Overview
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Learn the creative and technical considerations involved in photographing with compositing in mind.
Syllabus
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Introduction
- Welcome
- About the course
- Using the exercise files
- Types of composites
- Seeing compositing possibilities
- Creating a simple blend-mode composite
- Using blend modes to create a photorealistic composite
- Lightroom collections and keywords for a composite library
- Discussing skies, water, and landscape elements for compositing
- Recognizing and photographing symbolic elements
- Introduction: Location shooting for composites
- Planning the shot
- Getting the shot
- Shooting additional angles
- Understanding lighting, perspective, and camera angle to aid the composite
- Using a model in the composite
- Using props: Shooting a glass bottle
- Introduction: Shooting in a studio for composites
- Matching studio lighting to location shots and lighting the background for masking
- Matching perspective, angle, and focal length
- Using location elements in the studio
- Shooting tethered in Lightroom for quick rough drafts
- Creating a studio mock-up composite in Photoshop
- Using the Quick Selection tool to select the subject
- Perfecting the selection with Select and Mask
- Using Smart Objects for nondestructive transformations
- Refinements with blend modes and adjustment layers
- Finishing touches
- Masking the subject
- Editing a layer mask
- Adding sand detail from another image
- Finishing touches
- Combining two seascape images
- Modifying rocks for a realistic look
- Final mask touch-ups
- Using adjustment layers to create tonal styling
- Next steps
