Create advanced composites

Accomplish the most challenging composites with the skills you will learn in this advanced Phlearn PRO Tutorial. We take you through step-by-step from shoot-to-edit to build new scenes that match your vision and add subjects that interact in believable ways.

Advanced Layer Masks

Cut people out of their backgrounds while preserving all the detail from the original photo. Capture perfect detail in your layer masks, allowing you to keep even the most complex details in the motorcycles.

Perfect Perspective

Always build your composite images to the correct perspective using our tested techniques. By creating a plan and keeping true to real life perspectives, your composites are guaranteed to be more amazing.

Blend and Composite

Learn the secrets to compositing and blending multiple photos together to create seamless, stunning effects. From start to finish, you will see how each image is adjusted and combined using Photoshop.

Build the Background

Learn how to combine multiple images together, even if they were taken in different locations with different lighting on completely different days. The background in this image is built from many different images.

Color Correction

Remove the complexities from correcting colors in shadows, mid-tones and highlights. At times, highlights are too warm or too saturated and need to be treated separately from other areas of an image. Learn how to correct color to make your composites blend perfectly.

Add Light Bounces

By placing a new light source into the composite, you affect everything else in the image and must retouch accordingly. See how to match the lighting between subjects and the scene.

Custom Photoshop Brushes

Create fire in any image. Learn to make your own Photoshop brushes so you’ll always have the right brush for the job. Custom brushes are excellent for advanced retouching and adding special effects to your images.

Match Highlight and Shadow

Create stronger composite images by matching the subject highlights and shadows to the background. Learn how advanced selections can keep the rest your subject intact while only editing the highlights.