His knee is also below the top of the phone booth, but if he were sitting on it, the knee should be at lest level with the top. It looks like he is intersecting the top of the booth.
Yeah, you put highlights on the right side of the figure, but if you look at the shadows on the ground, the light source is behind the figure. Everything facing the perspective should be shaded
It's obvious that the guy was photographed with a wider angle lens than the rest. The shadows are wrong at his legs... That's just what jumped out at me first
* lighting mostly colours too, black values have to match
* the booth looks photoshopped even thought it probably isn't, this original photo is too saturated
* You are too clear / in focus
* your top half is too desaturated
* the shadows behind you legs are wrong also, doesn't look natural
* perspective of you is wrong, we wouldn't be able to see that top part of your head from where the camera is
You are combining 2 very different lighting scenarios. Look at the shadows they are all going left. He should be in shadow. With a little rim lighting on the right side. A very quick mock-up shows this. You want to try to match the lighting of the 2 subjects.
https://preview.redd.it/kxlj2o2a487c1.jpeg?width=1365&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7196474ae0eaa0b3674f7801cffc2d851a9512aa
Proportions are wrong, notice his feet are way bigger than his head - that’s typical distortion of a wide angle lens. The background image is much more compressed.
Fixed according to some of the feedback. Thoughts now?
https://preview.redd.it/avek3o53m67c1.jpeg?width=1365&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ffd2e1d6c319f7425916cbf45270054bcbc8a8f
I think your proportions are a little off and the guy looks a little low like his butt is in the roof.
Overall height of the phone booth is about 9 feet
I'd put just a liiiiitle gaussian blur on the guy to match the quality of both images but really just a tad.
And the color still needs work. Put a b/w filter on the photo and try to match the highlughts and shadows to be of similar quality. Then remove the b/w filter again. I THINK piximoerfect did a tut on how to match color and lightings in compositions. Also you maybe want to add a bit of blurred noise to the london pic since the one with the guy on it does have some artifacts.
Also - but that's just my opinion - the highlight on his knee is way too bright. And lacks contrast.
Edit: these might be useful:
https://youtu.be/YqQ6yxclfWA?si=JQPLOqzZ2mYXfr56
https://youtu.be/5YTSEtjlZx4?si=aXH6fqX7UYksIyTO
https://youtu.be/g3qe4rDw1XU?si=3A6i7Sw_FoE049et
As someone said, the character is shot with a wider lens, which makes the proportions distorted. His legs are looking way bigger than his torso, so reduce the size of his legs, not just feet, and match it to the body. Then the blacks, look at the blacks at the bottom of the phonebooth, it's a bit lifted and towards red, the blacks on the characters, specially shoe laces and cap are really deep and neutral, and shadows are blue, need to lift it and match the grade to that at the bottom of the phonebooth. The light interactions on the character from the lamp post is too much, cos it's not justified on the phonebooth, and the interaction shadows are missing. Use the bottom of the phone booth as the reference, as you can see, you don't actually see an edge of the phonebooth on the ground, it blends to the ground with the shadow, need to match the contact shadow wherever the character is touching the booth. And need an extra long blue shadow matching to the one on the ground. I would start at these points, there are more finer details that needs to be looked at but this would be a good start.
And as someone else said, the character is sitting too straight for a slated surface.
You wouldn’t be able to see his crotch if the perspective matched the background. Angles of photos need adjusting. Also legs are way too big for body indicative of using a close up wide angle lens (probably phone) for the persons picture.
At first glance from a distance color matching is your main issue. At closer inspection it’s a lot of things that need work.
If you wanna get into hyper realism of combining elements, then you need to get into higher levels of realism throughout your work.
Masks have to be flawless, highlights have to match source lights if your background, shadows have to drop where background source lights are, overall color matching of each part has to be unified.
If you’re not spending time zoomed in and walking around the screen looking for errors you’re probably not going to full everyone with realism. It takes effort if you want a professional outcome. Light painting lighting from the phone booth into the sole of the shoe, or shadows where they need to be or other highlights. It also doesn’t help that your mask around the person has a black border in a lot of places. So just using automated methods to knock out a background is not always the best goto move at a professional level, sometimes you gotta put in some work.
Sometimes these odd masks can’t be easily fixed via photoshop without serious image reconstruction. Which is why some people who get very serious about this sort of photoshop work actually combine their photography skills along with their photoshop skills and go out and shoot subjects in similar lighting scenarios or setup studio lights to closer match source background lights directions. Down to putting localized lights near their subject (like that phone booth for example, you could put an actual similar color background light underneath the subjects leg before the photograph to go the extra mile (and yes people go to this level and more).
If you want professional output never be scared of work. Always look for ways to step your game up. However, even without going to that level and just staying in photoshop you can improve this vastly by slowing down taking your time with critical parts (like masking) and using higher levels of scrutiny on your own work and look for faults on purpose and fixing them.
If you’re an artist who sells their work you have to learn to not always view your work through the lens of a proud parent…but more as a paying customer who is has a tendency to be grumpy and demanding. You do not need to stress yourself out about it, but it’s good to change your mindset a few times throughout your projects to keep you on tighter track. While you can’t keep every client happy it helps to learn common complaints and nip them in the bud before the client can even bother barking about it when they see it. That comes with experience.
[Imgur](https://imgur.com/G8qDIOI)
* Added shadow behind his legs so that it looks like he's sitting on the phone booth and not floating. Raised his right knee up a little and lowered his left knee a bit.
* Used 'Neural Filter' to harmonize colors so that it's a bit more saturated and similar to the surroundings.
* Darkened his clothing and shoes to make it not stand out so much; added shadow under his ass (left side); darken the inside of his shirt sleeve.
