Fine Art Compositing

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Compositing doesn’t have to be daunting – simple techniques can remedy slight imperfections in a photo or allow you to place your subject in a fantasy world. In Fine Art Compositing, fine art photographer Brooke Shaden will teach you an approach to compositing that will help you enhance – or transform – your images with minimal effort.

Compositing allows you to combine visual elements from multiple sources into one single image. In Fine Art Compositing, Brooke will share easy compositing skills photographers can use every day, like swapping out a blinking eye in a group shot or replacing a hand in a fashion shoot. She’ll also show you more artful applications for compositing – teaching you how to create the illusion of levitation and how to transform scrap fabric into a flowing dress. Brooke will also discuss fine art compositing and how you can create and market composite images that are, despite the use of stock elements, uniquely your own.

In this class, you will learn effective and inspired compositing techniques that will help you create more polished and believable images from an artist who has mastered the craft.

• Class Introduction
• Why Composite ?
• Logic Checklist
• What Not To Do When Compositing
• Shooting for Composite
• Changing Backgrounds and Light
• Shoot: Simple Swaps Part 1
• Shoot: Simple Swaps Part 2
• Practical Ways of Lighting for Composite
• Shoot: Matching & Creating Consistent Light Part 1
• Shoot: Matching & Creating Consistent Light Part 2
• Shoot: Stock for Composites
• Basic Photoshop Tools for Compositing Part 1
• Basic Photoshop Tools for Compositing Part 2
• Compositing Simple Swaps and Group Shots in Photoshop
• Lighting in Photoshop
• Gradients
• Vignettes and Lighting Effects
• Compositing Clouds
• How to Create Shadows
• Removing Subjects from Backgrounds
• Shoot: Comparing Backgrounds, Light, and Angles
• Compositing Backgrounds: Blending & Background Eraser
• Composting Backgrounds: Refine Edge
• Compositing Backgrounds: Blending Modes
• Creating a Levitation Image
• Shoot: Levitation Poses
• Shoot: Creating a Dress
• Levitation Examples
• Editing Levitation Shoot
• Building a Dress in Photoshop
• Dollhouse Shoot Overview
• Dollhouse Shoot: Model in Water
• Dollhouse Shoot: Book Pages and Dollhouse
• Editing Dollhouse Shoot Part 1
• Editing Dollhouse Shoot Part 2
• Editing Dollhouse Shoot Part 3
• Photoshop Critique
• Marketing and Selling Composited Images Part 1
• Marketing and Selling Composited Images Part 2
• Process of Creating a Composited Book Cover