Making composite images that look realistic can be a complicated task. Here, Matt shows you how to make a quick, clean selection, and then how to merge it seamlessly into a new background.
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Matt offers some additional tips for enhancing and enriching composites in this companion video to his Quick Collage article.
Pump up the drama and create a great composite by combining two versions of the same shot.
After a week of scrounging around on the internet for some much-needed inspiration, I’ve noticed a wonderful trend that marries photography and Photoshop beautifully; composites.
Dave shows some cool and practical ways to use masking, compositing and Free Transform to apply images to objects.
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.
Using displacement maps, Matt shows you how to “wrap” one graphic onto another.
Taking a cue from the tutorial site Abduzeedo, Dave Cross shows you how to create a very cool “I was here when” effect in Photoshop Elements.
Work on your layer chops and create a cool composite effect with Corey’s technique.
Corey’s latest video illustrates a cool way to create a mosaic effect as an overlay on top of your photos.
Corey walks you through how to composite multiple images into one realistic result.
This is a technique I like to use when I have a good photograph of a child where the background is simply too busy to use the photograph as it is.
Corey demonstrates how to combine several images into a silhouette shape.
If you have a cute photo of a child you wish to use for a fairy-tale image, but don’t care for the background, try selecting the child to place in a new background.
There was some discussion in the forum a while ago about how to make window glass float above an image so that it looks realistic. Here’s an approach to try.
Quite a while ago we were playing around on the forum combining animal images and people.
Combining two or more photos to re-create a special moment can add life and warmth to the memories we record.
Before the days of panoramic technology, if you wanted to show the big picture, you had to take multiple photos and then try to paste them together; let’s turn it around and reverse the process to create an eye-catching bulletin board effect.
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