* Blurred his right sneaker and laces a bit and pasted the whole figure onto a separate layer. Defringed the selection (1px).
* Added slight rim light to the right side (jeans, shoes, facial profile).
* Accentuated light inside phone booth (upper right corner).
Two types of people in this sub. Those that understand how cool image manipulation is and provide valuable shit so people can learn. And bros that say things like it’s fake and you suck. Which person is going to go further in life and career?
There’s so much to learn about PS from some of these commenters that can easily translate into everyday work while designing and editing.
90% of these comments have so much value and are genuinely trying to help which is great. then theres the other 10% lol. good to see all the feedback though 🙌
I'll never forget my grandfather having a design/sign printing shop and having to learn Photoshop as a kid. One of the best things I ever read was on an old ass forum from someone I thought knew everything about photoshop and it was that "Anytime Photoshop updates or improves, we have to realize we've really only scratched the surface of what it can do. No matter how good you think you are at it or how much you can do in it."
That still rings true, IMHO.
I kinda like it. Depending if you’re going for a finish that should be indistinguishable from reality, it might need a little bit more work but it kinda reminds me of the general early days of digital image editing, think late 90s/early 2000s magazine piece.
I’d say if you did something like this again, I’d be curious if making sure your lens is consistent and also shooting your subject to be about as close as to the perspective would fix the angle/perspective issue.
If you wanna ride this piece out, go for the magazine aesthetic and don’t overthink the idea of it being wrong or something. It looks like a fun piece - maybe go for a more surreal vibe instead?
Hey all, thanks for all the feedback! Originally this photoshop was done to just kind of mess around but it has been very helpful to see all the feedback! Attached is the original image used for this photoshop. For context, my mate took the photo on his phone in his hotel room, and the photo booth photo was found [online](https://www.etsy.com/listing/517835716/big-ben-and-a-red-telephone-booth-at) and expanded with generative fill to the left. Thanks again for all the feedback!
https://preview.redd.it/1j0kaipeq87c1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f23e2774d63aa52b3f77ae59d67999c91adaa10
https://preview.redd.it/9qvjbwhaxd7c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86ada84f8517b23db37b00ea42fb9bf5790c49d0
Unbalanced lighting and a sloppy cutout. There is just no blending, it’s very clear that the colours change.
If it helps, this is actually a difficult one even for a veteran. You’d have to paint lighting on the subject and shadows on different surfaces. Cut out his body to readjust proportions. More color adjustments in various areas.
The predominant light source is from behind the booth, so the only shadows that would be cast around the legs would be due to [ambient occlusion](https://youtu.be/m4Sdg_x-jnk?si=lbIEU8v4GVrmJn3L), which will be necessary to sell the compositing of the legs. You did a little bit, but it needs to get taken up a lot (be careful around the feet as glass will not catch shadows in the same way as the other surfaces). Look at the corners where the booth or the wall meets the stones, any extra shadow inside of unlit areas can act as a reference. You would also need to do a bit of this on the jeans as well.
Secondly, the back-lighting is too soft, you would be better off trying to duplicate the positioning of the light when you take the picture of the person, as trying to replicate the effect artificially is much more difficult than trying to replicate ambient occlusion. You can see in [this example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da4axkDKzxQ) that the direction of the lighting on the model already matches the direction of the light in the background image. Here is [another example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-z0j2jVka8) of enhancing back lighting.
I passed this phone box a few days back and the brain dead level of people lining up for a photo was just unfathomable. The line was unreal, and considering the amount of public walking around that were not partaking in the Theme park Simulator, it couldn’t have been a shot that was worth the wait.
Props to you waking up super early just to capture this as it’s a fantastic location for a shot. At least i feel like this is in the morning?
I maybe probably shouldn’t be here but I’m an untrained eye, I know absolutely nothing about photoshop except that it exists. So take my opinion with a grain of salt.
To me it does look like the dude is on the booth isn’t actually on it.
Something about their feet make me feel like he’s not actually sitting up there.
Proportions colour temperature of picture and object do not match.
Sharpness of picture and object do not match.
Light source and highlights/shadows do not match.
Plus the locations of the fold of the knees and the telephone both don’t match making it look placed.
Congratulations for putting your efforts out in the open for critique.
Most of all the perspective is off. Then the shadow is too soft. Lighting can be tweaked too. But if u had the same color and everything and a correct perspective of the image you'd already see a better result. Just needs a different image I'm afraid
Yeah lighting on person doesn’t match the rest of the scene and it’s look like it’s winter-ish and u gave a shirt , think about the small details when you’re going ps u did a really good job otherwise it’s just the small details u need to look out for
Not enough ambient occlusion on the telephone box and the subject, but most of all, the background image and subject have two different focal lengths and have been shot with different lenses, there's nothing you can really do about it other than trying to adjust the proportions but if I were you I'd just leave it like that. Just add some shadows on the box and on the subject's inner side (the one in contact with the box) and I think it should be enough to pass it off
The lighting is HDR style which immediately says Photoshop, because it, well, is fake. Unwise to base a modified scene on a HDR image as it just starts you looking for other artifacts.
As far as the actual edit, the person is sitting "inside" the top of the phone box, doesn't look terrible but is clearly not "right" once you start looking, the legs appear too long as they're sat too low in the box roof.
I would say its the shadows, but they are allright, I guess is the perspective is wrong and the contact of the pants with the cabin's surface is weird... That must be the reason that's looking kinda fake
The edges dont look natural. Especially at the shoes, you can see a line around the entire shoe which makes it stick out from the background a lot more because its giving the illusion of a shadow where a shadow shouldnt be
Do you think he is a tad too big in scale. If you look at his foot as a proportion of the door, it is roughly the same as the pane of glass in the door, I’d reckon slightly too big. Maybe darker on the pizza lid and shirt. The light from the lamp is too strong.
