Composite Info

Stacey L

Hi all:
I've always been able to get some good info from this forum. I'm getting a lot of requests for these types of portraits ( link below). I'm not interested in the lighting or camera info, I got that and it will change based on your creativity. What's confusing to me is the Photoshop. I know they are composites (sometimes more than 2), but how does he get "them" to actually touch each other/overlap? Is he using a stand-in and then auto-align and painting over or is he masking/cloning? haven't been able to find anything out here on the web and, no, the very talented photographer is not coughing up his secrets
http://www.google.com/...p;sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
Thanks so much for your help in advance,

RalphAdam

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals has some good recent tutorials on how to do precisely what you're looking for. If you're a member, they're free.

Stacey L wrote:

Hi all:
I've always been able to get some good info from this forum. I'm getting a lot of requests for these types of portraits ( link below). I'm not interested in the lighting or camera info, I got that and it will change based on your creativity. What's confusing to me is the Photoshop. I know they are composites (sometimes more than 2), but how does he get "them" to actually touch each other/overlap? Is he using a stand-in and then auto-align and painting over or is he masking/cloning? haven't been able to find anything out here on the web and, no, the very talented photographer is not coughing up his secrets
http://www.google.com/...p;sa=X&oi=image_result&resnum=2&ct=image
Thanks so much for your help in advance,

Stacey L

Are there any that can be reposted here, Ralph? I'm not a NAPP member--too expensive right now for me:cry

RalphAdam wrote:

The National Association of Photoshop Professionals has some good recent tutorials on how to do precisely what you're looking for. If you're a member, they're free.