Complete analysis of the professional techniques of Photoshop image synthesis

1. Where do I start? Background or object?

There is no standard answer. For the author, 75% time to first deal with the characters and then choose the appropriate background, 25% before the shooting has a good background, the shooting will be through some way to influence the background.

2. Photo Gallery

Panorama, canopy, picture, station cool, triple material, www.istockphoto.com, http://publicphoto.org/, http://web.2008php.com/and so on.

3. Create a background picture library

Background pictures are important in working with synthetic pictures. You need to get a good name for the picture at the beginning. You can use Photoshop Lightroom software for more and more background images for keyword search, collection and other functions.

4. A good constituency

Without a good, clean selection your photos will look unprofessional. You can use the Adjust edges and quick selection tools in Photoshop to quickly pull out a selection. Slow down You can use "channel", "Pen", "mask".

5. Light is everything.

Light is a key factor in the process of synthesizing photos. If the light in the composition is different, the synthetic effect will be untrue. Photographers need to grasp the light when shooting, such as the main light, auxiliary light applications, so that the figure has a clear contour is also easy to post-pull synthesis.

6. Don't dwell on the details, if it doesn't matter at all

For example, if you pull out a picture with a black edge, but it is combined with a black background, you don't have to ignore these black edges.

7. Let the steps darken down

If you don't want the viewer to notice which position, the best thing to do is to darken it. For example, if you want to synthesize a picture so that the character's feet fall on the ground, but the foot of the light and shadow difficult to deal with, simply directly to the image of the lower part of the dark down, so that the viewer only notice the area of the light. By looking at the people around them that might be synthetic posters or advertisements, their footsteps are almost always dimmed.

8. Do not include the foot of the character

If it is not necessary, do not put the character's feet on the screen.

9. Color links each element together

You will find that it is not difficult to put a character in another background, it is difficult for the character's feelings and colors to blend with the new background. At this time we need to adjust the color of various elements to make the composite picture more harmonious. You can use photo filters, gradient mappings, color patterns, and so on to adjust.

10. Plugin Program

Using Plug-ins can make your work faster, easier and simpler.

Nik software company's color efex Pro complete Plugin

It provides a large number of filters to help you complete the work of synthetic photos.

Topaz Adjust plug-in Topaz Labs Co., Ltd.

For example, add sharp or gravel effect to the picture.

Red Giant software company's Knoll Light Factory for Photoshop plugin

The flash of the lens and the slight texture make your work look more professional.

　　

1th Chapter The secret of the constituency

　　

1.1 Your best friend: Quick Select tool and adjust Edge

　　

The Quick Select tool

(1) Open a character picture, we contact how to pick out the characters from the background.

Classification:

• PS Composite Picture Tutorial