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Using Composite Photography to Create a Fantasy World

 

Using Composite Photography to Create a Fantasy World

 

Class Description


Karen Alsop is known for creating beautiful fantasy worlds through her unique compositing techniques in Lightroom™ and 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 Lightroom® and Photoshop® 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 Lightroom® and  Photoshop®; and then effectively prices and markets the final product.  


Software Used: Adobe Photoshop CC 2015.1.2

Lessons

  1. Class Introduction
  2. Adding Fine Art Compositing to Your Business
  3. Background Plate Workflow
  4. Setting Up Studio for Shoot
  5. Photograph the Rabbit
  6. Mock Up of Rabbit in Photoshop™
  7. Photograph The Rabbit Costume
  8. Setting up the Studio to Shoot with a Green Screen
  9. Photographing the Child in Segments
  10. Photographing Hair in Motion
  11. Getting a Great Costume Shot
  12. Use Lightroom to Choose the Best Images
  13. Make Selections in Photoshop™
  14. How to Use Photoshop™ Brushes to Mask Out Images
  15. Crop Out & Add Costume to Rabbit
  16. Warp Techniques to Fit Costume to Rabbit
  17. Shading & Shadows on & Under Rabbit
  18. Change color of Rabbit Costume
  19. Remove Green Screen from Child Image
  20. Background Plate Workflow
  21. How to Create a Brush
  22. Add Layers to Create Full Looking Hair
  23. Add Shadows to Image
  24. Workflow: Group Rabbit & Child Images
  25. Match the Scene with Color
  26. Spill Light: Painting with Light to Blend
  27. Levels Adjustment Layers: Shading & Rim Lighting
  28. Finalize Image Workflow in Lightroom™
  29. Export Image in Different Formats
  30. Marketing Composite Photography to Clients
  31. Presenting Image to Client

Reviews

Judy Mitschelen
 

I've found many great instructors at CreativeLive and Karen ranks right up there at the top! With her relaxed, thoughtful manner of presenting, I was immediately hooked. Her organization, clear explanations and demonstration, and on target response to questions are superb. This course covers an amazing range of skills and tricks of the trade. Whether you're interested in getting better shots to work with, better workflow at the computer, or better output at the end, Karen covers it all.

Endigo Rae
 

This was such an amazing class! Karen is so talented, inspiring, and such an amazing teacher. Very forthcoming and open about all of her techniques. I'm so looking forward to jumping into compositing, I feel like this is definitely something my soul desires to explore and Karen has made it so easy and accesible through her beautiful course! Thanks so much Karen and CreativeLive!

Kim
 

Karen is very talented and a great teacher and I enjoyed every minute of the course. But what I found to be the best part was seeing what an amazing person she is. The video of compositing the disabled children to make their dreams come true had me in tears. It has inspired me to use my talents to help others and not learn photo manipulation for self enjoyment. God bless you Karen.