Basic compositing

Get to grips with the basics of image compositing by adding new elements to your photographs for more visual interest

PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS IS a fantastic tool for tweaking and perfecting your digital images. However, it’s also incredibly fun to use if you want to add extra elements into a scene that were not there when you captured the image – more commonly referred to as a composite image. Composites are commonplace in professional advertising photography, as it’s often the case that the campaign calls for either an impossible scenario to be shot, or when logistically it’s expensive or difficult to place the item or person that you want photographed in the location that you want them in. These types of composites are very complex and often take teams of retouchers tens of man hours to compile. While this tutorial doesn’t go to these lengths, it serves as a good introduction…

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