Lesson Info
52. Editing Composite Shoot #3- Cleanup
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
03:09 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 #3- Cleanup
Let's go ahead and clean this image up, okay? We're gonna make this our final little bit here. Let's see how it goes, and we're gonna go pretty fast. So using the lasso tool, the feet are too bright. Let's just take this whole area down and darken it. So I'm gonna feather it. Nice, big feather. This is my favorite part of any edit is the finishing. So I'm going to take it down from the highlight portion of my curve. Just a really dark in those highlights that I think are too distracting. And then we're gonna add light where we want to see it. So we're gonna add that light all through here where we have beautiful, beautiful light already cascading through and make that 400 pixels and go ahead and brighten it up because it's pretty dark. Okay, now we're getting somewhere. I also noticed that we didn't extend this wall up enough here, so let's go ahead and just clone. Stamp that up. Fix that. Okay. I like where this is going. So I'm going to do another sort of big adjustment through here ...
to add some more light, just like that. Good and we're going to keep it a pretty big feathers. Well, so maybe 300 pixels and making it brighter just over the dress a little bit and then one more right over the hands and the rope so that we can really see that. Okay, now we haven't added any contrast. So that's gonna be the next step is to create contrast overall. So let's click on the very top of the layers and we're gonna go into curves. So top of the layers curves that's going thio affect everything below it. And I'm going to pull up on the shadows to soften them a little bit and down on the highlights to get rid of some of those really intense highlights. Then we're going to create contrast in the mid tones by creating or s curve. And this is just going to solidify the fact that we have, ah, lot of contrast and brightness going on in the center and not so much on the outside edges, which draws attention to the subject, which is exactly what we want. So now for just a little bit of color to finish this off here, obviously we don't need texture because it's filled with texture. I'm going to add blew into the shadows because I think it's gonna add a real softness to this image that's going to be really beautiful and yellow into the highlights. And I actually think we have a little too much red going on, which I never thought that I would say So let's take that red and go into image adjustments. Replace color, click on the dress just like we did before and see if we want to change it to a totally new color and you might not. And that's okay. You can always play with that fuzziness to fit more or less into your selection. I'm gonna take it up to fit more, and I kind of like having the dress of different color. I think it looks really neat, so I'm gonna go with that. And even though it's not perfect, I think that it's getting toward a color palette that I like a lot better. So I hope that this was really helpful for you and you have the images at home, so please follow along and make your own edits out of them. And I hope I hope I hope that this takes away some of the difficulty of compositing, and it opens up some of your imagination to do whatever you want.
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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