Thursday, January 15, 2009
Photoshop Workbench 160: Compositing with Smart Objects
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Today, I’d like to show you one compelling reason why you should use Smart Objects when compositing photographs. In the case of this image taken by Brian Luke Seaward at Morraine Lake in Alberta, Canada, I’d like to apply different color correction to the top and bottom. Smart Objects give me the freedom to color correct both halves individually in a completely non-destructive fashion. Here’s how.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 3:14 am
Thank you so much for these videos. Also enjoyed your tutorial on Dramatic Studio Lighting on the NAPP website.
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 4:30 am
Very informative as always Mark! Thanks!!
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 5:36 am
Hi Mark, huge fan here, watch your tutorials every week. I just wish you would alert people more to watch out for banding. In your latest tutorial, the edits would be absolutely unusable because the sky has significant banding, caused by the over-the-top edits done. I noticed this issue a couple of times in your tutorials. Skies are always iffy and typically tolerate very little edits (esp. contrast, brightness, etc.)
Thursday, January 15, 2009 at 4:34 pm
Very good lesson Mark its certainly a great way of blending, thank’s
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 12:37 am
Great use of the warp feature I never though of using this as opposed to retouching. Nice Site BTW
Regards
Adrian
http:/www.weddingphotoshot.com
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 9:38 am
Great tutorial, Mark. I’m curious, however, why you didn’t just hold down the shift key when you were in the RAW converter to open the image up as a Smart Object instead of changing your Workflow Options? I’m guessing that opening up a document as a Smart Object will be the exception (for situations such as the one you worked on) rather than the rule. Consequently, using the shift key option for this kind of exception would seem preferable.
Friday, January 16, 2009 at 9:52 pm
Great tutorial as usual. Many thanks.
Monday, January 19, 2009 at 5:51 am
Mark, awesome tutorial. So awesome, I’ve twittered it!
cheers, alec
Monday, January 19, 2009 at 8:53 am
Very nice and clear. This may be a better way of using techniques similar to HDR blending.
Monday, January 19, 2009 at 7:59 pm
I love the tutorial. My only suggestion is in the brief synopsis. Having only a year or so of Photoshop/Lightroom under my belt, I get hung up on terminology. You state “apply different color corrections” in the description. To me color correction is more establishing the colors as they were originally seen, removing casts, establishing the correct white/black points. I think this would be more of “exposure re-processing” in a non-destructive way with smart filters.