Photoshop Compositing : Create a Silhouette Night Scene

Name: Photoshop Compositing : Create a Silhouette Night Scene
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Master Photoshop Compositing By Recreating a Practical Real World Project

Created byRabii Mhamdi

Last updated 1/2019

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What you'll learn

how to create snow, fog and grass brushes from scratch and use them in your composite and even save them as presets for future use by exploring the brush settings panel in detail
how to extract a background from a busy image using advanced masking techniques
how to work with light and shadow to create a silhouette effect
how to blend a subject to a background and match light and perspective
how to apply atmospheric perspective to add depth to a photo
you will be able to combine multiple images together and create amazing composites very easily using the skills and the techniques that you've learned

Course content

2 sections • 13 lectures • 1h 44m total length

Installing The Brushes & Using The Source Images4:19
Create a gloomy forest night-scene composite in photoshop using advanced masking and custom snow and fog brushes. Learn to locate source images and install the brushes for hands-on progress.
Extracting The Background5:15
Creating The Fog Brush8:16
Learn to create a custom fog brush in Photoshop by extracting cloud edges with the red channel, masking, and painting fog with dynamic brush settings.
Creating The Background - Part 113:50
Create the background for your Photoshop silhouette night scene by importing and resizing the image, masking edges with a soft brush, and building depth with fog and tree layers.
Creating The Background Part 26:00
Turn the background into a dramatic night scene by applying a central light, fog adjustments, and a vignette, using gradient overlays, levels, masks, and group-based layering.
Adding Background Snow9:50
Explore two methods to add background snow to a silhouette night scene: use filter gallery with noise and levels, or create a custom brush and apply blur for realism.

Adding The Grass8:48
Learn to add foreground grass to a silhouette night scene in Photoshop by creating a ground, importing vector grass, defining a brush preset, and painting multi-layer, varied blades for depth.
Adding Scene Elements8:10
Add scene elements like plants and branches with stock images, saturate and adjust levels, and blend them behind the fog to craft a cohesive silhouette night scene.
Creating The Foreground Part 16:23
Import and place the foreground image, desaturate to black and white, and use levels to create depth with layered plants. Duplicate and rotate layers, then paint fog with grass brushes.
Creating The Foreground Part 28:06
Continue building the foreground by organizing plant layers into groups, then add grass and fog for depth. Use smart objects, blur, and levels to focus attention at the center.
Adding Background Caracters5:19
Use Photoshop compositing to add background characters by organizing layers, placing storm troopers and robots behind fog, using layer masks and levels to blend them into a silhouette night scene.
Lesson 12 - Adding Foreground Caracters9:12
Add foreground characters in Photoshop by grouping, transforming, and using clip masks. Paint fog to improve depth and perspective, and refine with masks and layering for a cohesive composite.
Lesson 13 - Adding Detail & Finishing Touches11:14
Enhance the silhouette night scene by adding glowing helmet and robot lights, boosting contrast with curves and a vignette, and layering snow, dust, and motion blur particles.

Requirements

preferred to have the latest version of photoshop installed by i'll be explaining how to achieve certain effects with older versions of photoshop
this course is aimed towards designers who have intermediate to advanced photoshop skills and want to improve their compositing and photo editing skills and learn new and advanced techniques from a practical real world project, and if that sounds like you then you are in the right place

Description

hello and welcome to creative compositing: create a silhouette night scene in photoshop, my name is rabii and im so excited to bring you this class

photoshop compositing is wide world and learning compositing can help you unlock unlimited creativity and potential, you will be able to create amazing and realistic composites by combining multiple images together and blending them to create seamless composites using advanced skills and techniques like atmospheric perspective matching and painting, advanced brushes, lighting effects and more

the idea behind this course is there are a lot of places where you can learn how photoshop Operates what the tools do and how they work, but this course is a little bit different because it is focused on a topic, and will teach you specific skills and techniques from a real world example

we will start by creating the background of our composite and you will learn how to extract a background from a buzy image using advanced masking techniques,

then we are gonna add multiple layers of fog and trees on top and you will learn how to paint fog and add atmosphere to an image

we will continue by showing you how to create a moody scene and adding multiple element to the composite, how to work with light and shadow to create a silhouette effect, how to blend a subject to a background and match light and perspective, how to apply atmospheric perspective to add depth to a photo

you will also learn how to create snow, fog and grass brushes from scratch and use them in your composite and even save them as presets for future use by exploring the brush settings panel in detail

so by the end of this class you will be able to combine multiple images together and create amazing composites very easily using the skills and the techniques that you've learned

this course is aimed towards designers who have intermediate to advanced photoshop skills and want to improve their compositing and photo editing skills and learn new and advanced techniques from a practical real world project,

and if that sounds like you then you are in the right place

i can't wait to see your projects, we have a lot to cover so if you are ready to take your photoshop skills to the next level enroll now and let's jump strait into the class and get started

Who this course is for:

this course is aimed towards designers who have intermediate to advanced photoshop skills and want to improve their compositing and photo editing skills and learn new and advanced techniques from a practical real world project, and if that sounds like you then you are in the right place

Photoshop Compositing : Create a Silhouette Night Scene

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Creating The Background6 lectures • 48min

Creating The Foreground7 lectures • 57min

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