# Make a Polished Image Background with Brooke Shaden

Canonical URL: <https://www.creativelive.com/classes/adobe-simple-backdrops-for-compositing-brooke-shaden>

## Overview

Learn how to source, put together and polish backgrounds for your images by utilizing everyday objects, set design, and compositing. Award-winning and fine art photographer Brooke Shaden, shares her secrets to creating the magic behind her subjects. Not having a big budget or a great location should never stop someone from creating images that look expensive and refined.

You'll Learn:

1. How to create and use bedsheets as backdrops so that your images have a painterly background.
2. How to effectively and inexpensively use color theory and prop placement to create a set in your own home.
3. How to shoot backgrounds for subjects you will composite in later, and top tricks for being able to create smooth composites.

This class has been edited in partnership with [Adobe](https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html)

## Instructors

### Brooke Shaden

Brooke explores the darkness and light in people, and her work looks at that juxtaposition. As a self-portrait artist, she photographs herself and becomes the characters of dreams inspired by a childhood of intense imagination and fear.

## Pricing

**Tuition:** $27