Category: compositing

Photographer makes multitasking in the kitchen a breeze with some post processing magic

John Aldred

For most of us, it seems like there just isn’t enough time in the day. With a little help from Photoshop, photographer Sarah Santiny found the perfect multitasking solution. This really is levitation photography taken to the extreme. When I saw the above image scroll though my Facebook feed, it drew me right in. The idea is fantastic, […]

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Photoshop Power Tip: photograph objects over flour to give them a cracked look

Udi Tirosh

Here is a quick, yet powerful tip from Felix Alejandro Hernández Rodríguez. It is simple and all it involves is a couple packs of flour, and can really boost a photo. Here is how Felix describes it: Here is a simple technique that I “discovered” a while ago… It has been useful in some projects… With […]

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Power Trick: shadows for composites and digital manipulation

Aad Sommeling

Shadows are often the hardest part when creating composites. In my workshop I often get the question can’t we just take a copy of the model, duplicate that, make it black and use that as a shadow. My answer was always ‘no’ till recently. I am gonna show you a way how you can (often) use […]

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How to composite a car into a new background in Photoshop CC

John Aldred

Unless we are an automotive photographer, getting access to fancy cars at the environments in which we’d like to photograph them can be a tricky proposition.  But what can we do with those images of cars we get on the street or at shows? In this video tutorial from Tutvid, photographer Nathaniel Dodson shows us how we can cut […]

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Here is how to composite around the world, get free LUT sets and win a 30% discount

Udi Tirosh

I know how hard it is to find a good set of backplates for your composites. If you don’t travel the world, your options are kinda limited. Well, we got someone to travel the world for you. And she travels with an 80 mega pixels Mamia Cred medium format camera. Rebecca Bathory travels to exotic locations […]

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Dean Samed : The UK’s most prolific genre cover artist

Clinton lofthouse

If you ever entered the dark depths of Deviantart a few years back, you would have most likely stumbled upon the name Conzpiracy at some point in your journey. Like a modern day urban legend, his complex manipulations of the macabre made waves through the DA community. Conzpiracy’s Photoshop tutorials were coveted by users in […]

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Boy with a rare brain disorder lives dream to be an nba basketball star

Karen Alsop

Joshua was born with a Vein of Galen Malformation. He has a malformation in the blood vessels of his brain that steals blood from the rest of the brain. He has had 6 strokes, left weakness, epilepsy, intellectual disabilities. He is the eldest surviving child with his condition in Australia. Joshua’s condition is now considered […]

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What you need to know about realistic photo compositing and image manipulation – a primer

Aad Sommeling

Creating realistic photo composites or photo manipulation isn’t as hard as it looks. The steps you have to take to create a good composite are actually all pretty logical. I will try to explain the steps and common mistakes many people make in the following article. [editor’s note: we are huge fans of Aad Sommeling. […]

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Creating a new breed of super hero, one sad and lonely photo at a time

John Aldred

When I first came across the work of Russian photographer, Ilya Nodia, I knew I was going to like what I saw as I headed towards his portfolio. In this particular project, the tale of “Captain Sadness”, the story goes something like this… In 1989, young Rick Sogers won a lookalike competition of Captain America in […]

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