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

0. Introduction

01 - Make eye-catching composites in Photoshop

1. Selection and Masking Overview

02 - Selection tool overview
03 - Masking overview

2. Masking Techniques

04 - Replacing a sky
05 - Making vector masks with the Pen tool
06 - Layer mask techniques
07 - Gradient layer mask
08 - Gradient layer mask within a shape
09 - Further masking techniques
10 - Select and Mask
11 - Masking with brushes
12 - Using luminance masking to select by light
13 - Making selections with channel masking

3. Compositing with Blend Modes

14 - Using the Multiply blend mode to neutralize whites
15 - Using the Screen blend mode to neutralize blacks
16 - Combining Multiply and Screen blend modes for translucency
17 - Creating a simple composite with blend modes and a layer mask
18 - Further experiments with blend modes
19 - Creating a composition with blend modes and vector shapes

4. Compositing Projects

20 - Placing a figure in a scene
21 - Repurposing an old master
22 - Creating a collage
23 - Creating a repeat pattern wallpaper
24 - Creating a typographic collage
25 - Recreating a historic poster using a clipping mask
26 - Creating a floating heads movie poster
27 - Creating a surreal scene

Conclusion

28 - Taking Photoshop compositing further

Learning Photoshop Compositing

Authors

Nigel French