It’s time to have some fun for the holidays. One of my clients asked for a reflection composite (very trendy!) of apples for his upcoming self promo piece. The concept is “Stand Out’ using apples. I grabbed the individual apples from IStock, put them together, did some shadow painting, re-lit them, then created the background gradation and reflection. I then had this idea that it would be cool to take a bite out of the red apple. So back into istock to find a bite picture, then back into PhotoShop to composite the bite and recast the reflection. That also turned out pretty cool. I was thinking maybe a front and back cover of the brochure in question.

The client emails me back and loves the apple composite so much, that he wants me to add a santa hat to the set so he can use them for this year’s Christmas Cards. So back into istock, I grab a santa hat, isolate the hat and then place it on the apple. The trouble is that the hat is shot under very different lights so, I jump into the layers and duplicate the hat, set it to multiply and tweak the color a bit. This makes the hat’s density curve pop a bit, but it still isn’t right. So I go back to the tablet and do some more shadow painting, I add a small drop shadow to the hat and put a small cast reflection to the apple closest to the hat.

It’s not perfect, but it is fun. I am always amazed at what photoshop can do.

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