Create a FANTASY COMPOSITE in Photoshop!! - Abstract Photography

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- What's up, everybody, Peter
McKinnon here, and today,

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we're talking about how you
can take photos like this

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and turn them into this,
by creating your own

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Fantasy Composite Photos in Photoshop.

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And whoo, does it look badass.

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Pow, almost hit myself
in the face on that one.

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Intro!

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(upbeat rock music)

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Whoa, okay, you might be asking yourself,

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Pete, what's a composite?

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And I would say to you,
imagine a beautiful yacht

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in the middle of the ocean.

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Two chicks are on the edge of that yacht,

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sipping champagne, there's
a flock of birds above,

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some dude is perfect
mid-Pocahontas swan dive

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off the tail end, there's a
couple scuba diving below,

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surrounded by a beautiful,
colorful school of fish,

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a shark in the distance, and
you say to yourself, how?

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How could that picture be taken?

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Well, I will tell you how, chances are,

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it was taken in several different stages.

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The chicks were taken separately,

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the dude swan diving was separate,

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the birds added in post,
the fish added in post,

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maybe taken separately,
but the main point is,

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all of these items were
taken and put together

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into what's called a composite image.

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Now, why I call this Fantasy
composites is because

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if you think about it, that yacht scenario

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could very well happen,
you look at that shot,

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and you're like, cool, yacht
party, that's a good photo.

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They did that very well.

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However, Banff National Park
coming out of your dryer

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is not possible, and
that is why I love it.

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Because you're presenting
someone with something

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that they have never
seen before, and maybe

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would never have thought
of ever being able to see.

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You're just creating this brand-new thing.

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It's like the first time
you saw a light saber,

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and you were like, whoa,
why doesn't that exist?

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That's the coolest thing
ever, cheers, George.

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The key is just looking
at things differently.

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We walk by our dryers every day,

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we open the fridge every day,

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you put dogfood in the dog bowl every day.

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These are all potential
photo opportunities

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that we can create these
abstract composites from,

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using photos that we already
have in our archives.

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I took that shot in Banff like,

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a year and a half to two years ago,

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and now I'm able to fuse
these two things together

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to create something brand-new

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that's a visually stunning piece of art.

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So I think I'm gonna start
a new series on this,

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kind of like an abstract
photography series

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on how we can creatively think

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and come up with different ways

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to Photoshop and
manipulate every day items

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or just creative ways to
shoot and display our photos.

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If you guys like that idea

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and want to see more
of this type of thing,

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let me know below, I'd
love to hear your thoughts.

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But, with that being said,

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let's jump into how to actually do this,

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because it's a lot easier than you think.

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it landscape, whatever,

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take them out, let's go.

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Okay, once you have your photo,

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whatever it is that you're gonna use,

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I'm using a dryer in this instance,

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you can use a microwave,
you can use the fridge,

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you could use your closet,
whatever, the toilet,

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you could use the toilet if you wanted to.

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But something that
opens for this instance.

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If you want to follow along the best,

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it might be easier to
use your dryer as well.

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So once you've taken that
photo, bring it into Photoshop,

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it's gonna open up Camera Raw.

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I've already done a couple tweaks to it,

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and when you're happy with the exposure,

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I wanna make mine a little more blue,

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and I'll tell you guys why
at the end of this tutorial.

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Just go ahead and hit Open Image,

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and you should be good to go.

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Now, from this point, we're
gonna do a couple things.

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We're just gonna hit Command
+ J on that background,

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which is gonna duplicate it,

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and we're gonna drag that background there

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to the Garbage, just 'cause it's locked,

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and we just want access.

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Double-click on that, and name it Dryer,

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that way, we can keep
things nice and tidy here.

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And then we're gonna drag in the photo

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that you're gonna use to
make come out of the dryer,

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we're gonna use to make that Narnia,

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fantasy kind of thing here.

