CompositingStock.com is a new stock photo site designed specifically photographers and designers who create composite images in Photoshop. With the help of a collapsible safety cone, CompositingStock.com has solved one of the biggest challenges with compositing: determining how big your subject should be in relation to the background. “Many stock photos just don’t work for compositing because they just aren’t taken at the best angle and there’s no sense of scale.” says Dave Cross, Founder of CompositingStock.com. “With our safety cone system, our backgrounds are shot specifically with compositing in mind.” The site provides free compositing tutorials and the option to download sample images to try out the safety cone compositing system. Photographers can join the site as a Contributing Photographer and start earning commission on the sale of their images, with royalties starting at 40%.

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New Stock Photo Site Uses A Safety Cone To Make Compositing Simpler

Tampa, FL , November 24, 2015. Thanks to a safety cone, CompositingStock.com has solved one of the biggest challenges with compositing: determining how big your subject should be in relation to the background. CompositingStock.com is a brand new stock photography site that is designed specifically for photographers and designers who create composite images. The site includes textures to overlay over photos, photos with depth of field for waist-up compositing, design elements and special photos for full-length compositing.

“One of the most challenging things to do in compositing is realistically placing into a new background a full-length photo of a person” said Dave Cross, Founder of CompositingStock.com. “With our unique reference system, it’s simple to scale the person to match the correct size of the background, and to determine shadows, reflections etc”. The reference system Cross refers to is a collapsible safety cone, and the stock backgrounds come as a 2-layered Photoshop document: one layer with the cone in the photo and one layer without the cone. The photographer takes a photo of their subject containing the same cone, and then it is a simple matter of scaling the cones to be the same size.

Contributing Photographers from around the world photograph backgrounds specifically for the site, using the collapsible safety cone as the reference. “Many stock photos just don’t work for compositing” says Cross “because they just aren’t taken at the best angle and there’s no sense of scale. With our safety cone system, our backgrounds are shot specifically with compositing in mind.” Buyers of the stock images also have the (recommended) option to purchase the same safety cone to take full advantage of the reference system.

Dave Cross, a well-known Photoshop Educator, came up with the concept for CompositingStock.com after years of watching people struggle with finding the right backgrounds for their images, and trying to overcome the challenges of making realistic composites, quickly and easily.

The site provides free compositing tutorials and the option to download sample images to try out the safety cone compositing system. Photographers can join the site as a Contributing Photographer and start earning commission on the sale of their images, with royalties starting at 40%.

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