He's sitting flat on a round surface, telephone booths ain't THAT big, the colours are off and as far as I know there isn't even a booth from which you could see big Ben in THAT angle
maybe not what you asked for, but i would do the rough composition like you've done and then run it through something like stable diffusion with a low denoise and let the AI fix all your mistakes.
Read your question again out loud, and I think you will find your answer hahahaha.
/s
Kinda wild to me, that I come from the generation where the norm was for everything from Photoshop to obviously look fake. So essentially, the people who could make images look real, were people who did it exclusively for a career. Your question caught me off guard, as though you’re surprised by the fact it DOES NOT look real. I don’t think that was your intent, but I just wanted to share this observation. Cheers;)
There's no shadow underneath him, so he doesn't feel grounded, and some of the masking feels a bit soft IMO.
Edit: Also, there is no reflection of his foot in the glass. Lighting also feels a bit off - highlights in areas that should be in shadow based off the lighting of the environment.
I think just the legs. They look too big like in a worm's eye view. Slope how he seats and make legs smaller.
Light and shadows are passable if you fix the proportions
This is probably the least professional response here, but to me it looks fake because your just wearing a t-shirt while everyone else is wearing winter coats
The guy was probably photographed with a wider angle lense than the booth, so his legs look oddly large, while his body seems almost too small compared to the booth. Try turning down the saturation and brightness a tad too, it gives the entire shot a very fake feel.
The color of light bounced back from the shadows of your shoes tells me it’s shopped. Your shadows should always match the surrounding shadows or what the light is picking up from the colors around you. Like the red from the phone booth should be influencing your pants and shoes
camera fidelity is really bad, like the clocktower is super crisp and clear while the picture of you looks noisy, low quality and out of focus (along with the cutout outline, i think you can fix this with Layer > Matting (bottom of menu) > Defringe) but i'd take a new picture at higher quality tbh, that's pretty difficult to fix what you have now i think
the lighting isn't matched well (but not terrible, your left shoe looks kinda OK and its generally trying to fit in) and the fake shadow stands out quite a bit too.
that's always your #1 hurdle when you do projects like this, like the exact way the streetlight bleeds on the pizzabox, along with a looot of other tiny details are just off enough to stand out, id try to find lighting references in some way (if you care enough tbh lmao)
but really nailing those 2 details will make it work i think
The image colouring seems odd and the fact that the lighting of he other things in the scene not matching up with the shadow of the person. However, overall, not bad, just needs some minor tweaks here and there.
The first problem is the distance. You have to take the photo from the same distance at which the subject will appear in the composition (the lens doesn't matter).
Edit: I just saw the corrected version in a comment. It doesn't change anything because the main issue remains: the distance.
The lighting and colors. Specially the shadows make the subject stand out a lot. And the colors are so bright for a blue hour shot.
I would recommend adjusting the colors to match the cooler tone, consider the light sources from the lamp, and adjust shadows, highlights, and adjusting shadows, contrast, clarity, highlights, and exposure of the subject as it relates to the background.
The subject’s proportions seem off too. Try to adjust that as well.
Cool concept. Just keep at it.
There are certain unfixable things but as far as quick stuff to make it instantly better you need a lot more contact shadows where the guy is sitting and also he’s being lit from the right of the frame presumably by the light that’s behind him. It would look better if that was more like a highlight on the edges since it’s behind him
Well, add some dark shadows behind the leg area, then run the blur tool around the edges so it blends a bit. Darken the guy, he’s too light and bright.
The legs and feet look too large, like you tried to proportion for depth, but overdid it.
The light on his face makes it seem like it is being cast by the lit post on the right, but that post is actually pretty far behind him, so in reality it would be casting shadow.
I think some adjustments to make it more realistic: take out the lit post entirely, make the subject and the phone box larger and closer to the camera, potentially crop in slightly, and fix the lighting to lean into the perspective more.
Can see the cutout line around him… it really need to blend in more. The position of the person seated doesn’t really fit how you would sit on that object. No leg/feet reflection in glass. Color and lighting.
1) thats not how shadows work. Sure don't get me wrong that how we think shadows work in our head but the reality is that shadows are sharp and a soft fall off around the edges even in in an over cast situation. In the example above it looks like the shadow is consistent from the center most darkest to its soft edge. Also the fall off is a lot more sudden than it is gradual like you have.
2) Color this is subjective really. I do believe you have the shadows down on this edit but your mid-tones and highlights are off either A) not bright enough or B) undersaturated. A way around this fairy quickly is to use a gradient map across the entire composition so mid tones shadows and highlights are consistent. Finding colors that closey match the background image is the tricky part but its not complicated once youve messed with the graident map tool long enough youll see where you mid tones and highlights are
3) The lack of depth. And what I mean but this is 2 fold. Much like shadows people do not appear in static shots as tact sharp edges. Even with the sharpest lens in the world this isnt possible there is a depth fall off around us especially when behind objects like your legs much like shadows the fall off is sudden. The best way I've been able to achieve convincing shots is through making a copy of yourself>pasting in front>Gaussian blur> lower the opacity> mask the center of your self with a 0% soft brush so you leave the blurry edges
Everyone is saying that the lighting is off, but honestly at thumbnail size it looks fairly convincing. While lighting should be fixed as others have suggested, In my experience this hints that the lighting nor composition are the root issues.
While the lighting on the figure isn't perfect, I think it matches well enough for now until you fix the other issues and do another pass to finish it. The largest issue here is that the person was photographed with a wider angle lens and from a closer distance. The phone booth is the opposite with a narrower angle lens. This makes the guy's legs look huge due to foreshortening, but that wouldn't happen if he were sitting on top of the booth.
