7 Steps to Successful
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ombining images opens the door to endless creative possibilities. The sky is the limit. You can fix myriad problems in your photographic images, create fantasy worlds, change atmospheric conditions, put subjects in places where they’ve never been, and even create a bit of humor.
Photoshop. For example, you can’t do sophisticated compositing. To add an egret and it’s reflection in a Louisiana swamp, below, and a Cuban ballerina to a room in the Kremlin in Moscow, next page, you have to work in Photoshop.
I know Photoshop is intimidating to many people and that many photographers stick with Lightroom because it’s easier. However, LR doesn’t have the same funtionality as
What follows are the 7 steps you must become familiar with in order to make successful composite images. Practice does make perfect, but the number one thing you have to be good at is critiquing your own work. Hon-
