Lessons
Class Introduction
03:01 2Adding Fine Art Compositing to Your Business
24:28 3Background Plate Workflow
22:54 4Setting Up Studio for Shoot
09:04 5Photograph the Rabbit
05:09 6Mock Up of Rabbit in Photoshop™
08:56 7Photograph The Rabbit Costume
34:34 8Setting up the Studio to Shoot with a Green Screen
03:41Photographing the Child in Segments
27:22 10Photographing Hair in Motion
29:46 11Getting a Great Costume Shot
11:21 12Use Lightroom to Choose the Best Images
13:07 13Make Selections in Photoshop™
15:08 14How to Use Photoshop™ Brushes to Mask Out Images
22:36 15Crop Out & Add Costume to Rabbit
27:41 16Warp Techniques to Fit Costume to Rabbit
20:31 17Shading & Shadows on & Under Rabbit
31:50 18Change color of Rabbit Costume
12:00 19Remove Green Screen from Child Image
08:22 20Background Plate Workflow
21:40 21How to Create a Brush
11:25 22Add Layers to Create Full Looking Hair
27:49 23Add Shadows to Image
05:57 24Workflow: Group Rabbit & Child Images
10:47 25Match the Scene with Color
05:31 26Spill Light: Painting with Light to Blend
09:46 27Levels Adjustment Layers: Shading & Rim Lighting
04:59 28Finalize Image Workflow in Lightroom™
08:36 29Export Image in Different Formats
15:44 30Marketing Composite Photography to Clients
17:13 31Presenting Image to Client
23:06Lesson Info
Class Introduction
Welcome to CreativeLive, I'm Kenna Klosterman your host for using composite photography to create a fantasy world with Karen Alsop. Now Karen is an award winning photographic digital artist, she hails from Melbourne, Australia, which is so exciting to have here. She creates both photography and art, to make them into one of a kind, unique pieces that take her viewers and her clients into another world. So please help me welcome Karen Alsop to the CreativeLive stage. (audience claps) Thank you so much Kenna, and thank you everyone, thank you CreativeLive audience, it's so amazing to be here all the way from Australia. I'm so excited to share with you about compositing, digital art, fine art photography, and how it can actually impact your businesses in so many different ways. So I wanted to just introduce this class with sharing about why this is such an important class for everyone to take, not just people that are interested in the fantasy photography, but wedding photographers, and...
portrait photographers, and newborn photographers, and why it's so important for all of us to really get a hold of this whole compositing thing, because really, I think, we're on the brink of it being an expectation of a lot of people for you to be able to do compositing. There are so many clients that are coming to photographers saying, can you do a head swap for me? They're coming to photographers saying, can you put someone in this image that has passed away? They're coming to photographers, wedding photographers asking for dinosaurs coming into the background. So they're asking this of the everyday photographer, and for any of you that have never tried compositing, that have never really had that time with Photoshop, it's really important in this day, I think, to start off and to learn the skills that will at least give you the basis. But this course is going to take you even further. So this is an intermediate to advanced course, but it's going to be so much fun. We are going to create an image of a little girl who is chasing a little white rabbit in Alice in Wonderland, and we are going to dress the rabbit digitally, and the white rabbit will be holding a pocket watch, so we'll be creating an image that, in reality, is impossible to take in one shot. So the idea of compositing is being able to create the impossible, being able to create something that you can't get in one shot in photography.
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Ratings and Reviews
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.
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.
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!
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