- Alright, at this point we've gone too far.
We've got too many stars
and we're over brightening the logo as well.
So what we're gonna do in this movie
is better integrate the photographic image
into the logo using a couple of adjustment layers.
So for starters I'm gonna click on this logo group
to make it active and then I'll go up to the Layer menu,
choose New Adjustment Layer, and choose Levels.
And that keyboard shortcut by the way, is mine,
I created it using the keyboard
shortcuts command under the Edit menu.
Now because I chose the command
that brings up the New Layer dialog box,
and I'm gonna call this layer deepen,
because it's gonna permit me to darken the background,
and now I'll click OK.
Next what you wanna do here inside the Properties panel
is click in the black point value
and take it up by pressing shift + up arrow to 50,
which means that we're telling Photoshop
to make anything with a luminous level
of 50 or darker black.
Then tab over to the gamma value
and press shift + down arrow three times
in order to reduce that value to 0.7.
And the net result is that we have
a much darker background to support the stars.
Problem is I'm not only darkening the blue area of the logo,
but I'm darkening the green area as well.
I wanna leave that green Earth area totally alone.
So what I'm gonna do is ctrl + click,
or cmd + click on a Mac,
on that vector-based mask right there
in order to convert it to a selection outline
as you're seeing here.
And then with that new deepen layer selected
I'll drop down to the Add Layer Mask icon
at the bottom of the Layers panel,
and this time I'll just go ahead and click on it
in order to create a vector-based mask.
And now you can see if I turn that layer off
and then back on that we're affecting the sky
and leaving the Earth alone.
I do however wanna introduce a little bit of darkness
down here at the bottom of the logo,
and I'm gonna do so using the Gradient Tool,
but I wanna be very careful about this maneuver.
So here's what I'm gonna do,
I need to find exactly where the center point
at the bottom of the exhaust plume is,
so I'm gonna click on the Background
and temporarily make it black by pressing alt + backspace,
or opt + delete on a Mac.
Now I'll go ahead and zoom in a little bit
and armed with my Rectangular Marquee Tool
I'll drag from one corner to the other like so,
and that will help me identify
where the middle of the exhaust plume is.
Now I'll press ctrl + r, or cmd + r on a Mac,
to bring up the Rulers,
and I'll drag down from the top ruler,
and notice here in Photoshop CC the guide will snap
to the center of that rectangle.
Now I'll go ahead and drag out a vertical guide
from the left hand ruler
and notice that it once again snaps to the center
of the rectangular selection.
Alright, now I can press ctrl + d, or cmd + d on a Mac,
to deselect the image,
I'll press ctrl + r, or cmd + r on a Mac,
to hide the Rulers, and I'll press ctrl + backspace,
or cmd + delete on the Mac,
to once again fill the Background with white.
Alright, now you wanna go ahead
and click on that black and white layer mask right there,
the one associated with the deepen layer,
then go ahead and zoom out
so that you can take in the entire image,
and select the Gradient Tool,
which you can get just as you can in Illustrator
by pressing the G key.
Then go up here to the gradient in the options bar,
click the down pointing arrow head,
and choose the second one in,
which is foreground to transparent.
And assuming your default colors,
which you can get by pressing the D key,
then the foreground color will be white,
which is exactly what we want.
At which point, go ahead and drag from the intersection
of those two guides up the exhaust plume like so
and just a little bit into the body of the rocket.
And make sure that you're following
the angle of the rocket as well.
And then just go ahead and release
and you'll see the bottom of the logo
becomes slightly darker.
Now at this point we no longer need the guide lines,
so I'm gonna go up to the View menu
and choose Clear Guides to get rid of them.
Alright, now let's do a little work on the stars.
I'll go ahead and select the galaxy layer to make it active,
and then I'll return to the Layer menu,
choose New Adjustment Layer,
and once again choose the Levels command.
And I'm gonna call this layer density, let's say,
because we're gonna change the density of the stars,
and then I'm gonna turn on this check box
Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask,
very important, so that we're affecting the galaxy layer
independently of the rest of the composition,
then click OK.
And now we just wanna modify the gamma value
by clicking inside of it and pressing shift + down arrow
five times like so, in order to reduce the value to 0.5,
and now I'll hide the Properties panel.
And just so you can see what a difference this makes,
this what the stars look like without that layer,
then when I turn it back on we create the appearence
of reducing the number of stars in this galaxy,
which is exactly what I want.
Now I wanna get rid of some of the star action
out here in the rings, and at the top of the rocket as well.
So I'll go ahead and switch to the Brush Tool,
which you can get by pressing the B key,
and notice that I can't do anything in this layer.
I need to create a new one by pressing ctrl + shift + n,
or cmd + shift + n on a Mac,
and I'll go ahead and call this 3x 1000-pixel,
because I'm gonna paint three times
using a 1000 pixel brush.
And again, I wanna turn on this check box,
Use Previous Layer to Create Clipping Mask,
and click OK.
And now I'm gonna right-click inside the image window
and crank that Size value up to 1000 pixels,
I want the Hardness to be 0 percent,
at which point I'll press the enter key,
or the return key on a Mac, to hide that panel.
Make sure your foreground color is black,
and then just go ahead and click out here on the right ring,
and then click on a similar location on the left ring,
and then click right above the rocket like so,
in order to hide a few of the stars at the top of the logo.
And now I'll press the M key to switch back
to the Rectangular Marquee Tool.
And just to get a sense of what
we've been able to accomplish
with a couple of Levels adjustment layers,
as well as three clicks with the Brush Tool,
I'll go up to the File menu and choose the Revert command,
so that we can see the image as it
appeared at the outset of this movie.
So this is the before version of the logo
with way too many stars,
and this is the after version with
the much better integration of that photographic image
along with the logo here inside Photoshop.