All language subtitles for 1. Introduction to Photoshop Compositing

All right let's talk a little bit about Photoshop composite images or Photoshop compositing as is sometimes

called Here's an image I created for a client that was a staff photo.

They are all dressed up as nerds as you can tell.

And they wanted to create this nerd poster so what I did initially I took a bunch of photos of them

all together.

But if you've ever tried to do that you'll know that anything more than about three people in a photo

gets difficult.

It's really tough to get everybody making the face that they want whether smiling or in this case they

kind of have a serious serious vibe going on.

But what I ended up doing to create this image was I took a picture of all of them.

Take a look here separately.

And the way I did that was I went in and set my camera up on a tripod and then had them all step in

and I took a photo.

Now one thing you notice as I did this I had them all try and stand this line or as close to this line

as I could get them to stand that way.

I had a frame of reference as I cut these images out and brought them into Photoshop.

You can see here I've got a line across the top of this machine and it gave me a really good idea of

how tall they were so that I could make a really believable depth of field.

Some of these folks are just ridiculous way.

All right so what we did here let's go and open up this file and take a look.

I'm going to open up Photoshop and because the poster files one of the most recent files that I opened

it's going to be in my recent files list here.

There it is right there.

And take a look.

So what I did when I created this image and you can see here I've got these guides and these guides

helped me see how tall everybody is.

When I brought them and cut them all out and if I click on any of these and drag them around all of

a sudden it totally breaks the illusion if it didn't already.

With me telling you but we can cut all this people out.

Drop in you'll see I added some drop shadows by their feet.

Let's take a look here.

Zoom in a little bit.

So I've got their feet here.

Let me double click.

These are smart objects.

What that means is it remembers what they what the original file was set up at.

So I had an inner Shatto going on here just just a subtle shadow and some smart filters for coloring

and the shadow down here by their feet was done with custom brushwork so I can save this place it in

my main document file and those changes will stay with me.

But then I can always go back and edit them later.

So anyway you can see that I've I've made a lot of layers here for this project and this is what I want

to teach you is how to create a photoshop composite image.

Let me give you a few more ideas of what's possible.

So let's go ahead and open up Google and let's search for Photoshop composite or Photoshop composites

either one.

There you go and click on the images search here and you can get a really good idea of some other things

that you could do.

Just some ideas to get the creative wheels spinning here in your mind.

Amona command.

Click on these images so by holding our command or control on a PC here I can click on images that I'm

inspired by or that I want to talk to you about here briefly.

So as I hold down command and click what it's doing is it's opening up new tabs here and that way I

can keep browsing while I'm opening new tabs to come back to here in just a second.

So all right.

So the other thing about Photoshop compositing is it doesn't have to be people.

It can be products or or things.

Let's say you want to put something on Etsy or on Ebay and you want to cut out your product and maybe

make it look a little better or more appealing.

This is another technique you can use for that as well.

So here's an example of a product right here where we've got this piece of sod and clouds and we've

had these streak marks behind it.

So first up compositing is a great tool and that's why we're diving and I think it's a really fun topic

.

So here's a few other ideas.

This just look real briefly we've got some really high contrast stuff going on here.

This background I'm sure was not where it was shot was probably shot of a green screen.

Here's another one where he's just superimposed over the top of a background it sounds believable mostly

because of where the shadows and the lighting are coming from.

But we can talk about that as we dive in here.

So here's another one really high contrast HDR type of a photo.

Again this background was probably placed after the fact.

We even got some light bursts coming in up here and things like that.

So that's what I want to show you as we dive in here.

So first things first go ahead and do a little more research.

Figure out what you want to make whether it's a photo of yourself or if you want to use one of the assets

I've provided.

I'll provide some of these photos that you can use to cut out and work with or feel free to take a pause

real quick take a picture of yourself when you do make sure let's look at these photos I took real quick

.

Make sure you give yourself space to cut all the way out around the image OK.

So don't crop the image too close so that we have room to work.

The other thing is let's say you want to make an image.

Let's just look at pixels dot com.

This is a great freebie resource for free images.

You can search for beach or forest or city or coffee shop or any kind of background you want to find

.

Let's just pretend you wanted to use this one here.

If you are going to use this let's look at where the lights coming from is coming from the top left

here.

So if you take a picture of yourself make sure you're lighting in your place but if your lighting is

kind of in the same vicinity that will help the image look a lot more real and believable.

Once you dive into the project here the other thing is if you're sitting straight on it would look quite

as real as if maybe from like a three quarter angles maybe sit on a stool or something.

So just some ideas as you start to gather some assets and resources to create your composite image.

So all right go ahead and take a second now go take those photos or open up the project files and we

will dive in with the next video