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So once you get the photo
open, hit Command + A,

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it's gonna select all
of it, hit Command + C,

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that's copying it, Command + W closes it,

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Command + V pastes it, hit OK, good to go.

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Make sure that layer is on the bottom,

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and we're gonna name that, Banff,

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that's Banff National Park, so
we'll leave that right there.

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Now, it's important to say, the
photo that you're gonna use,

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the two photos, need
to work well together.

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If you don't have a photo that works well,

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it's gonna be hard to do,
as an example of that,

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I did one earlier that
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of the snow coming out of the dryer,

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and I tried to kind of make it,

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it just wasn't really working for me,

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so then I moved on to a different shot,

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which is this road shot,
and woo, works way better.

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So take it from me, you
gotta have two images

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that compliment each other that work well

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to get the best result.

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The reason this one works so well

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is 'cause we got those
leading lines of the road

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that diminishes deep into
the dryer that looks also,

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when you reverse that, like
it's coming out of the dryer,

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so they're just two shots that
compliment each other well.

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So at this point, we just want to make a,

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we're gonna reset our colors down here,

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by hitting X and D, that resets them.

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Make sure your foreground is white,

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you can hit X to do that.

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And then come down to the Ellipse tool,

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and we're gonna drag a perfect
circle by holding Shift

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and dragging to around the
size you think that opening is

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in the dryer, and then when you're happy,

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move that to the top layer,
so that we can see it,

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and then move it into place.

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To get the best result, drop that opacity,

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so you can see exactly where it is.

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Now I can see that's overlapping,
it's a little too big.

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So Control + T brings up the sizing box,

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and you can size that down
to the appropriate size.

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Hit V to get back to your Move tool,

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and then just position
to where you want it.

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I could maybe use it
just ever so slightly,

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a little bit smaller, right
there, and then move that over

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and boop, good to go, you can
bring that Opacity back up.

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Now, while you are still
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hold Command and click the layer again.

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That makes it into a
selection, so we can come down

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to the dryer layer, click that once,

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and then come down here to
the bottom, Add Layer Mask.

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Don't do anything yet, don't
hit anything, hands off.

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Hit Command + I, that inverts it, and now,

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we're just about good to go.

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You can go up to the
Ellipse layer and hide it,

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which, voila, shows us
the Banff road underneath.

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Essentially, we've just
punched a hole in that photo,

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kind of like we talked about

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in the How to Fake Anything
in Your Photos tutorial.

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So we clicked that bottom
layer, the Banff layer,

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we can actually move that
around wherever we want.

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So I am just going to move it here,

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I want to see move of the mountains.

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I'm happy with that, that looks good.

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Go back up to the Dryer layer,

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and then we're gonna
drop the Opacity on that

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so we can see the road.

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Now I know a lot of you
people in that past tutorials

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were like why aren't
you using the Pen tool?

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Use the Pen tool, what's
wrong with you, Pen tool!

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Don't use an Ellipse,
but in this instance,

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I just need a perfect circle,

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and an Ellipse gives me a
perfect circle, so done.

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Now in this instance, I
want to cut out the road,

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I want to cut out those leading lines,

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I'm gonna use the Pen tool.

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So come on over here, click the Pen tool,

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it's right above the T for text.

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Come back over to the photo,
and this what I'm gonna do,

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I'm gonna click on one part of the road

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that is in the dryer, if you will,

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and I'm gonna come all the way over,

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off frame, and click again.

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I've just basically made
myself a guide, a line.

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I'm gonna go all the way over

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around the borders of the photo

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I'm gonna click back here, so
that we're back on that line,

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and then I'm gonna click inside the dryer,

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so we've just cut that out,

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and connect where I
started at the beginning.

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To make this a selection,
hold Control and click,

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or right-click, right-click there,

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and select Make Selection
and then just hit OK.

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So that whole thing is selected now.

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And now what you want to do is go over

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to the Mask on that Dryer
layer, and hit Option Delete.

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And essentially, we just masked
out the rest of that road

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that we selected with the Pen tool.

