ABSTRACT

Adobe has aggressively designed Photoshop to accommodate a variety of skill sets such as painting, graphic design, photography, 3D and video. This chapter focuses on a creative workflow for including video and 3D into a scene that was created using photo compositing techniques in Photoshop. It considers the 3D instead of compositing, and provides the final composited image called 'background.jpg' to focus on integrating both the 3D tower and the video. The chapter shows how to build the 3D tower from scratch. It also presents the completed composited image, into which one can build the video content for the final result. In a nutshell, one can build 3D futuristic towers to integrate into a scenic composite that includes several moving waterfalls, where the waterfalls are created from a QuickTime video.