Integrating Photoshop into the Creative Studio

This week we worked on the module Integrating Photoshop into the Creative Studio with Tina Williams (www.tinaphoto.com). Throughout the module we focused on lighting and shooting different parts of an image and then bringing them all together in Photoshop. The key to doing this properly is to make sure nothing but the light moves. Any movement of the set or camera will make it awfully difficult to align the image in Photoshop. This is an example book/CD catalog shoot we did.

First we shot with the light directly on the book.

Here I'm raking the light to get the sparkles on the Santa book to show up.

Took out the front CD to get rid of the reflection/shadow it was casting on the back CD.

Put it all together in Photoshop and voila!

We also did a similar exercise with bags of chips. For our final assignment we placed an object into a scene and tried to make it look real.