10Sweetening the Comp

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You have made your best key, your finest spill suppression, expert color correction and most excellent composite. Now the real work begins – sweetening the comp. Here is where we see how to add all those things, large and small, that make the shot more photorealistic to “sell” the shot. The focus in this chapter is on techniques that will visually integrate the various layers of the comp into a single visual whole. The key to achieving this “visual whole” is subtle blending and layering of the comp elements in a natural way.

Layer integration adds elements to the foreground object ...

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