I’m teaching Photoshop online now, and I’ve created a lot of new composites to exemplify the various techniques I demonstrate. Just because I’m not traveling at this time, I still love making new pictures. It's amazing how you can go through pictures in your files and come up great combinations -- composites -- that never occurred to you before. This is a 3-image composite of the entrance of the Taj Mahal. The archway image is actually a 7-frame HDR because the contrast between the outside and the interior of the large room was quite extreme. The Taj seen through the opening had way too many people to clone out, so I used another image, taken at sunrise, with only a few people in the distance. Finally, I used the quick selection tool in Photoshop to select the woman wearing a beautiful sari. I photograph a lot of Indian women from behind who wear the traditional attire because the colors and designs are so striking. I feathered the selection with Select > modify > feather and then placed her into the scene. Using Edit > transform > scale I sized her appropriately. Finally, I added a drop shadow beneath her shoes to complete the realism. At the bottom of the layers palette, click the ‘fx’ icon to gain access to the drop shadow dialog box. My next Photoshop online training starts Jan. 24.
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