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Setting the stage

Setting the stage - Photoshop Tutorial

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Setting the stage

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- [Instructor] One of the reasons that I really enjoy using Photoshop is that it enables me to evolve my images into something that can't be created with any other medium. In the next few videos we're going to walk through the creation of this image. Now, before we start assembling the image, I just want to mention that I think to make a composite successful, it has to meet three criteria. It needs to tell a compelling story. So in other words, you have to grab the viewers attention, and get them involved. Hopefully on both an intellectual as well as an emotional level. It needs to have a strong composition just like any other image. But I want to stress that all of the elements in the image should really focus on telling the story. And there really shouldn't be any extraneous objects. It also needs to have excellent technical execution. So, the image doesn't have to look realistic, but it needs to be believable. So…

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