pull the picture into the operation interface and automatically generate the background layer.

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Press the P key again to bring up the pen tool, draw a path for people and part of the ground, and then press CTRL+ENTER to convert the path into a selection.

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Move the mouse to the bottom of the layer panel and click the "Add layer mask" button to add a mask to the layer.

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Therefore, the present figures and part of the ground have been dug up. Then, let's adjust the mask Right-click the layer mask pop-up menu here, and click: Select and Overwrite.

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In the pop-up operation panel, "smooth" the parameters here to give a little; The parameter "Contrast" here is also given a little, and then "Purify color" is checked; Confirm again.

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At this point, a new layer is automatically generated. Then, the original layer is useless. Let's press DELETE to delete the useless layer.

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Then, we drag the starry sky pictures directly from the computer desktop. And pull the starry sky picture layer under the character layer.

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Click the character layer with the mouse to select this layer; Then click the Adjust Layer button at the bottom of the Layers panel to bring up its menu bar.

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Click "hue/saturation" in the menu bar; Bring up its operation panel. Click the button shown by the arrow in the figure below.

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Then set the Brightness parameter to-100; Then, close the operation panel; Move the mouse to the canvas and adjust the position of the outline. Then, here, the silhouette effect of people under the stars is completed. The effect is shown in the figure below.