gattphotos (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} gattphotos) wrote,@ 2008-04-16 22:27:00 |
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composite tutorial
i figured i'd give a basic composite tutorial to show you guys how to go about this stuff quickly rather then deal with the hassle of lassos and selections.
a couple of my roommates and i were outside skating when i setup the strobe and started shooting. joe had wanted to ollie over jaime, but jaime wasn't looking to take a board to the face. i had suggested compositing it, so i brought out the tripod and setup.
first i shot joe ollieing as high as he could, clipped off three frames of this choosing the best of the three.
then i had jaime lay down, it took some directing to get him to pose how i wanted. i snapped off three frames of him looking in different directions as i was unsure of where joe was at when he was ollied, or which frame of joe i would use. normally i would take alot more just to make sure i cover all my bases, but this wasn't serious work and jaime wasn't looking to lay that long on the ground.
i then decided i wanted to be in the shot, so i hit the self timer and ran over.
poor judge, the house pit bull, was looking on with big sad eyes, so i decided to bring him in and fill up the frame. as you can see it wasn't easy getting him to sit still, so i snapped off three and this was the best one. i'll go over how i didn't include joe in the frame in a sec, but to flip judge's head so he was looking the right way i selected it using magnetic lasso, created a new layer via copy, pulled up my free transform handles using apple + t, then flipped it horizontally under edit > transform > flip horizontally. the judge head left in the background was clone stamped out.
here's my layers palette from when i pasted all the pictures ontop of the same picture, and guess what i used: that's right, layer masks. simply layer masks. i revealed the layer masks of each layer, inverted the mask, then brought out the white brush and painted them on. to make sure joe didn't show up in the shot with judge i simply didn't paint him in. no hassle with selections, no bothering with trying to blend in hard edges of a lasso copy, just brushes. you can even see in the layer masks how sloppy and quick i was in painting them on. becoming effective with layer masks and understanding how they work is the most important tool in my opinion when it comes to editing photos in photoshop.
i figured i'd give a basic composite tutorial to show you guys how to go about this stuff quickly rather then deal with the hassle of lassos and selections.
a couple of my roommates and i were outside skating when i setup the strobe and started shooting. joe had wanted to ollie over jaime, but jaime wasn't looking to take a board to the face. i had suggested compositing it, so i brought out the tripod and setup.
first i shot joe ollieing as high as he could, clipped off three frames of this choosing the best of the three.
then i had jaime lay down, it took some directing to get him to pose how i wanted. i snapped off three frames of him looking in different directions as i was unsure of where joe was at when he was ollied, or which frame of joe i would use. normally i would take alot more just to make sure i cover all my bases, but this wasn't serious work and jaime wasn't looking to lay that long on the ground.
i then decided i wanted to be in the shot, so i hit the self timer and ran over.
poor judge, the house pit bull, was looking on with big sad eyes, so i decided to bring him in and fill up the frame. as you can see it wasn't easy getting him to sit still, so i snapped off three and this was the best one. i'll go over how i didn't include joe in the frame in a sec, but to flip judge's head so he was looking the right way i selected it using magnetic lasso, created a new layer via copy, pulled up my free transform handles using apple + t, then flipped it horizontally under edit > transform > flip horizontally. the judge head left in the background was clone stamped out.
here's my layers palette from when i pasted all the pictures ontop of the same picture, and guess what i used: that's right, layer masks. simply layer masks. i revealed the layer masks of each layer, inverted the mask, then brought out the white brush and painted them on. to make sure joe didn't show up in the shot with judge i simply didn't paint him in. no hassle with selections, no bothering with trying to blend in hard edges of a lasso copy, just brushes. you can even see in the layer masks how sloppy and quick i was in painting them on. becoming effective with layer masks and understanding how they work is the most important tool in my opinion when it comes to editing photos in photoshop.
