Things to Consider When Youre Making Composites

There are several considerations when you make a composite.

There’s a feature in Photoshop’s Neural Filters calledHarmonization.

If you need some help with basic compositing, we show youhow to composite multiple images together in Photoshop.

Cover of a sportscar driving down a city street

We’ll use theObject Selectiontool combined with theLassotool (to include the shadow) to get the job done.

You canremove simple objects in Photoshop with just one click.

Next, we simply added a mask to the selection, and the background is removed from the car.

Bad example of a composite

Now, we can drag and drop the sports car into our city scene.

There areseveral ways you could use Photoshop’s Transform toolto edit your photos.

LocateHarmonizationand toggle its switch to activate the feature.

Screenshot of the car photo

UnderReference Image, go toSelect Layerand choose theBackgroundlayer.

If you have multiple images, you’ll see more options.

It will take a moment or two to process the image.

Using Object Select Tool with Lasso Tool

Experiment with the sliders to make your subject match the background.

For this example, we boosted theStrengthto100, increased theBlueslider, and decreased theSaturationandBrightnesssliders.

The slider options will vary for different images and depending on your preferences.

Sports car is masked out

The sports car now looks like it belongs in the city scene.

Next, you’ll have to decide on theOutput.

Since we’ve already created a Smart Object, chooseSmart Filterfrom the dropdown menu and clickOK.

Drap and drop the sports car into other file

Converted to Smart Object

Go to Filter and Neural Filters to access Harmonization

Toggle on Harmonization

Choose the Background layer

Harminzation feature used

Choose Output and click OK

Finishing touches