Using Composite Photography to Create a Fantasy World

Karen Alsop is known for creating beautiful fantasy worlds through her unique compositing techniques in Adobe® Lightroom® and Adobe® Photoshop®. Whether you're a wedding, portrait, landscape or commercial photographer, this class will show you how to create beautiful and distinctive images you can offer your clients to expand your business.  

Join us for this class, and you’ll learn how to: 

• Shoot with your composite in mind: lighting, posing and angles.
• Choose background and subject images that will work best in the composite.
• Learn Adobe Lightroom and AdobePhotoshop techniques to create a fantastical atmosphere.

Karen’s emphasis on creativity and imagination in her process has helped her to make a product that competitors have a hard time recreating. Karen’s beautiful, intricate work is not simply the result of vast technical skill, but rather is the careful integration of a number of elements. She puts subjects at ease and inspires them with artful direction; incorporates them into fantasy landscapes using Adobe Lightroom and Adobe Photoshop and then effectively prices and markets the final product.  

Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015

• Class Introduction
• Adding Fine Art Compositing to Your Business
• Background Plate Workflow
• Setting Up Studio for Shoot
• Photograph the Rabbit
• Mock Up of Rabbit in Photoshop™
• Photograph The Rabbit Costume
• Setting up the Studio to Shoot with a Green Screen
• Photographing the Child in Segments
• Photographing Hair in Motion
• Getting a Great Costume Shot
• Use Lightroom to Choose the Best Images
• Make Selections in Photoshop™
• How to Use Photoshop™ Brushes to Mask Out Images
• Crop Out & Add Costume to Rabbit
• Warp Techniques to Fit Costume to Rabbit
• Shading & Shadows on & Under Rabbit
• Change color of Rabbit Costume
• Remove Green Screen from Child Image
• Background Plate Workflow
• How to Create a Brush
• Add Layers to Create Full Looking Hair
• Add Shadows to Image
• Workflow: Group Rabbit & Child Images
• Match the Scene with Color
• Spill Light: Painting with Light to Blend
• Levels Adjustment Layers: Shading & Rim Lighting
• Finalize Image Workflow in Lightroom™
• Export Image in Different Formats
• Marketing Composite Photography to Clients
• Presenting Image to Client