Composite Master Class
Taking a subject from one photo and adding it to a new background is easy; making it believable is another story. In this advanced tutorial, Liz shows you how to create a great composite image by paying attention to the little details.
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BILL
April 26, 2011 at 8:21 pm
Could you explain step 3 as to why you need to apply a clipping mask to the selection in step 2. thanks
Louis
May 2, 2011 at 1:48 pm
More videos which explain certain tasks would be extremely helpful.
Joe
May 2, 2011 at 8:49 pm
This website and Elements magazine are wonderfully helpful, I pour over all the information available. I appreciate all the tutorials. We are all visual learners, I suppose.
Many thanks.
Tony
May 8, 2011 at 3:03 am
a very helpfull tutorial that accentuates exactly those things which will help avoiding mistakes.
Harold
June 21, 2011 at 1:47 pm
I got it done but I’m not sure I could do it again or on a different pic without a step by step guide.
George
December 27, 2011 at 11:13 pm
Wow! A tour de force, indeed.
In the past, to make the ambient light falling on my extraction appear similar to that falling on the background, I would use the Photo Filter options.
Liz’s technique of using the eyedropper to sample areas of the background and then use Hue/Sat>Colorize>Adjust Opacity to make the ambient light fallng on the extraction the same as that falling on the background is so much more precise.
This is a technique that I am going to perform over and over until it’s so ingrained in (my brain’s) memory that I can use it fo rmy own work without thinkng about it.
Fabulous!
P.S. Personally, for complicated techniques like this, I find the PDF format superior to the videos, including those that include a cheat sheet. The PDFs look just like the chapters in Scott and Matt’s various books but are in fact even better, as they allow one to place the PDF alongside one’s PSE Editor as one is following each of the steps.
P.P.S. For those who need FREE backgrounds like the one Liz is using, here is an excellent source: http://www.morguefile.com