How do you achieve this look:
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Sign up to join this communityCreate the Background color and the Main Image layer. Click the Main Image layer thumbnail holding Cmd Mac or Ctrl Win to load the transparency selection and copy it.
Make a Fill Color layer
Click the Fill Color layer mask holding Alt to see its content
With the selection active, paste
Cmd + I Mac or Ctrl + I Win to invert. Click the Color Fill thumbnail and hid the Main Image layer.
Click the mask and apply levels: reduce midtones increasing shadows and highlights
Work process
Result
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