Photoshop Tutorial - Composite Image "Berry Splash"

This movie shows a simple technique for creating a composite of two different images in order to use the best aspects of each one. Its pretty basic, but hopefully you find it helpful. Hi-rez version can be found on my blog, www.cmhimaging.com/blog.

Category:

Howto & Style

Tags:

• photoshop
• tutorial
• layer
• mask
• photograhy
• studio
• splash

[ktakytzu]

Wouldn't it have been easier to put the camera in burst mode?It would most likely captured a perfect splash frame and you had speared time on post-processing.

[cmhimaging]

The lighting for this was strobe and it would not recycle fast enough to get much of a fps rate. To get enough continuous light on the scene to make it look the same as the strobe image AND get enough depth of field for the entire glass AND get a shutter speed that would fully stop motion (maybe 2000 or 4000... remember those water droplets are moving very fast and are quite close to the lens in absolute terms) would be almost impossible.

[jellotime91]

You shouldn't have free-transformed because that can cause you to lose the aspect ratio.

Hold shift and resize from the corners.

[cmhimaging]

I did not hold the shift key because each time I set up the shot I had to move the glass (to clean up all of the spilled water). So if the glass was slightly off center, or worse slightly closer or farther from the camera that will change the perspective of the glass. Therefor I was trying to align position, size AND perspective with the free transform... that's why I didn't use the shift key.

[EKCxVaNiTY]

Looks like an advertisement for a drink you'd see in a magazine.

[wunto]

do you know that you can use color range by click on select - color range, then select the unwanted range color of your top layer, that way, you can remove stuff quicker...

[barnoonan]

useless. assumes way too much knowedge. you don't say what and where you get the tools you just rush throughg

[DigidesignScrap]

great information, thank you

[parasol222]

nice but there's so many easier ways to do it better and faster, nice video

[FuryPhotos]

@happygamestvfun1 actually I'm a better person and artist than you have a good life and sorry you feel better by bringing people down. I know it must be hard to be hated good luck in life though your wasting yours

[happygamestvfun1]

@FuryPhotos no your just an optimistc shit head wth schosophrenia

[happygamestvfun1]

@Insomnium555 no tis copyrighted

[happygamestvfun1]

@ktakytzu it's obviously for demonstration perposes only... there is a lot of stuff wrong with the practicality of this... for instance the glass would be shot behing a green screen...

[happygamestvfun1]

looks liek CGI, now tell me how do it do this with after effects...

[happygamestvfun1]

looks 3D

[VfxGodOfDK]

Just do some basic masking ;D ??