7 tips for perfect Photoshop compositing — updated for the AI era

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What AI changed, what it didn’t, and why the fundamentals still decide everything You’ve seen it. Someone drops a subject into a new background, slaps a color grading LUT on top, and calls it a compositing. Two minutes later, the comments section does what comment sections do. “The lighting is off.” “Why is the shadow […]