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