From the course: Brooke Shaden's Conceptual Photography: Start to Finish

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Compositing in Photoshop

Compositing in Photoshop

When I get into Photoshop, the first thing that I want to do always is figure out my background. So, I'm not concerned about you know, taking the subject, make sure she looks great. And, and doing some color work to it or anything. I just want to construct the room. So, for this in particular, I had to take half of the room and then mirror it to the other side. So I'm creating the illusion that we were inside a confined space. (MUSIC). All of my work are squares. I love working in the square format, and that kind of comes from my beginning in photography, of not liking photography in any way and loving painting. And so it's an interesting way to work because you're, you're framing things differently than you normally would. And I think that's why I'm so drawn to a center composition with the subject, because, you know, they're right in the center of a square frame, so everything is very symmetrical. So I went ahead and cropped, and I had my square. Everything lined up exactly as I…

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