Introduction to Compositing: Creating Your First Composite Portrait

Final Adjustments

If you’ve made it this far, you are almost done with a great first composite! I think there are three remaining issues that we need to address to finish the image. First, the clouds are too dark for the scene. Second, Karyna is a little too red and saturated. And finally, we need some additional overall color and contrast. Let’s get to work and wrap this up!

Here’s where the image stands right now (A). And here’s the current Layers palette (I moved the Karyna Backup layer below the Clouds layer to get it out of the way) (B).

A

The current state of our composited image.

B

Lightening the Clouds

Select the Clouds layer. We are ...