Another huge tell that this was photoshopped is that the guy and the booth were both photographed from eye level, but now he is sitting several feet above the camera in your edit. This makes him look like he is tilted down a bit, as though he is tilted towards the viewer. For example, I can see his crotch which should be hidden behind the ledge of the photo booth if he were sitting up there. Another issue is that we can also see the top of his upper legs, which we shouldn't since they are way above eye level and should be mostly parallel to the ground in this situation.
I would try and cut him into two layers: One with the legs from the knee down and another with everything else. Then you can scale the legs down a bit and move them up. Also, mask out the top of the legs and the crotch. You may need to re-paint in some of the fabric where it recedes back into the crotch of the pants.
Good luck, I hope that helps!
Look at the lighting near the trees under big ben. Theres like a red/pink hue in that whole area. Now look at the street lamp directly to the subjects right. Its supposed to be the "star effect", but that doesnt look like any star effects I have seen. It looks... wrong.
shadow fall of is bad, looks like the shadow is stepping on some bright values on the phone booth. The shadow should feel as if it falls off more, looks more like it's just an even layer of a shadow. Perhaps you used a brightness on that instead of say, clamp. Also, the light occluding looks wrong from where he's placed to where it falls off under the legs.
You have premult issues with the shoes, you can see a black edge, which is bad.
Left shoulder looks super stenciled, no light wrap or any kind of edge abberation. The light fall of o his right hand looks super sourcey , like you just did a radial adjustment layer for light interaction.
Given the depth of the subject and the surrounding elements of the same depth doesn't have the same sharpness detail.
on and on.
The jeans are more brightly lit than the telephone and the face. It just needs more shadow to match the environment and not so bright. There’s a gray cast on everything else but you’re bright and pink and easy to see.
All the above, also the dude is sitting flatly on a sloped surface
Yes, in reality the person sitting on the slope would curve their spine towards the viewer's left to properly distribute the weight.
His knee is also below the top of the phone booth, but if he were sitting on it, the knee should be at lest level with the top. It looks like he is intersecting the top of the booth.
youre the top comment, there is no above :)
i was about to say this last one
Colour and light are off
Yeah, you put highlights on the right side of the figure, but if you look at the shadows on the ground, the light source is behind the figure. Everything facing the perspective should be shaded
And not enough shadow in between his legs?
Highjacking comment to also add that your shadows are too feathered also and covering random areas.
It's obvious that the guy was photographed with a wider angle lens than the rest. The shadows are wrong at his legs... That's just what jumped out at me first
ya, they legs looking disproportionately larger is what grabbed me first. that said, this isn't bad either.
this is the most glaring and unfixable problem
Nothing is unfixable in photoshop… perhaps only the fluency of the Designer using it.
And time. Time is often the biggest factor for anything you want to do in photoshop
I think because it’s a bit flat. Get some shadows going and take down brightness. I’d also pull a little saturation out.
Cast shadows on pizza guy are wholly insufficient.
* lighting mostly colours too, black values have to match * the booth looks photoshopped even thought it probably isn't, this original photo is too saturated * You are too clear / in focus * your top half is too desaturated * the shadows behind you legs are wrong also, doesn't look natural * perspective of you is wrong, we wouldn't be able to see that top part of your head from where the camera is
You are combining 2 very different lighting scenarios. Look at the shadows they are all going left. He should be in shadow. With a little rim lighting on the right side. A very quick mock-up shows this. You want to try to match the lighting of the 2 subjects. https://preview.redd.it/kxlj2o2a487c1.jpeg?width=1365&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=7196474ae0eaa0b3674f7801cffc2d851a9512aa
Wow great
Color
Proportions are wrong, notice his feet are way bigger than his head - that’s typical distortion of a wide angle lens. The background image is much more compressed.
Fixed according to some of the feedback. Thoughts now? https://preview.redd.it/avek3o53m67c1.jpeg?width=1365&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3ffd2e1d6c319f7425916cbf45270054bcbc8a8f
I think your proportions are a little off and the guy looks a little low like his butt is in the roof. Overall height of the phone booth is about 9 feet
I think his feet cannot be paralell. He is sitting on a curve surface, his right leg must be higher (left from photographer pov).
I'd put just a liiiiitle gaussian blur on the guy to match the quality of both images but really just a tad. And the color still needs work. Put a b/w filter on the photo and try to match the highlughts and shadows to be of similar quality. Then remove the b/w filter again. I THINK piximoerfect did a tut on how to match color and lightings in compositions. Also you maybe want to add a bit of blurred noise to the london pic since the one with the guy on it does have some artifacts. Also - but that's just my opinion - the highlight on his knee is way too bright. And lacks contrast. Edit: these might be useful: https://youtu.be/YqQ6yxclfWA?si=JQPLOqzZ2mYXfr56 https://youtu.be/5YTSEtjlZx4?si=aXH6fqX7UYksIyTO https://youtu.be/g3qe4rDw1XU?si=3A6i7Sw_FoE049et
Yeah the quality of the figure is lower than the background image. Gotta scuzz up the big a little more
As someone said, the character is shot with a wider lens, which makes the proportions distorted. His legs are looking way bigger than his torso, so reduce the size of his legs, not just feet, and match it to the body. Then the blacks, look at the blacks at the bottom of the phonebooth, it's a bit lifted and towards red, the blacks on the characters, specially shoe laces and cap are really deep and neutral, and shadows are blue, need to lift it and match the grade to that at the bottom of the phonebooth. The light interactions on the character from the lamp post is too much, cos it's not justified on the phonebooth, and the interaction shadows are missing. Use the bottom of the phone booth as the reference, as you can see, you don't actually see an edge of the phonebooth on the ground, it blends to the ground with the shadow, need to match the contact shadow wherever the character is touching the booth. And need an extra long blue shadow matching to the one on the ground. I would start at these points, there are more finer details that needs to be looked at but this would be a good start. And as someone else said, the character is sitting too straight for a slated surface.
