Compositing is about making complex, visual masterpieces driven by your creative vision. Through mastering compositing, you will deepen your understanding of color, light, and movement — vaulting your photography skills to the next level while bringing more value to your clients and your pocket.

Written from a photographer?s point of view, "Digital Retouching and Compositing: Photographers? Guide" solves every snap-shooter?s real-life problems painlessly. It distills complex topics down to a few pages of explanation and easy steps so users can quickly and dramatically change the way photos look.

01. Rendering Multiple Passes in Maya
In this tutorial Christophe Desse shows how he uses Maya's Render Layers to give him more control over his final render. Using a production-ready scene file, Christophe covers Render Layers, Masks, Ambient Occlusion and settings for Mental Ray. This tutorial also includes all the files necessary for you to follow along and create your own hot-rod render.

In this series of tutorials, we will learn how to animate and composite a futuristic menu interface with footage of an actor.

In Photoshop CS5: Creative Compositing, Chris Orwig demonstrates how to take photographs to the next creative level by combining images in Photoshop. This course covers multiple compositing scenarios, including portraits and architecture photos, from selecting the images, to blending photos with layer masks and blend modes, and resizing and sharpening the results. Chris also covers tips and tricks design to inspire and increase the drama and interest of photographs. Exercise files are included with this course.

Want to learn how to do green screening and video compositing in your own projects? Well, you have come to the right place! Join us as David Bode explains how to get started with green screen and work with the resulting video in Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects.

Learn to create material maps from multi-pass renders, improving render speed and system performance. Render one frame, then apply materials to converted low-res terrain objects, for high quality, fully 3D digital mattes.
Learn to use Vue's normal pass to create unconstrained lighting situations from the original matte render; leaving you free to change lighting at any time, without the need to re-render the original scene. (Technique presented in Cinema4D and xStream, will work will any 3D application supporting normal maps. Will work with any version of Vue that saves a normal pass of the geometry in the scene.)
These techniques allows you to render an entire animation in the time it normally takes to render one frame, by removing all procedural and geometry calculations from the render. This also allows the usage of lower anti-aliasing settings and eliminates any potential terrain flickering during animation.

For many visual effects artists who are just starting out or are moving from After Effects, Shake, Fusion, or another compositing tool, they are learning that Nuke is quickly becoming the feature film compositing industry standard. While there are several online turorials and courses available, there is currently no book on the market for those who need to know all the ins and outs of the software. Until now.

NUKE, short for "New Compositor", began as the in-house compositing and effects application at Digital Domain, where it won an Academy Award for Technical Achievement. NUKE is built primarily for visual effects film work at a variety of element resolutions and color spaces, all within a floating point 2D and 3D environment. This lecture covers the essentials of working with film-based and CGI elements in a professional, extensible and fast compositing pipeline. Utilizing many techniques for speed and efficiency, NUKE is able to provide rich output results and ultimate customization for the user. In this DVD, Rob covers all the major aspects of NUKE and reveals many areas where the casual user would not have known to go at first glance. Rob also provides sensible approaches for how to lay a good foundation for proper compositing in your own projects.

Keying and compositing will be done inside of Adobe After Effects, matchmoving in PFTrack 2011 with the recent node based workflow, texturing in Photoshop, and all 3D processes done in Autodesk Maya using mental ray. By the end of this training, you'll have the knowledge to take live action, green screen footage and composite it into a realistic 3D environment with a re-animated matchmoved camera.

Want to learn how to do green screening and video compositing in your own projects? Well, you have come to the right place! Join us as David Bode explains how to get started with green screen and work with the resulting video in Premier Pro and Adobe After Effects.

In this tutorial we'll be covering the entire pipeline of compositing live action footage into a lunar environment.
Keying and compositing will be done inside of Adobe After Effects, matchmoving in PFTrack 2011 with the recent node based workflow, texturing in Photoshop, and all 3D processes done in Autodesk Maya using mental ray. By the end of this training, you'll have the knowledge to take live action, green screen footage and composite it into a realistic 3D environment with a re-animated matchmoved camera.

In this series of After Effects tutorials, we will go through the process for animating this band poster and composite it into a live action plate.
We'll start out by going through the steps of building up our poster's composition to make it interesting and appealing. We then discuss the timing of our messaging, so that it has plenty of time to be read, while still holding the attention of our viewer. From that point, we move into the compositing phase of our course where we slowly begin to add effects to integrate the poster into our scene. We go over some simple motion tracking and rotoscoping techniques as well as some great tips for color correction.

This series will not only teach you how to get great results through compositing, it will also teach all of the technical details that need to be considered with compositing.
This includes image levels, image colors, color management, handling proper alpha values, green screen keying, and much more.

In this workshop Jeff Foster — video producer, compositor, visual effects artist, and author of "The Green Screen Handbook" — teaches you the advanced tips, tricks, and workflow techniques he’s used over the years to get great video/film composites, even when working with near-impossible footage.