Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
Brooke Shaden
Lesson Info
50. Editing Composite Shoot #3- Blending Composite Elements
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- Blending Composite Elements
for this final image. We have the ropes and I actually already chose which ones I liked, which are this image which I chose because the hair is so good, right? The hair is really moving and I love the hand position. And then I chose this one just for the other hand, Thio added on. So let's bring those in and I'm going to cheat a little bit because we already built that room out and added all the texture of the backdrop to the walls. So I'm going to use that base and then we're going to build from there. So let's take these two images in. You can see it's already there. We already built it. No need Thio build the empire again. It's it's already there. I'm just gonna drop myself into the shops. So let's go ahead and do that. And the way that I want to do that is by selecting my main shot, which is this one, and I'm gonna take the whole thing with my move tool down in. Of course, it's too big, just like the last one was, so we could take it down to an appropriate size, which I think will ...
be right about there. Just gonna go down, go down. Okay, That looks pretty good to me. So now obviously, we have to blend that background in. So let's create our layer mask and start thio lightly erase all around those hard edges that we never, ever, ever want. In a composite, we say no to hard edges, right? Yes. And we'll get rid of that. I'm gonna try a new tactic this time, which is to keep, uh, the floor in. Let's see if it works, we'll just see. And this is how we learn when we edit is we just see if it works or if it doesn't work. It's okay if it doesn't work. But if it does, then we won't have to recreate shadows. It'll already be done for us. So I'm going Thio. Just go in and get rid of the wall here. So just like we did before now my brush is too fuzzy for that. So let's go ahead and fix it. Take the hardness up and there. Okay, good. That way we have a really hard brush. I know that. I just erased myself. Don't worry, because we're going to bring it back That okay? And I'm just gonna bring back my legs where I need them. Just like that. Good. And you can see that I still have too much there. So this is just a game of erasing and bringing back and seeing how well you could do with that. Now I'm going Thio, make my best attempt, taking the hardness down at keeping this floor as much as possible. We don't want any hard edges, so getting rid of the hard edges here and the way that I'm going to do this is to take the floor. Oops. I got rid of too much There is to take the floor and try to match the color and the lighting thio the floor that exists in this room. Let's see how we dio. Okay, So selecting on the floor all around my toes, just like that and feathering mm 20 pixels. Let's say let's see how we dio we're gonna pin that curve that I just made onto the floor make it brighter. But really, it's the color that we need to fix. So we need to get rid of the red. That's the first thing that I see is that there's too much red. So get rid of the red toe, add Zion. And then now there's too much yellow. So get rid of the yellow by adding blue. Okay, this might work. We shall see. And then I'm gonna go in with a lower opacity, brush something around 50% and just keep erasing basically anywhere that you can. I don't want this line in there, so that's something that we can clone stamp out, but anywhere that you can erase while leaving the shadow and where the feet connect the better. So I think that doesn't look too bad, and it's obviously we have a lot to fix here. I cut off my heel. Perhaps you noticed, so we gotta bring that back. But aside from little tweaks like that, I think that it's not going to poorly weaken. Definitely take advantage of that floor, which is a really big help, I think so. That's something that I would be invested in keeping, and it's just gonna need more finesse, just like we've been doing just going in and lightly with no hardness on the brush, just going in and kind of blending it, lending it all around like that
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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