Image compositing doesn't have to feel overwhelming – fundamental methods can repair minor photographic imperfections or transport your subject to an imaginary setting. In Fine Art Compositing, fine art photographer Brooke Shaden teaches a compositing approach enabling you to augment or reimagine your imagery efficiently and effectively.
Image compositing integrates visual elements sourced from different photographs into one unified composition. In Fine Art Compositing, Brooke demonstrates practical compositing methods applicable in daily professional work, for example, correcting a closed eye in family portraits or substituting a hand in commercial fashion shoots. She additionally explores sophisticated artistic applications for compositing, demonstrating techniques for producing levitation effects and transmuting ordinary fabric into flowing garments. Brooke examines the business side of fine art compositing and strategies for creating and promoting composite works that feel authentically personal despite incorporating stock photography components.
In this course, you will acquire practical and imaginative compositing methods that will strengthen and refine your images, taught by an accomplished specialist in this discipline.
Complete Lesson List:
- 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
- Compositing 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
