How to Change the Background in a Photograph

Building upon what we discussed on Monday, today we will actually Composite an image that one of you chose! First, we start off by picking the best photo from the submissions. It seems like that largest struggle in the submissions was matching the lighting to the photograph we took. Although it is possible to change Light direction in a photograph it is very hard and time consuming. One of the biggest challenges after applying the new Background was making the grass line look realistic. In order to complete that task we create a new custom Brush from existing grass shapes, which is then used to define a Layer Mask.

Building upon what we discussed on Monday, today we will actually Composite an image that one of you chose! First, we start off by picking the best photo from the submissions. It seems like that largest struggle in the submissions was matching the lighting to the photograph we took. Although it is possible to change Light direction in a photograph it is very hard and time consuming. One of the biggest challenges after applying the new Background was making the grass line look realistic. In order to complete that task we create a new custom Brush from existing grass shapes, which is then used to define a Layer Mask.