Learning Photoshop Compositing

Course details

Photo compositing is a great way to expand your creativity. With a composite, you can combine two or more images to tell a more powerful story, or portray scenes that could never be accomplished with a single shot. In this course, Nigel French shares the fundamental creative and technical concepts behind photo compositing. In addition to core features necessary to combine multiple images—like masking and blend modes—Nigel also explores the AI-driven selection features in the latest versions of Photoshop. If you want to take your creativity to the next level, join Nigel in this course to learn how photo compositing can help you do just that.

Concepts

Introduction

Make eye-catching composites in Photoshop

Selection and Masking Overview

Selection tool overview
Masking overview

Masking Techniques

Replacing a sky
Making vector masks with the Pen tool
Layer mask techniques
Gradient layer mask
Gradient layer mask within a shape
Further masking techniques
Select and Mask
Masking with brushes
Using luminance masking to select by light
Making selections with channel masking

Compositing with Blend Modes

Using the Multiply blend mode to neutralize whites
Using the Screen blend mode to neutralize blacks
Combining Multiply and Screen blend modes for translucency
Creating a simple composite with blend modes and a layer mask
Further experiments with blend modes
Creating a composition with blend modes and vector shapes

Compositing Projects

Placing a figure in a scene
Repurposing an old master
Creating a collage
Creating a repeat pattern wallpaper
Creating a typographic collage
Recreating a historic poster using a clipping mask
Creating a floating heads movie poster
Creating a surreal scene

Conclusion

Taking Photoshop compositing further