A Kudu Rivalry
A Kudu Rivalry Below is a gallery of the images used in the composition. The forest and animals images were my own captures. The sky images were stock. Input Files:
Category: Compositing
The Desert Dwellers
The Desert Dwellers The two yellow sky images and the sand texture were stock images, the rest were images I captured in my travels. The animals are from the Natural Bridge Wildlife Ranch outside San Antonio.
The Mighty Bison
The first in a series of digital art photo manipulations – The Mighty Bison. The images used in this creation
Light Painting A Classic Corvette
This is a second car project I attempted after learning how to do light painting at Texas School this year. As stated in a previous post, I took John Hartman’s class on light painting, which was a blast! I really learn a lot about this technique and was eager to…
Newest Composite – The Gates of Hell
So I had this cool character from two years ago at the Texas Photo Festival in Smithville, Texas and I’ve been wanting to do a composite with him… I also wanted to experiment with building my own fire with brushes because I wasn’t happy with most of the techniques I’ve…
Day to Night – Using ACR and Adjustments
This article is the third technique in the series of turning day-to-night. In this technique, we are going to touch on a few more complicated concepts of using smart filters, loading a luminosity mask from the channel panels and making adjustment to a curve adjustment mask in addition to a…
Day to Night – Using LUTs
The second technique we will cover in the series on turning day to night will use the color lookup tables or LUTs that also come with Photoshop. LUTs are used in the video industry but are starting to gain popularity with photography editing as well. With recent changes to Lightroom…
Day to Night – Gradient Map Technique
The second series in my compositing tutorials was planned to be lighting techniques. But as I started documenting the various topics, I realized that the first thing we need to do is make sure the everyone knows a process for converting their images from day to night. Most compositors that make…
How to Clone In Perspective
This will be the final article in this series on Perspective. Before we leave the topic, I wanted to give you a quick example of how this same technique can be used to do a perspective clone within an image. There are other tools in Photoshop such as the clone…
Demonstrating When Perspective Doesn’t Match
This is the fourth article in the series on compositing with perspective. We have covered the basic concepts of perspective, examined how to find the vanishing point and horizon in an image and discussed why the horizon is important. In this lesson we will demonstrate how to test whether the horizon…