Originally posted by DaiSuki
1. Control/Apple+click on the bloke shaped channel, which should look something like this, but a lot sharper. Btw, you might want to gaussian blur it a couple of pixels so that it's not such a harsh difference. Trying doing it 3 pixels, then 1 pixel.
(I may have the black & white the wrong way around. I was a bit drunk when I wrote that first post. It doesn't matter, though, as long as the bloke's the same colour as the bottom of the gradient.)
That'll load the shape as a selection.
2. Go to your gradient channel (which should look something like this) with the selection still active. Make sure you've got the foreground colour (i think!) set to black.
3. (I'm on a Mac right now, so the PC shortcut might be wrong for this. It's either Alt or Control) Hit Control/Apple + Backspace, and it should fill your selection. You should end up with something looking a bit like this.
If it's upside down, go back a step in the history and invert the selection, then try again.
After that, just select your rgb layer and hit up lens blur.
Does that clear things up?
Looking back, it is more than a bit vague. I'd just got back from a night out, so I wasn't a model teacher.
Any more problems, feel free to ask!
I hope it helps. I do stand by what I said before, though - it's a cracking photo and it doesn't really need anything doing to it. Well done!
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