Using Composite Photography to Create a Fantasy World

 


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

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
 
 
 
 

Reviews

  • 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.
  • 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!
  • 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.
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