But in the professional space, people will use whatever they need to get the job done. I regularly get comments from people asking “why didn’t you just use x software” or from people who think its somehow hearsay if any particular application can’t do everything on its own. One other lesson to take away from this, apart from the compositing tips, is that you shouldn’t be afraid to use multiple tools to do a job. After you do a composite, you often do some grading or film grain on the final comp as it just helps tie everything together, and this works with still images too. This is a technique that I often used when working in Visual Effects over the years. Without this, it still looks a little fake, but covering it with a mild film effect and a little grading makes it look more realistic. Finally I sent the image back to Capture One (as this is where it had started) and I applied one of my own styles from my T-NEG collection. I did some additional tweaks back in Photoshop, with a few adjustment layers. The other advantage of this is that the layers are kept non-destructive, and I can go back in at any time ad do some further tweaks. There may well have been a way to do this by some combination of stamped layers, but in my opinion it was just as easy to do it in Photoshop. If you’re wondering why I didn’t just use a mask on the Sky Replacement tool in Luminar, it’s because that would have masked the relighting too, and that was an important part of the image.
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