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Portrait Project: Changing a Background for Dramatic Effect
English | Size: 545 MB
Category: Lynda.com

Studio portraits can sometimes benefit from the visual interest a new backdrop can provide. In this installment of Portrait Project, Chris Orwig shows how to remove a subject from a studio environment and place her against a different background.

First, Chris shows how to crop the portrait and improve details in Camera Raw. Then, in Photoshop, he shows how to make a selection, refine its edges, and convert it to a mask, and combine it with another image. In the second half of the course, he covers how to make the subject look at home in her new environment using a hand-painted darkening effect, blur, and color and tone adjustments. [Read more…]

Lynda – Portrait Project- Changing a Background for Dramatic Effect
English | Size: 700 MB
Category: Lynda.com

In this course the first in a series dedicated to creative portrait adjustments Chris Orwig shows how to swap out the background of a portrait with something new. This technique is similar to photo illustration and can result in some really striking and visually interesting photographs. Chris begins in Camera Raw where he creates multiple exposures of the original raw file and combines them in a PSD file and then moves to Photoshop to mask the subject and copy the mask into the new background. In the second half of the course hell show you how to make the subject look at home in her new environment using Edge Glow; brightness color and tone adjustments; and lens flares. [Read more…]