ABSTRACT

At this juncture we hopefully have a technically excellent composite with a great matte and a fine despill, and now it is time to color correct it so the foreground layer visually integrates into the background layer. The two layers of the composite were photographed separately under very different lighting conditions, and when they are simply thrown together in a composite it becomes perfectly obvious that they were photographed separately under different lighting conditions. One of the most important steps in the digital compositing process is to get the two layers to appear as though they are together in the same light space, which is the subject of this chapter.