CompositeCon Tutorial Library

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CompositeCon is the single resource for all your compositing educational needs.

Learn where to start, how to find stock, and how to create captivating composites.
From newborns and maternity, to sports and fantasy, CompositeCon will help you learn how to extract, blend...

Learn how to make a field a little bit more magical!
Image by Selina Cotton

This tutorial is for beginner users to photoshop. In this tutorial you will learn: How to create a completely black background, use masks, levels, layers, resize and adjust the perspective of images, make groups and how to use smart objects.

Mermaid beach composite by Makememagical's Katie Forshaw.
Watch Katie transform a regular under exposed file taken before sunset, into a magical image with glowing planet and added shell and starfish stock.
See how to make reflections in water, paint hair, change colours of objects, add splashes ...

A beginners video of how to create the effect of being on TV. You will learn how to photograph to get the effect of pressing up against glass and against a black backdrop. You will learn how to create several effects of an old TV screen, including in color, black and white and tinted. Photosho...

Setting up your photo for a water reflection
Creating a displacement map
Adding the displacement map to the duplicated water image

Sample Displacement map supplied in zip file/psd file attached

You will learn how to use an action to create puzzle pieces. You will learn how to use different layers to scatter the puzzle pieces. You will learn how to spread the pieces symmetrically and add shadows to each layer.
https://www.designeasy.co/2015/05/free-puzzle-pieces-actions-for.html

Learn how to composite a fun sledge scene using radial zoom blur!

This is a video tutorial for beginners to photoshop. You will learn how to photograph for a floating subject, cut and mask out the subject, place them over a background and create the transparent glowing ghost effect.

Using select and mask and the refine edge brush to mask off hair from a solid colour background. This method works best on a solid contrasting coloured background.

In this tutorial you will learn: how to simulate moonlight, set up your background, flash and camera, cut out your subject, place them in a background with a moon, enhance rim light and add shadows.

Learn how to take a sunny day at golden hour and turn it into a rainy day picture.

A mega Poppyfield backdrop pack can be purchased at https://www.compositecon.shop/online-store/24-Summer-Creamy-Poppy-Field-Digital-backdrops-digital-background-poppy-backgrounds-p212373118

Learn how to superimpose and blend in a fairy tale princess. Background and raw file included.

In this tutorial you will learn 2 ways of working with flour. For backgrounds containing full flour, you will learn: how to photograph someone in flour, light your subject, cut out the subject, blend them with a flour background. For backgrounds with precut angel shape, you will learn: how to c...

Learn how to composite a fun sledge scene using radial zoom blur!

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a head popping out of another head. You will learn: how to photograph for this, how to cut out the images, how to remove the portion of the head, add shadows and the piece of skin at the edge of the cut.