Portrait Compositing: Create Realistic Photo Blends

Creating a believable composite photo requires more than just cutting and pasting a subject onto a new background. To make a portrait composite look truly realistic, you must align lighting, perspective, and color tones perfectly. This text-based course guides you through the foundational principles of portrait compositing from the ground up. You will understand how to plan your setups, match perspectives, and use advanced blending techniques to place your subjects in any environment seamlessly. What you will learn: Understand the core terminology of compositing, including masking, layers, and non-destructive editing; Analyze lighting direction, quality, and angles to ensure your subject matches the new background; Master precise selection and extraction techniques for complex details like hair and soft edges; Apply color grading and matching methods to unify the subject and the background; Create realistic contact and cast shadows to ground your subject; Implement modern non-destructive workflows to keep your edits flexible. You will start by learning the essential theory behind perspective and light matching before moving into step-by-step written tutorials that walk you through selection, blending, and final color harmonizing. This course is designed for beginner photographers and photo editors who want to learn compositing without needing prior design experience. Start reading today to unlock the creative freedom of placing your portrait subjects anywhere.