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Discover the essential techniques to create composites from multiple photos using Adobe Photoshop. Author and photographer Chris Orwig demonstrates how to work around tricky exposure challenges, create stronger group photos, craft creative photo illustrations, and more. This course also covers multiple compositing scenarios, including portraits and architectural photos, and illustrates the process of selecting the images, blending photos with layer masks and blend modes, and resizing and sharpening the results. Along the way, Chris shares his insights for making photos look more dramatic and interesting.
Topics include:

    Combining facial expressions from two images
    Creating a better group portrait with Photomerge
    Removing a subject from the background
    Changing the scale of a subject
    Enhancing the color and tone of a composite image
    Masking together multiple exposures
    Filling in background gaps
    Correcting overexposure
    Replacing the sky in an image
    Creating reflections
    Building in shadows