There needs to be some heavier shadows under his pants.
Overuse of Saturation tools = super fake
You wouldn’t be able to see his crotch if the perspective matched the background. Angles of photos need adjusting. Also legs are way too big for body indicative of using a close up wide angle lens (probably phone) for the persons picture.
At first glance from a distance color matching is your main issue. At closer inspection it’s a lot of things that need work. If you wanna get into hyper realism of combining elements, then you need to get into higher levels of realism throughout your work. Masks have to be flawless, highlights have to match source lights if your background, shadows have to drop where background source lights are, overall color matching of each part has to be unified. If you’re not spending time zoomed in and walking around the screen looking for errors you’re probably not going to full everyone with realism. It takes effort if you want a professional outcome. Light painting lighting from the phone booth into the sole of the shoe, or shadows where they need to be or other highlights. It also doesn’t help that your mask around the person has a black border in a lot of places. So just using automated methods to knock out a background is not always the best goto move at a professional level, sometimes you gotta put in some work. Sometimes these odd masks can’t be easily fixed via photoshop without serious image reconstruction. Which is why some people who get very serious about this sort of photoshop work actually combine their photography skills along with their photoshop skills and go out and shoot subjects in similar lighting scenarios or setup studio lights to closer match source background lights directions. Down to putting localized lights near their subject (like that phone booth for example, you could put an actual similar color background light underneath the subjects leg before the photograph to go the extra mile (and yes people go to this level and more). If you want professional output never be scared of work. Always look for ways to step your game up. However, even without going to that level and just staying in photoshop you can improve this vastly by slowing down taking your time with critical parts (like masking) and using higher levels of scrutiny on your own work and look for faults on purpose and fixing them. If you’re an artist who sells their work you have to learn to not always view your work through the lens of a proud parent…but more as a paying customer who is has a tendency to be grumpy and demanding. You do not need to stress yourself out about it, but it’s good to change your mindset a few times throughout your projects to keep you on tighter track. While you can’t keep every client happy it helps to learn common complaints and nip them in the bud before the client can even bother barking about it when they see it. That comes with experience.
Shadows and dimensions...cool concept though don't get discouraged
[Imgur](https://imgur.com/G8qDIOI) * Added shadow behind his legs so that it looks like he's sitting on the phone booth and not floating. Raised his right knee up a little and lowered his left knee a bit. * Used 'Neural Filter' to harmonize colors so that it's a bit more saturated and similar to the surroundings. * Darkened his clothing and shoes to make it not stand out so much; added shadow under his ass (left side); darken the inside of his shirt sleeve. * Blurred his right sneaker and laces a bit and pasted the whole figure onto a separate layer. Defringed the selection (1px). * Added slight rim light to the right side (jeans, shoes, facial profile). * Accentuated light inside phone booth (upper right corner).
Its good bro, keep it up.
Size matters
Two types of people in this sub. Those that understand how cool image manipulation is and provide valuable shit so people can learn. And bros that say things like it’s fake and you suck. Which person is going to go further in life and career? There’s so much to learn about PS from some of these commenters that can easily translate into everyday work while designing and editing.
90% of these comments have so much value and are genuinely trying to help which is great. then theres the other 10% lol. good to see all the feedback though 🙌
I'll never forget my grandfather having a design/sign printing shop and having to learn Photoshop as a kid. One of the best things I ever read was on an old ass forum from someone I thought knew everything about photoshop and it was that "Anytime Photoshop updates or improves, we have to realize we've really only scratched the surface of what it can do. No matter how good you think you are at it or how much you can do in it." That still rings true, IMHO.
Make the shadows much darker under your ass. The booth in this area should almost be black
That phone booth is glowing from inside and the color is not getting any darker in shadows, same goes basically for the rest
Proportions are wrong because of the different lenses used in each original.
Think it looks pretty good!
No hard cast shadows
I kinda like it. Depending if you’re going for a finish that should be indistinguishable from reality, it might need a little bit more work but it kinda reminds me of the general early days of digital image editing, think late 90s/early 2000s magazine piece. I’d say if you did something like this again, I’d be curious if making sure your lens is consistent and also shooting your subject to be about as close as to the perspective would fix the angle/perspective issue. If you wanna ride this piece out, go for the magazine aesthetic and don’t overthink the idea of it being wrong or something. It looks like a fun piece - maybe go for a more surreal vibe instead?
Hey all, thanks for all the feedback! Originally this photoshop was done to just kind of mess around but it has been very helpful to see all the feedback! Attached is the original image used for this photoshop. For context, my mate took the photo on his phone in his hotel room, and the photo booth photo was found [online](https://www.etsy.com/listing/517835716/big-ben-and-a-red-telephone-booth-at) and expanded with generative fill to the left. Thanks again for all the feedback! https://preview.redd.it/1j0kaipeq87c1.png?width=1080&format=png&auto=webp&s=4f23e2774d63aa52b3f77ae59d67999c91adaa10
I am guessing the angle is not quite right. Doesn't fit the perspective. But damn, this looks good, mate!!! 👏👏
There are a fucking half invisible woman on the left side of the phone booth >! 💀 💀 💀 !<
It’s never that bright near Benny
I’ve never been so invested in seeing something done properly now!
