Introduction to Fantasy Compositing

AFTER THIS CLASS YOU’LL BE ABLE TO:

• Master Skin Retouching
• Composite in Photoshop
• Create Masks
• Replace Backgrounds
• Color Grade in Adobe Camera Raw

ABOUT RENEE'S CLASS:

Sometimes the worlds we want to create are only accessible in our minds. Studio photography and costuming is only part of the visual story. This class is an introduction to creating composite portraiture with fantasy models and designers.

Using Adobe Photoshop you will learn how to retouch skin and remove wrinkles in fabric to remove distractions, mask intricate costuming for clean extractions, and blend backgrounds together, create beautiful color grading with Adobe Camera Raw and learn to save the presets for future artwork.

WHO THIS CLASS IS FOR:

• Beginner and intermediate Photoshop users.
• Studio portrait photographers who want to learn compositing.
• Fantasy and fine art photographers of any level.

SOFTWARE USED:

Adobe Photoshop 2019
Adobe Camera Raw

ABOUT YOUR INSTRUCTOR:

Growing up surrounded by the vast prairie of the Canadian north and tales of faraway places, Renée Robyn has chased the perfect backdrop around the world. Approaching photography like a treasure hunter, her compositions are uniquely cinematic, often becoming pieces of a bigger world represented beyond reality. Renée’s style is easily recognizable and distinctly her own. Expertly blending fact, fiction, and a little digital alchemy, she has worked with industry-leading brands like Wacom, Viewsonic, Corel, Capture One, and Intel.

Comfortable facing down gale force winds, climbing fog-shrouded mountains or fast pace commercial studios, her work is impressive and committed. An expert retoucher, Renée applies the same level of commitment to post-processing, leveraging her mastery of color theory, editing, light, and shadow in the digital realm of Photoshop.

She has presented lectures around the world, including PhotoPlus, WPPI, Photokina, CreativeLive, ProEdu, and more.