Adobe Master Class: Advanced Compositing in Adobe Photoshop CC: Bringing the Impossible to Reality with Bret Malley, Second Edition

Chapter 13. Big Store, Big Scenery

Covered in This Chapter

• Shooting and matching backgrounds

• Using the Smart Sharpen filter

• Noise reduction

• Painting vegetation

• Painting clouds and mist with advanced brush settings

• Texturing buildings

With a touch of customization, clouds become mist, plants become anthropomorphized, and you can transform even the most mundane, common space into an entirely new scene and narrative. As part of a series about reversing the relationship between humans and nature, ­Forest Construction visualizes what the landscape might look like if our positions of expansion and progress were reversed. In this project, the forest sprawls to swallow the urban big-box store, greenery erodes cars, and each element progresses ...