Understanding how shadows are created (their shape, distance and fall off) is essential to being able to reproduce them in any composite work you do in Photoshop. We'll explore those concepts and the ways I like to create shadows, in this video.

Frequency Separation is one of the most powerful techniques in all of digital photo editing. Through this process we separate the details from the color in an image and can work on them independently to be able to achieve so much in our art. We'll briefly explore the basic use for skin retouchi...

Extracting a subject from an image is relatively easy - repairing the inevitable issues of extraction, can be tough. We'll explore the best practices for repairing extractions, removing halos and adding one level of special effects to a subject.

Making it all believable is one of the final key points to any composite art. There are many techniques to unify all of the stock elements in place and we'll certainly explore some of those, but what stock you use will be a vital decision. We'll discuss that and more in this techniques video.