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- Best dad ever.
That's me.
So the other day I posted this photo.
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and some of you nice people
had some pretty nice things to say, such as,
"Amazing dude!"
this is one of those that go like, (yells)
I think he was going, I don't know if
he was going like woo or wow, but I really like it.
"Still obsessed.
"I need a shot like this like I need air."
How could I disagree with that?
Thank you, Starr.
And comments such as, com, composite hype?
Comp, he's got my secret.
So yes, I composited the photo,
so it's actually two photos in one.
And I'm going to show you how to do it,
so I'm gonna give away my Kryptonite here.
So I actually started with a photo I took in Ohio,
of my friend Daniel, jumping on a hill that we found
during sunset, which is dope by itself so, you know,
I figured why not add a star sky in there.
This is from Acadia, at Cadillac Mountain.
So I'm going to open both of these in Photoshop,
oh, I should note that I'm on the new Macbook,
so it's like dongle-central over here
and I don't know if everything's set up right.
Alright, so we've got both the photos in Photoshop here
and what I usually do to start with is
do the Instagram portrait crop, which is five by four.
So I just want the night sky in there,
so I'm going to get rid of the bottom part of that photo
with a mask, so the mask button here's on the bottom right,
and this lets you erase parts of the area
without actually erasing it.
So now this looks nice,
but we want the stars to take up more of the image,
so I'm actually going to increase the size of the stars.
Now we have a full night sky.
I'm going to go back to the mask layer
and edit it a little bit more,
get rid of that bottom area there.
So what I actually did to make Daniel pop here,
is brought him out in front of the star field
so I zoomed in, hide that layer for a second,
select him, duplicate the layer.
And then do a mask
and now you can see, he's out of the star field now.
So I want to blend it to be a little bit more natural
so I'm going to start erasing areas of the star field.
So in Photoshop, it lets you control the Flow and Opacity
so I'm going to put the Opacity down a little bit there,
and that'll let me erase without actually erasing
so it creates a nice seamless look here.
I like that the stars are hitting him.
So I'm gonna start off with this and then save it
and that's going to bring it back into Lightroom.
Lightroom does a lot of the work here,
mainly the colors and things like that.
So here you can see our freshly imported photo.
I always do Upright Correction
and Lens and Chromatic Aberration Correction
but it doesn't work on this photo
because it doesn't know what lens I used.
So we're going to pump up the Vignetting here,
get the sides darker.
I'm going to use a lot of Gradient Filters on this.
So I'm going to get the top to be a little bit blacker,
gonna use a multiple of them,
so it just kinda fades to darkness up there.
And then I'm going to modify
the Temperature and Tint of the top part.
And the Tint of the whole image, maybe a little bit here.
Brighten it up a little bit.
Decrease the Highlights.
And the Whites.
I like to keep it to be a silhouette,
so I'm going to bring the Blacks down a little bit.
Then we'll do a Radial Filter in the middle,
with Inverted Mask so it does the inside
with increasing the Brightness
and then changing the Tint to be more yellow
so it really brings out that sun effect.
So here, you can see the edits we've made so far.
Gonna do another Radial Filter.
It's really about experimentation,
just try everything,
just play with the colors,
pun intended.
Now what I like to do here is use the Brush tool,
pick out the bottom here a little bit.
So if you hit O, it'll actually show you what you picked
and I like to put the Dehaze tool down
and this is actually going to add like a foggy feel to it,
the haze, so that brings the haze into the grass
and the opposite way pulls it away of course.
I like to have the haze hitting the grass
and kind of giving that really feel
that the sun's coming through.
Gonna play with the colors a little bit more here.
Gonna add a little bit of purple here,
with the Brush tool.
Kinda give it that flare look.
And yeah, that's basically it.
You can hit Slash here, to see the before and after.
So yeah, let me know if you like this kind of video,
and be sure to follow me on Instagram, someguy.
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