Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
Lesson 45 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
Lesson 45 from: Creating a Fine Art SeriesBrooke Shaden
Lesson Info
45. Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
Lessons
Class Introduction
07:25 2Overview of Brooke’s Journey
20:13 3Your Timeline is Nonlinear
05:37 4Using Curiosity and Intention to Build Your Career
03:26 5What Factors Dictate Growth
08:24 6Organic Growth vs. Forced Growth
05:18 7Niche Branding
04:57 8Brooke’s Artistic Evolution and Timeline
24:27How Can You Get Ahead if You Feel Behind?
10:02 10Ideation and Conceptualization to Identify Meaning in Your Art
05:54 11Idea Fluency
10:33 12How to Represent an Idea
07:01 13How to Innovate an Idea
07:07 14Creating a Dialogue With Your Art
05:48 15Conceptualization For a Series vs. a Single Image
03:43 16Transforming a Single Image Into a Series
03:12 17How to Tell a Story in a Series
03:28 18How to Create Costumes From Fabric
07:20 19Brooke’s Most Useful Costumes
02:19 20Using Paint and Clay as Texture in an Image
02:56 21Create Physical Elements in an Image
10:22 22Shooting for a Fine Art Series
05:45 23Conceptualization: Flowery Fish Bowl in the Desert
04:08 24Wardrobe and Texture
04:54 25Posing for the Story
05:32 26Choosing an Image
01:23 27Conceptualization: Rainy Plexiglass
11:34 28Posing for the Story
04:17 29Creating Backlight
02:37 30Photo Shoot #1 - Creating a Simple Composite
17:51 31Photo Shoot #2 - Creating a Dynamic Composite
06:31 32Photo Shoot #3 - Creating a Storytelling Composite
07:40 33Shooting the Background Images
06:14 34Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Working With Backgrounds
24:35 35Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Retouching the Subject
04:20 36Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Color Grading
02:45 37Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Floor Replacement Texture
15:24 38Editing Samsara Shoot #1 - Final Adjustments
03:21 39Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Cropping and Editing Backgrounds
05:25 40Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Selective Adjustments
03:55 41Editing Samsara Shoot #2 - Adding Texture + Fine Tuning
03:21 42Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
06:58 43Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Expanding Rooms
02:17 44Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Color
02:47 45Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
04:04 46Editing Composite Shoot #2- Masking Into Backgrounds
10:45 47Editing Composite Shoot #2- Creating Rooms in Photoshop
06:11 48Editing Composite Shoot #2- Compositing Hair
05:07 49Editing Composite Shoot #2- Global Adjustments
04:49 50Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
05:00 51Editing Composite Shoot #3- Advanced Compositing
08:46 52Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
03:34 53Materials for Alternative Processes
06:20 54Oil Painting on Prints
05:41 55Encaustic Wax on Prints
03:14 56Failure vs. Sell Out
05:14 57Create Art You Love and Bring an Audience To You
03:35 58Branding Yourself Into a Story
05:40 59The Artistic Narrative
05:26 60Get People to Care About Your Story
03:36 61Get People to Buy Your Story
11:36 62Getting Galleries and Publishers to Take Notice
03:41 63Pricing For Commissions
06:43 64Original Prints vs. Limited Edition Prints vs. Open Edition Prints
02:11 65Class Outro
01:00 66Live Premiere
16:14 67Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 1
04:41 68Live Premiere: Layers of Depth 2
07:12 69Live Premiere: Q&A
16:10 70Live Premiere: Photo Critique
47:33Lesson Info
Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Selective Exposure
I'm gonna go ahead and just make a couple fun changes to this. And if you want to do the same, that would be amazing. To see your own take on it, I want to just create more interest. Where the subject is, this area is a little bit distracting. So I'm gonna go ahead and block it off here by just creating a vignette around that area. Right? Click and feather. Maybe 350 pixels. Okay. And curve, just to bring it down so that our attention is really coming to the subject. And then I'll do one big overall change where I'm bringing the shadows up the highlights down Good. Just to make it a little bit more atmospheric. Wonderful. And then I'm gonna come in and really take a look here. I should probably get rid of my microphone. So let's use the clones damp tool to do that, go in and see if we can get rid of that Very Ah, confusing looking Mike, if you don't know what you're looking at, okay, I'm just clone stamping. Thio, get rid of it. Uh, and that's that's good enough for now, I think I wann...
a take a look at the candle here and really see if we can enhance the light. So I'm going to click and just select the fire. Just feather it a little bit. Maybe just 10 pixels, and I'm going to use a curve adjustment to add some color, some yellow and some red to the candle. That way it has a color temperature to it, and I can always take that down a little bit if it's too much. If I've added too much color, so you know we might find some happy medium in there. And then what I want to do is create that cast on my body. So creating this glow around here feather that maybe 70 pixels and we're just gonna add a little little bit of light, just a little extra light that has more of that warm glow that we just added to the candle. So a little bit more yellow. And like I said, we can always take this back. So don't be afraid to go too far with it. Little bit of yellow, little bit of red. We've just added a glow. You see what that does? It just makes that area pop. I think we did on my chin too much. So if you go too far, dial it back. No big deal. Just erase it where you don't want it just like that. Then we can see there's now a glow. It's even coming under my chin, which I think is really beautiful. So we've added that glow, and it makes the candle really stand out and make it look a little bit more atmospheric. We can even make it seem like it's, you know, resonating even further by just drawing a big, blah, blah, blah, blah. There you go. A big squiggle Thio have natural light fall off, which is what we need here, and I'm gonna feather it. Let's say pixels, why not? And then do another curve. This time I'm going to go from the shadows to create that really hazy light effect. And again, we're gonna go in from the highlights and add some yellow and add some red all to the highlights there. Cool. So you can see what we're doing with that lighting of the candle is just getting rid of the monochromatic look that we have there. Everything is kind of a neutral color and adding a glow everywhere in the image. So that's where I'm going to leave this picture. We got the compositing finished. We've got the candles enhanced. We've got some light added, and if we do a little before and after you can see, not a lot was done, but it makes a big difference. We've just really toned the color of the dress, added the light to the face. So let's move on to the second one, which is going to get progressively more complicated, and we'll see what we could do to edit that.
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Ratings and Reviews
a Creativelive Student
Brooke never fails to deliver. I found this course superb from start to finish. From exercising your creative 'muscle', demystifying taking self portraits, and showing that they don't have to be perfect before you begin editing, to walking you through her editing process and how to price your work. Brooke's enthusiastic personality and excitement about the work shines through it all. Definitely recommended!
Rebecca Potter
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Brooke for this amazing class. Inspired and so full of practical knowledge, this is the best class I've ever watched. You have given me the confidence to pursue what I've always been afraid to do. Watch this space!
Søren Nielsen
Thank for fantastic motivating an very inspiring. The story telling and selling module was very helpful - thanks from Denmark