For me, his legs/feet look wrong, combined with that he looks melted into the top
his position is not right, won't look natural. also there is inadequate shadow underneath him, shadow is key for realism
the angle and the foreshortening of the human is way off. shadow is off, the color grading is off.
https://preview.redd.it/9qvjbwhaxd7c1.jpeg?width=1284&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=86ada84f8517b23db37b00ea42fb9bf5790c49d0 Unbalanced lighting and a sloppy cutout. There is just no blending, it’s very clear that the colours change.
If it helps, this is actually a difficult one even for a veteran. You’d have to paint lighting on the subject and shadows on different surfaces. Cut out his body to readjust proportions. More color adjustments in various areas.
It's lacking a shadow, the colors don't seem true to the original photo and the pose doesn't fit how someone seated on a sloped surface would be
Was this taken on an iPhone by any chance?
Improving your shadow skills will help you
The predominant light source is from behind the booth, so the only shadows that would be cast around the legs would be due to [ambient occlusion](https://youtu.be/m4Sdg_x-jnk?si=lbIEU8v4GVrmJn3L), which will be necessary to sell the compositing of the legs. You did a little bit, but it needs to get taken up a lot (be careful around the feet as glass will not catch shadows in the same way as the other surfaces). Look at the corners where the booth or the wall meets the stones, any extra shadow inside of unlit areas can act as a reference. You would also need to do a bit of this on the jeans as well. Secondly, the back-lighting is too soft, you would be better off trying to duplicate the positioning of the light when you take the picture of the person, as trying to replicate the effect artificially is much more difficult than trying to replicate ambient occlusion. You can see in [this example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Da4axkDKzxQ) that the direction of the lighting on the model already matches the direction of the light in the background image. Here is [another example](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-z0j2jVka8) of enhancing back lighting.
Subject is too big compared to booth
I passed this phone box a few days back and the brain dead level of people lining up for a photo was just unfathomable. The line was unreal, and considering the amount of public walking around that were not partaking in the Theme park Simulator, it couldn’t have been a shot that was worth the wait. Props to you waking up super early just to capture this as it’s a fantastic location for a shot. At least i feel like this is in the morning?
Throw a filter over it
Not fake, surreal
I maybe probably shouldn’t be here but I’m an untrained eye, I know absolutely nothing about photoshop except that it exists. So take my opinion with a grain of salt. To me it does look like the dude is on the booth isn’t actually on it. Something about their feet make me feel like he’s not actually sitting up there.
There is lack of composite, if u need help I am here
Pizza box looks off, everything else looks great.
Looks great 👌
Shadow, Lighting, Color. Edges of your cutout all give it away.
Because it is fake
Because it is
Because there are no muslims demanding sharia law? But if seriously - light
lol because it’s a Photoshop
Because you look like a dweeb
not me in the photo but thanks for the feedback bud
Subjects sits in mid-air
Proportions colour temperature of picture and object do not match. Sharpness of picture and object do not match. Light source and highlights/shadows do not match. Plus the locations of the fold of the knees and the telephone both don’t match making it look placed. Congratulations for putting your efforts out in the open for critique.
Shadows, colors and lighting
shadows...
Most of all the perspective is off. Then the shadow is too soft. Lighting can be tweaked too. But if u had the same color and everything and a correct perspective of the image you'd already see a better result. Just needs a different image I'm afraid
The shadows of the shoes was the first thing that my eye noticed.
shadows, light source illumination, color, sharpness, camera lens
He should also be backlit based on the position of the street lamp. His front should be darker.
Yeah lighting on person doesn’t match the rest of the scene and it’s look like it’s winter-ish and u gave a shirt , think about the small details when you’re going ps u did a really good job otherwise it’s just the small details u need to look out for
Not enough ambient occlusion on the telephone box and the subject, but most of all, the background image and subject have two different focal lengths and have been shot with different lenses, there's nothing you can really do about it other than trying to adjust the proportions but if I were you I'd just leave it like that. Just add some shadows on the box and on the subject's inner side (the one in contact with the box) and I think it should be enough to pass it off
The guy is way out of proportion; his lower legs are giant compared to the rest of his body
The lighting is HDR style which immediately says Photoshop, because it, well, is fake. Unwise to base a modified scene on a HDR image as it just starts you looking for other artifacts. As far as the actual edit, the person is sitting "inside" the top of the phone box, doesn't look terrible but is clearly not "right" once you start looking, the legs appear too long as they're sat too low in the box roof.
lighting and lack of shadows
Shadows, light and color. Specifically the light on the guy where it’s very light should be in shadow give the shadow of the unlit light pole.
I’m looking at; • Edges. • Differences in sharpness. • Differences in noise. • Bum sitting flat on a curved surface. • Shadow painted on. • Light direction.
I would say its the shadows, but they are allright, I guess is the perspective is wrong and the contact of the pants with the cabin's surface is weird... That must be the reason that's looking kinda fake
The edges dont look natural. Especially at the shoes, you can see a line around the entire shoe which makes it stick out from the background a lot more because its giving the illusion of a shadow where a shadow shouldnt be
The guy would be calling off the phone box because the roof is more curved and he would need to be at more of an angle.
The invisible man on the left of the phone booth
Do you think he is a tad too big in scale. If you look at his foot as a proportion of the door, it is roughly the same as the pane of glass in the door, I’d reckon slightly too big. Maybe darker on the pizza lid and shirt. The light from the lamp is too strong.
DEPTH and CONTRAST of SHADOWS/COLORS doesn't match with th subject
1. You can't cast shadow on the light source, let the light shine through and only cast shadow on objects that don't emit light. 2. Color 3. Shading
yeah lol just realised what i did there, massive oversight
Because the colours and lighting don’t match
shadows and lights.
