Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
Brooke Shaden
Lesson Info
42. Editing Composite Shoot #1 - Compositing Models
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 #1 - Compositing Models
Let's jump into this edit with me as a self portrait, and you have these images so you can edit along with me. I'm going to do each one individually in a slightly different way so that we can practice lots of different techniques, especially compositing. Obviously, these images don't go in a Siri's. Yes, I shot them all in a red dress in the same location, and they could go as three images together. But conceptually, it doesn't really work. So this is just a fun bonus to be able to practice editing with. And I can't wait to jump in because there's so much to talk about here. Here are the images that we shot. This was my test shot that we did together, and you can see that that wasn't really posing yet. I'm just making sure that it's in focus, that the lighting is good and we can check that here by zooming in and just making sure that everything looks crisp and clear and it does. I can see my eye looks really sharp, so that looks great. So moving on this was the first actual image that ...
I did with the candles, and it was okay. It certainly wasn't bad. But I didn't really love that. You couldn't see the shape of my body. So I decided Thio move my elbows out. And I think that was a great choice because this image I love it has shaped to it. It's creating those triangles, those points of interest. And I think it's gonna work really well. So I'm going to mark that as my main shot. And for the purposes of this first picture, I'm not going to move to a different location. We're just going to keep it at this location. I'm even going to keep the texture in the background, I think because I really like how it looks all on its own. So here we have the smoke because I thought that was really neat, so I photographed it, but it didn't show up Very well then we have all the hair. So I've got all these pictures of hair. Some of them are more interesting than others, and I just have to choose which ones I want to use. So I really like this hair quite a bit. I'm going to mark that because that one was really cool. I'm gonna mark this one as well because I took note that those were my two favorites and then the dress which of the dresses looks best? I think I'll probably just go for that one and select. So let's go through and choose all of the images that we like. Okay, open them up into Photoshop. And I think I'm not gonna do anything to these in camera raw. There wasn't anything that was over exposed, under exposed. It was pretty okay overall. So I'm not gonna do anything but select all of them and open them into Photoshop altogether. And as they go in, I'm starting to think about the order of things and how I want this to go. And we talked about there being a main shot, the one shot that is going to lead everything else. So that's going to be the one with the pose with my elbow spread holding the candles and everything else will get added. On top of that, that's really the main principle. When it comes to compositing is making absolutely sure that you have that one main shot that you're gonna build on top of. So let's go ahead and grab some hair. I really did like this hair quite a bit. So I'm going to use my lasso tool just to grab some of the hair. I'm not trying to cut the hair out. I'm just trying to blend it into this picture. So I just copied it and pasted it. And I'm using my move tool to put it where I want it. And I think that's gonna be where I want it. All right, I'm going to create a layer mask on that new hair and with my brush tool, let's go in and make sure that there's no hardness. Good. We're just gonna blend it right in just like that. As easy as Cumbie. Okay, Now I'm gonna go in with an even smaller brush to finesse the edge there and to bring it back right up to the edge. There's even a little bit where it's not quite blending very well here. So thinking about that keeping that in mind, I want to kind of manipulate this image. So what? I wanna dio and I'm gonna bring back some of that dress. We're in the hair there where I really, really do want this to be filled in here for continuity just like that. And then I'm going to click on the actual layer of the hair. Not the adjustment, but the hair. I'm gonna go into edit, transform, warp. I'm just going to slowly move that down just a little teensy bit and then get back on my layer mask to erase the dress so that it's just the dress underneath. There we go, and the hair fits in that way. Okay, Perfect. Now you cannot even tell that that was added. It's so hard to tell, except for any edges that we haven't erased. So let's go in and erased, um, with a soft brush, Just go in right around the edge wherever you see an edge. Soft, fuzzy brush, zero hardness. Great. Look at that. So simple. Just adding that hair on because it was all shot in the same backdrop. So we don't have to worry about the hair being cut out hair by hair and adding it in that way, it was all shot on the same backdrop. So there you have that. I'm just taking a look at the dress now, and I'm gonna I've chosen a side. I could've made my hair go everywhere. My dress go everywhere, but I'm just going to make it look like the wind is blowing toe one direction. So let's go ahead and get that dress that we wanted to add on. And the same goes for this. I'm not going to worry about cutting the dress out necessarily. I'm just gonna worry about creating a little bit more shape out to the side. I think that this dress doesn't quite fit the way that I wanted. So I'm gonna warp this again. Just like I worked the hair in Edit, Transform, Warp. We're just gonna kind of nudge that into place wherever we think it should go. Ah, not bad. Okay, I'm going to create my layer mask. And with my fuzzy brush, I'm just gonna start to go in around the edges and blend. Okay, Let's see right through here. We want to be a little bit cautious, but it looks good. I just don't want to erase too much, get the dress in there because we don't want to cut into the dress at all. That's very, very important. But look at that. That's all it took such a simple little adjustment to make it look like the wind is blowing in a certain direction, and I think that that's phenomenal. I think it looks so nice.
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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