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From this point, you can hit Command + D,

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that deselects everything,

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and then we can drag that Opacity back up,

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and boom, Banff is now coming
out of your dryer, what?

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And we're almost done at this point.

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All we wanna do is,
duplicate that Banff layer

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because I want to make a
reflection in the dryer door.

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So drag that to the top, hit Command + T,

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and then right-click or Control + click,

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and hit Flip Horizontal, and
then drop the Opacity on that

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because we want to move this over,

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and it's a little bit hard to see,

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but we're gonna move that
over into the dryer window,

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we're looking at this side here,

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I'll zoom in so you can
see, I like it right there.

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And then we're gonna add
a Layer Mask to that,

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make sure we go back to Brush,
and we're gonna paint away

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everything we don't want
for this duplicate photo,

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which is basically just about all of it.

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I only want the reflection
that's in the door.

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But make sure your Opacity, up
here, is all the way at 100.

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And then you can paint away
everything that we don't want,

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which is just about everything,
paint around that door.

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I only want that photo
showing up on the glass part

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or the plastic part of my dryer window.

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So let's paint that away, just about done.

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You can make the Opacity full again,

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so you can see if you've missed anything.

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Clearly, I did, down here at the bottom,

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so let's just paint that away.

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And when you are confident
that everything is gone,

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we're gonna drop that Opacity,

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because let's be honest,
that doesn't look good.

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We want it to look like a reflection,

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and reflections are faint sometimes,

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especially in something like this,

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with really, really
thick glass or plastic.

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So we're gonna drop
that a little bit more,

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to right about there,
18% looks good to me,

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but 17, because I don't
feel like going up one.

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And there we go, we got
a reflection in the door,

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it's subtle, you don't
look there immediately,

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but if you keep looking at
the photo, you notice it,

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and you think, damn, that's badass.

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Now at this point, Command + Shift + S,

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save this to your desktop,
title it Banff Dryer,

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or whatever you were
using, it doesn't matter.

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We just want a fresh copy of this PSD

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in case something should go
wrong, we can call back to that.

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Good to go.

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Now, for explanational purposes,

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I don't recommend flattening
layers all the time.

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I recommend working through layers

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and organizing everything properly,

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so that at the very end, you
can go back and tweak any spot

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in that photo, but for the
sake of time, we're flattening.

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Command + Shift + E,
boop, flattens everything.

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Select that Ellipse layer,
good bye, don't need it.

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At this point, you're done,
it just kind of comes down

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to color grading, so for me,
I'm gonna use one of my LUTs.

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And just go over here to Adjustments,

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we're gonna select Color
Lookup, Load 3D LUT,

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and come down to Load 3D LUT,

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and come down to Kodak Killer, boop.

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That gives a really, really
cool tint on the photo.

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I'm happy with that.

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However, I don't want that
tint on the dryer itself,

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I just like that in the
actual photo of the road,

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so I can hit B for Brush,

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make sure black is
selected as the foreground,

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and I can paint away the effects
of the LUT or that preset

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or whatever it is that you guys are using.

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But I'm only gonna paint
away a little bit of it,

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because I like right
here, my selection here,

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I like how a little bit
of it shows right here,

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but it doesn't really show right here.

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So it feels like the photo
is glowing out of the dryer.

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So go back to Brush, paint away
the rest that I do not want.

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Good to go.

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And I will flatten
that, happy right there.

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Actually, you know
what, let's Control + Z,

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Zed depending where you live.

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Drop that Opacity a little bit,
I don't want it too strong,

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I never want to put a lot
at 100%, sometimes I do,

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but I'm feeling generous, we'll
go 75, even though it's 74.

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I'm always one off
today, it's interesting.

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Now the last thing I wanna do
is add a little bit of warmth,

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a little bit of punch to this.

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To do that, you can
come over here to Image,

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Image, Adjustments, Curves,

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and we can bring those
blacks down a little bit

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to bring those highlights up.