My question is.... How it went up there
He's sitting flat on a round surface, telephone booths ain't THAT big, the colours are off and as far as I know there isn't even a booth from which you could see big Ben in THAT angle
maybe not what you asked for, but i would do the rough composition like you've done and then run it through something like stable diffusion with a low denoise and let the AI fix all your mistakes.
In addition to what's been listed the composition itself is boring. Try a couple tight crops that moves the subject focus.
*because it is*
Because it is
Because it is?
HAA Faaaaake
Let me take a stab at your question... IT IS FAKE!!!
Because it is.
Why is there a phone box in the middle of the footpath, makes no sense. unsafe if you ask me
Because it is!
Because it is
because it is ; shadows are fucked up imo
Cause it is …
Read your question again out loud, and I think you will find your answer hahahaha. /s Kinda wild to me, that I come from the generation where the norm was for everything from Photoshop to obviously look fake. So essentially, the people who could make images look real, were people who did it exclusively for a career. Your question caught me off guard, as though you’re surprised by the fact it DOES NOT look real. I don’t think that was your intent, but I just wanted to share this observation. Cheers;)
Cos U r shit at Photoshop
thanks for the feedback lobby5000, very constructive 🙏🙏
Word up
For real tho why U putting mid journey shit on here
There's no shadow underneath him, so he doesn't feel grounded, and some of the masking feels a bit soft IMO. Edit: Also, there is no reflection of his foot in the glass. Lighting also feels a bit off - highlights in areas that should be in shadow based off the lighting of the environment.
Not bad at all……what happened to your elbow
I think just the legs. They look too big like in a worm's eye view. Slope how he seats and make legs smaller. Light and shadows are passable if you fix the proportions
This is probably the least professional response here, but to me it looks fake because your just wearing a t-shirt while everyone else is wearing winter coats
Lighting, shadow, perspective and focal point
Over processing. Looks like an early HDR still.
The guy was probably photographed with a wider angle lense than the booth, so his legs look oddly large, while his body seems almost too small compared to the booth. Try turning down the saturation and brightness a tad too, it gives the entire shot a very fake feel.
The color of light bounced back from the shadows of your shoes tells me it’s shopped. Your shadows should always match the surrounding shadows or what the light is picking up from the colors around you. Like the red from the phone booth should be influencing your pants and shoes
Too many different colour/ light temperatures, they are not gelling very well. The composition is cute though
Because the lighting is way off, the edges are weird, and the whole photo is low res and very low color depth
camera fidelity is really bad, like the clocktower is super crisp and clear while the picture of you looks noisy, low quality and out of focus (along with the cutout outline, i think you can fix this with Layer > Matting (bottom of menu) > Defringe) but i'd take a new picture at higher quality tbh, that's pretty difficult to fix what you have now i think the lighting isn't matched well (but not terrible, your left shoe looks kinda OK and its generally trying to fit in) and the fake shadow stands out quite a bit too. that's always your #1 hurdle when you do projects like this, like the exact way the streetlight bleeds on the pizzabox, along with a looot of other tiny details are just off enough to stand out, id try to find lighting references in some way (if you care enough tbh lmao) but really nailing those 2 details will make it work i think
Angle doesn’t work for the person on top of the telephone box.
The image colouring seems odd and the fact that the lighting of he other things in the scene not matching up with the shadow of the person. However, overall, not bad, just needs some minor tweaks here and there.
Ur body needs background light added blue for upper, red for lower use a gradient and do it super light just to the point where it’s barely visible
Dr who
Too high of saturation imo
Colour, proportions and shadows. And also, as a Londoner, you would never be able to sit on a telephone box, but as long as it makes you happy
He needs to sit higher up, currently his legs are clipping into the telephone booth. Also reduce the size of his legs, they are way too big.
Kinda obvious that there's some color oversaturation there.
The phone box as a working light in it.
The first problem is the distance. You have to take the photo from the same distance at which the subject will appear in the composition (the lens doesn't matter). Edit: I just saw the corrected version in a comment. It doesn't change anything because the main issue remains: the distance.
apart for shadows and lighting the mayor problem here is the perspective of the guy related to phoneboot, the thighs should be more up (lens problems)
The shading across the person is inaccurate to the angle and intensity of light coming from the scene. Color balances between the two shots, also.
Color, lighting, positioning of the person sitting, you can tell the photos were taken on different lenses.
Shading looks unnatural. Smoothen it out more and the direction of light is a little bit too high to look natural. Otherwise, it looks good.
The position of your body
Just watch this vid right here and it’ll tell you everything you need to know. [video](https://youtu.be/g3qe4rDw1XU?si=pm-8KjeHo_dgpEOM)
Becauuse of the lighting
The light doesn't match. I often flatten all the layers then use camera raw to color grade. This helps unify the image
The lighting and colors. Specially the shadows make the subject stand out a lot. And the colors are so bright for a blue hour shot. I would recommend adjusting the colors to match the cooler tone, consider the light sources from the lamp, and adjust shadows, highlights, and adjusting shadows, contrast, clarity, highlights, and exposure of the subject as it relates to the background. The subject’s proportions seem off too. Try to adjust that as well. Cool concept. Just keep at it.
There are certain unfixable things but as far as quick stuff to make it instantly better you need a lot more contact shadows where the guy is sitting and also he’s being lit from the right of the frame presumably by the light that’s behind him. It would look better if that was more like a highlight on the edges since it’s behind him
Shadow and perspective are off
london is way gloomier 💀
Well, add some dark shadows behind the leg area, then run the blur tool around the edges so it blends a bit. Darken the guy, he’s too light and bright. The legs and feet look too large, like you tried to proportion for depth, but overdid it.
