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Make the most of the
Harmonization Filter
Match the look of two photos for perfect
composites with this powerful Neural Filter
Light the scene
No matter how effective the
Harmonisation Filter can be at
matching two images, there’s no
substitute for using a solid lighting
technique at the time of shooting.
If you want two images to look
like they belong together, it helps
enormously if the direction and
quality of the light is similar in both.
Here, both the toys and the figure
were photographed with a hard light
source to the right of the camera,
in order to create strong shadows
that fell to the left. This made it
easier to combine them both.James
Paterson
With over a decade as a
writer and photographer
behind him, James knows
exactly which Photoshop
and Lightroom tools and
techniques matter most.f you want to make a composite from
two or more images, there are two stages
to carry out. First, there’s the task of
cutting out and piecing the images
together. Second, there’s the challenge
of making the images look like they belong together.
The first stage has been made much less arduous in
recent editions of Photoshop, with commands like Select
Subject and Remove Background. Now the second stage
has become easier, too, thanks to the new Harmonization
Filter. It matches the colours, tones and feel of one layer
with another, analysing the content of your image using
artificial intelligence and making changes based on what
it finds. All you need to do is cut out an object or person
and place it on a different background, then run the filter
on the cut-out to harmonise it with the underlying image.
Here, our initial portrait is rather too cool and
contrasting to match the muted backdrop we’ve added
behind our subject, but the Harmonization Filter gives
us much more realistic results...I
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