Making A Quick Photo Composition In Photoshop

Photoshop expert Howard Pinsky demonstrates how to create a quick composition from two images using Photoshop.

Sometimes you have a great looking image but the background isn’t particularly interesting. On this quick video tutorial, Pinsky demonstrates how you can quickly take a part of one image and implant it into a second image and still keep everything looking as realistic as possible.

We start with making a selection, refine edge to improve it, output to a layer mask and add your background image and fix any areas which look a bit off. Now we need to fix the colors which might be a bit off by adding a curve adjustment layer. In the next step you can add a gradient map adjustment layer and use an overlay of soft light blend mode. Finally you can add a just a little bit of blur to the background.

Sounds complicated? Pinsky was able to show how you can do this in less than 3 min!

We have been looking at compositing a few times in the past here on LensVid including on “Compositing in Photoshop: an In-Depth Look” by photographer Gavin Hoey and “Behind the Scenes Compositing: A Dark Force” by Aaron Nace .

You can check out more of Pinsky’s videos here on LensVid as well as many more Photoshop related tutorials on LensVid’s Photoshop section.

Iddo Genuth

Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.