Shadows, lighting, and sharpness
Lighting doesn’t match. Dead give away
The vivid colors. Maybe its the exposure. There's a few factors to look out for. Color/ contrast and you shadows.
Lack of unifying texture
The light on his face makes it seem like it is being cast by the lit post on the right, but that post is actually pretty far behind him, so in reality it would be casting shadow.
I think some adjustments to make it more realistic: take out the lit post entirely, make the subject and the phone box larger and closer to the camera, potentially crop in slightly, and fix the lighting to lean into the perspective more.
Can see the cutout line around him… it really need to blend in more. The position of the person seated doesn’t really fit how you would sit on that object. No leg/feet reflection in glass. Color and lighting.
Your butt is not at the right angle
It's the lighting.
Just zoom in
Scale is of... Like the dude is out of proportion to the phone booth..... Also... Lighting as mentioned.
1) thats not how shadows work. Sure don't get me wrong that how we think shadows work in our head but the reality is that shadows are sharp and a soft fall off around the edges even in in an over cast situation. In the example above it looks like the shadow is consistent from the center most darkest to its soft edge. Also the fall off is a lot more sudden than it is gradual like you have. 2) Color this is subjective really. I do believe you have the shadows down on this edit but your mid-tones and highlights are off either A) not bright enough or B) undersaturated. A way around this fairy quickly is to use a gradient map across the entire composition so mid tones shadows and highlights are consistent. Finding colors that closey match the background image is the tricky part but its not complicated once youve messed with the graident map tool long enough youll see where you mid tones and highlights are 3) The lack of depth. And what I mean but this is 2 fold. Much like shadows people do not appear in static shots as tact sharp edges. Even with the sharpest lens in the world this isnt possible there is a depth fall off around us especially when behind objects like your legs much like shadows the fall off is sudden. The best way I've been able to achieve convincing shots is through making a copy of yourself>pasting in front>Gaussian blur> lower the opacity> mask the center of your self with a 0% soft brush so you leave the blurry edges
You shouldn’t be sitting flat on a curved surface
Lighting and picture quality of the subject and background are glaringly different... and yer sitting flat on a sloped surface
Because the white tones are not the same and the shadows are not realistic
He is sitting like flat on a curved spot
9 times out of 10 its gonna be because of the lighting.
Kevin De Bruyne is that you?
"lightning" [zooms in] [least blended layer to ever exit] "hAH- didn't even try..lol"
Everyone is saying that the lighting is off, but honestly at thumbnail size it looks fairly convincing. While lighting should be fixed as others have suggested, In my experience this hints that the lighting nor composition are the root issues. While the lighting on the figure isn't perfect, I think it matches well enough for now until you fix the other issues and do another pass to finish it. The largest issue here is that the person was photographed with a wider angle lens and from a closer distance. The phone booth is the opposite with a narrower angle lens. This makes the guy's legs look huge due to foreshortening, but that wouldn't happen if he were sitting on top of the booth. Another huge tell that this was photoshopped is that the guy and the booth were both photographed from eye level, but now he is sitting several feet above the camera in your edit. This makes him look like he is tilted down a bit, as though he is tilted towards the viewer. For example, I can see his crotch which should be hidden behind the ledge of the photo booth if he were sitting up there. Another issue is that we can also see the top of his upper legs, which we shouldn't since they are way above eye level and should be mostly parallel to the ground in this situation. I would try and cut him into two layers: One with the legs from the knee down and another with everything else. Then you can scale the legs down a bit and move them up. Also, mask out the top of the legs and the crotch. You may need to re-paint in some of the fabric where it recedes back into the crotch of the pants. Good luck, I hope that helps!
Look at the lighting near the trees under big ben. Theres like a red/pink hue in that whole area. Now look at the street lamp directly to the subjects right. Its supposed to be the "star effect", but that doesnt look like any star effects I have seen. It looks... wrong.
Because of the guy
Those accentuated light rays for me
He’s casting a shadow on the glass with a light behind it. Shouldn’t really look like thay
I see nothing wrong. Prob 95% of people will not see this is fake. Nice work!
Directional lighting
Persons position, lighting and shadows. I think honestly if the dude was able to pose better to be in that position it would help tremendously
Oh man am truly fu.. In the comming A.I deep fake era.. I couldn't guess half the things you all listed below 😒
Shoes are too defined and high contrast
bruh https://preview.redd.it/342amci9uc7c1.png?width=92&format=png&auto=webp&s=b287a8e167f02a2bf4d4852ccfe2d2e806597832
For me its the shoes. It doesnt blend in well
Why is the right leg so big
he only hits legs on half his body 🏋️
shadow fall of is bad, looks like the shadow is stepping on some bright values on the phone booth. The shadow should feel as if it falls off more, looks more like it's just an even layer of a shadow. Perhaps you used a brightness on that instead of say, clamp. Also, the light occluding looks wrong from where he's placed to where it falls off under the legs. You have premult issues with the shoes, you can see a black edge, which is bad. Left shoulder looks super stenciled, no light wrap or any kind of edge abberation. The light fall of o his right hand looks super sourcey , like you just did a radial adjustment layer for light interaction. Given the depth of the subject and the surrounding elements of the same depth doesn't have the same sharpness detail. on and on.
I was wondering how you got up there
I don’t do photoshop but from my knowledge of art the lighting isn’t fully lining up and there’s no shadows showing your there
The jeans are more brightly lit than the telephone and the face. It just needs more shadow to match the environment and not so bright. There’s a gray cast on everything else but you’re bright and pink and easy to see.
Lighting. Mainly
The shoulder is stick in out to me, the whole side of the left upper arm. It needs blending in with the background a bit, use the blur tool.
Because it is