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Building A Composite

 

This week Corey shows you how to combine two images into an interesting composite.

Corey Barker

Corey Barker is Executive Producer of PlanetPhotoshop.com and is an Education and Curriculum Developer for the National Association of Photoshop Professionals. Corey has also made numerous appearances on the highly rated podcast, PhotoshopUser TV, and is co-host of Layers TV.

40 Comments

  1. Razgate said on — July 16, 2010 @ 2:14 pm

    Awesome tutorial once again, thanks.
    Time for me to go have some fun with it :D

  2. Mike Jenkins said on — July 16, 2010 @ 3:04 pm

    Great video, but it cuts off right when you’re about to clip the two layer masks together. Is there another part to this somewhere?

  3. akshay said on — July 17, 2010 @ 1:45 am

    Hi Mike , After the clipping part, Just Add a Text of your Choice to the whole design.. and we are done !

    Cheers !

  4. Haryad,rawanduzi said on — July 21, 2010 @ 3:38 pm

    very nice this tutorial thank you …

  5. Haryad,rawanduzi said on — July 21, 2010 @ 3:43 pm

    Very NICE This TUTORIAL thak you ..

  6. Andy Macpherson said on — July 22, 2010 @ 4:27 pm

    this is amazing can’t wait to try it out

  7. Jan said on — July 22, 2010 @ 4:28 pm

    VERY cool!
    and I totally burst out laughing at your announcer voice with “a broken man”. ha!

  8. Suzanne said on — July 22, 2010 @ 8:26 pm

    Great tutorial!! Where do I get the broken glass????

  9. adi said on — July 22, 2010 @ 9:03 pm

    always waiting your next tut, nice work, sir (risin’ hat)

  10. Mike said on — July 25, 2010 @ 6:03 pm

    very good tutorial can’t wait to try it out.
    BTW. Where did you get the broken glass.
    Thanks.

  11. Isaiah said on — July 26, 2010 @ 12:43 pm

    wow! Thanks!

    Regards And God Bless! :)

  12. Cyrus said on — July 26, 2010 @ 12:48 pm

    i love this tutorial… looking forward to more!

  13. Seth said on — July 26, 2010 @ 2:06 pm

    Hey,
    great tutorial.
    How can i have a it in full?

    Respect 2u.

  14. Fatboise said on — July 28, 2010 @ 6:36 pm

    Just Fantastic!

  15. sathish khanna said on — August 2, 2010 @ 1:55 pm

    Great tutotials.

    How to download this whole vedios.

  16. angel said on — August 3, 2010 @ 2:42 pm

    Hi..I love this tutos but I’m not understand perfect English and sometimes is difficult to me understand what keys must be press….would be userfull if you include a tool for display the key press..thank so much and good luck

  17. Jonathan said on — August 5, 2010 @ 5:44 am

    Corey,
    I am inspired over and over again on new by your Tutorials. Not only the contents, but also your entertaining way provide for the fact that I inhale everything literally.

  18. eranga abeywardhana said on — August 7, 2010 @ 10:08 am

    Thank’s Mike.Great tutorials.Always Waiting Your Next Project.God Bless You

  19. eranga abeywardhana said on — August 7, 2010 @ 10:14 am

    Thank’s Mike Always waiting your next Project.God Bless You

  20. 天使的疤痕 said on — August 17, 2010 @ 5:44 am

    做的真的不错~~很喜欢

  21. Charles said on — August 21, 2010 @ 2:36 pm

    Very nice tutorial! Thanks :)

  22. Cristina said on — September 4, 2010 @ 7:50 pm

    You do the best tutorials I have ever seen!!! Thank you very much for all your hard work in sharing your knowledge with us. Cheers!!!!!

  23. Marco said on — September 15, 2010 @ 12:51 pm

    Isn´t that old stuff? Just take a look at the poster of the movie “The Broken”: http://dormitator.files.wordpress.com/2009/06/the-broken.jpg?w=455&h=606

  24. Luis Suarez said on — September 15, 2010 @ 12:55 pm

    Nice effect Corey. Pretty simple to accomplish and it looks perfect.

    thanks. :D

  25. Fayth Rose said on — September 15, 2010 @ 1:07 pm

    I’ve been trying to figure out how they did that for awhile. I’m glad I know now. Thanks! Any chance you can teach textures on skins and such?

  26. César F. said on — September 15, 2010 @ 3:12 pm

    Amazing tutorial!… seems very, very easy!.. Transparency with masks..
    Regards

  27. Rob said on — September 15, 2010 @ 3:42 pm

    Excellent tutorial, lots learnt, must just go try it now :)

    cheers,

  28. Luz Elena said on — September 15, 2010 @ 5:16 pm

    Very very nice !!! Thanks

  29. Marie said on — September 15, 2010 @ 9:50 pm

    When I do the layer mask on the glass, it will not let me erase the background. i am unsure of what i am doing wrong. everything looks the same. the background, all the layers… but when i go to use the brush tool, it does nothing…. help!!!!!

  30. Marie said on — September 15, 2010 @ 10:47 pm

    Forget the last question i figured out that the background color had to be WHITE.

    Where can I find the picture of the GLASS??? Google is no help there…..

  31. Govind said on — September 16, 2010 @ 7:02 am

    Corey,
    Thank you for the amazing tutorial….
    By the way can you tell us how to change the UI color of Photoshop like you did?

  32. MBenjo said on — September 16, 2010 @ 5:24 pm

    Supercool tutorial! And great commentary!

    Check out mine, which could not be made without this awesome tutorial:
    http://mbenjo.deviantart.com/#/d2yutn7

  33. Marie Gilmore said on — September 17, 2010 @ 2:00 am

    WHERE CAN I FIND THE GLASS IMAGE. I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR DAYS FOR A GLASS AND THEY ALL SUCK.. PLEASE HELP.

  34. Corey Student said on — September 17, 2010 @ 11:45 pm

    I can’t say any thing..(No comment)

    it’s just more than what i expected..like a dream. I’ve seen a lot of these work but i can’t understand how they do it and you came and lighten us with this tutorial

    thank you so much sir and god bless you

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  36. Gerrit said on — December 30, 2010 @ 5:43 am

    “A Broken Man”… coming up next! :-D
    Great!

  37. Tony said on — January 22, 2011 @ 3:28 pm

    Corey — you are incredible. Thanks!

  38. Flora said on — February 4, 2011 @ 9:49 am

    Hi, great tutorial, as usually. It’s a pleasure to learn with.
    But I’d like to have a precision, cause i’m french (and also cause I’m quite amateur in PS) and, even if I follow you in your explainations, I some times need more precisions about the actions you made . In this case, I don’t understand which keys you pressed, in the action at about 6:45. Could you write me the combinaison of keys to press and actions to do, please?

    Thank you in advance :)

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  40. Bobby Glazier said on — November 10, 2011 @ 10:27 am

    Really good tutorial, nice and easy for begginers to pick up some of the basic techniques in photoshop. Good job!
    Glaziers High Wycombe

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