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So the highlights are up
top, blacks are down below,

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and the mid-tones are in the middle,

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when you're looking at a Curves bar.

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So if we drop those
blacks down a little bit,

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and bring up those highlights,

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that's gonna make that photo
look just a little more punchy,

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you don't have to make it so much,

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but just for the sake of this explanation,

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you can hit Preview here
to see what you've done.

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You can see how I've added some Contrast.

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I'm happy with that, boop.

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Now the last thing I wanna do is

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make that glow a little more realistic,

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I want it to feel like the image

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is in fact coming out of my dryer.

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So with the layer
selected, hit Command + J,

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this is an interesting way to do it.

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And my whole point with this,

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the whole thing I'm trying to do

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is show you guys different
tools and different ways

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to do the same things,
that you have a big range,

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a big toolbox of ideas
and tips and creativity

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that you can use to do whatever it is

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that you're gonna do in Photoshop.

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'Cause the more you know, the better.

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Is this the only way
to do it, no, 100% no.

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But here's just yet another
way to do something like this.

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With B selected for Brush,
click your Color Picker,

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select something like orange or red,

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'cause we want to show some
heat coming off this photo.

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Hit OK, and now what we're gonna do,

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we're gonna bring that
Opacity of the Brush

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down a little bit up here, that's flow.

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Bring that Opacity down to like 83,

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and I'm gonna paint where
I want it to look like

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it is coming out and
reflecting right here, a lot.

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I want it to go all the way around

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so it looks like it's
glowing out of this photo.

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And then I'm gonna
adjust the Opacity again,

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'cause I want it to slowly dissipate

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as it starts to get
further and further away

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from the actual image itself.

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I don't want it to be too strong,

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I'm gonna bring that down even more, 19,

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and just kind of slowly
paint a little bit,

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just like that, looks good,

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give it a little bit of
glow up there, and cool.

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So, now go over to your Blending Modes,

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come all the way down to Color,

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and whoa, that looks horrible.

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But remember what I said,
we want to add your effects

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a little bit by little bit,
so drop that Opacity to zero,

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and then just slowly start
to bring that back in.

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But see how it looks like
there's a reflection of light

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coming through that's
making that right side glow.

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If you go too far, it doesn't work.

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But just a little bit,

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just a little bit, boom, right there.

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So it looks like the
light is kind of leaking

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out of this photo into the dryer.

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I'm happy with that.

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You can further correct it.

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I crunched this a little bit more,

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I kind of took my time with that.

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You can use the Curves up here,
Image, Adjustments, Curves,

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and you can go over to
the Channel, select Red,

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and you can adjust just
the reds using this Curves.

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If you want more, that way,
if you want it less, that way.

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And you can play with
these on different layers

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to get exactly what you want.

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So you can tweak that as much as you want.

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I went a little bit further here,

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and I really accentuated the yellows

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and painting different layers,
and I just did that process

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that we just did with
orange there several times

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up above, below, so that it
really looked like the sun

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was baking through on this.

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So that is my final results.

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Let's go full-screen there, and boop.

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There you have it, that's pretty cool.

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So there it is, now you know

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how to make some cool-looking composites.

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And if you guys want,
I will continue doing

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abstract photo tutorials like this

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to present you guys with different ideas

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that I think might be cool.

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I'd love to know what you guys
think of this series itself,

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and if you have any ideas
for your own composites,

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let's start that discussion below.

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But as always, thank you
so much for watching.

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Hit that Like button

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if you got something out of
this video and you enjoyed it.

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Subscribe, if you aren't already,

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and, and I will see you
guys in the next video.

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I'm supposed to take my
hat off at this point,

404
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but you're so far away, I'd have to like,

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I'd have to like run it up.

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(upbeat music)

407
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Gotta get warmed up, gotta get warmed up,

408
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gotta get warmed up.

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Mm hm!

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Mm.

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(fingers drumming)

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Is there any coffee left
in this, a little bit.