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May 24, 2010In this example, the Chinese gentleman was taken three weeks earlier in Shanghai, and in overcast daylight. There was some directional lighting on him, so the first thing I had to do was flip him horizontally to match the scene. Then contrast was increased, and several fairly radical Curves layers used to make him look like he was photographed at night. But the most significant work was done by diplicating the layer, and setting the Blend mode to Screen. This brightens things quite a bit, so a layer mask was added to the Screen layer, and the mask used to control where the bright bits were supposed to be. You could duplicate the Screen layer if you wanted bits to be even brighter. I forgot to say, that a fair bit of time went into the Dodge and Burn tools.
The background is a HDR taken in San Francisco of course.
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May 24, 2010Josh I had a relevant tutorial kicking about in the back of my mind, but it has taken me this long to track it down.
The site has heaps of better than average tutorials on producing good quality composites and image manipulations, and can be found at:
The tutorial I was thinking about can be found at:
http://www.psdbox.com/tutorials/thing-called-love-manipulation-tutoria l/
This is the end result:
Have a look at this one as well, which looks specifically at how to light stock images into a realistic composite:
http://www.psdbox.com/tutorials/conceptual-artwork-photoshop-tutorial/
End result:
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