/ 2026-05-02T16:32:15+00:00 / /lib/tpl/dazdoccenter/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-08-15T17:50:44+00:00 /public/read_me/index/63193/file_list <h1 id="file_list">File List</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> Below is a list of files provided by the <a href="/public/read_me/index/63193/start" class="wikilink1" title="public:read_me:index:63193:start">Composites : How to Integrate Photos with your DAZ Renders</a> product. </p> <p> <h2 id="core">Core</h2> <div class="level2"> </div> <!-- EDIT1 PLUGIN_INCLUDE_START "public:read_me:index:63193:file_list_core" [0-] --><div class="plugin_include_content plugin_include__public:read_me:index:63193:file_list_core"> <div class="level2"> <p> <h2 id="compositeshow_to_integrate_photos_with_your_daz_renders">Composites : How to Integrate Photos with your DAZ Renders</h2> <div class="level2"> <ul> <li class="level1 node"><div class="li"> <strong>Content :</strong></div> <ul> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> /General/Digital Art Live/Composites How to Integrate Photos with your <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Renders/Composites.mp4</div> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </p> </div> <!-- EDIT3 PLUGIN_INCLUDE_EDITBTN "public:read_me:index:63193:file_list_core" [0-] --><!-- EDIT2 PLUGIN_INCLUDE_END "public:read_me:index:63193:file_list_core" [0-] --></div> <div class="level2"> </div> </p> </div> text/html 2019-08-15T17:50:50+00:00 /public/read_me/index/63193/file_list_core <h1 id="core">Core</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> <h2 id="compositeshow_to_integrate_photos_with_your_daz_renders">Composites : How to Integrate Photos with your DAZ Renders</h2> <div class="level2"> <ul> <li class="level1 node"><div class="li"> <strong>Content :</strong></div> <ul> <li class="level2"><div class="li"> /General/Digital Art Live/Composites How to Integrate Photos with your <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Renders/Composites.mp4</div> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </p> </div> text/html 2019-08-15T17:51:40+00:00 /public/read_me/index/63193/start <h1 id="compositeshow_to_integrate_photos_with_your_daz_renders">Composites : How to Integrate Photos with your DAZ Renders</h1> <div class="level1"> <p> <a href="/lib/exe/fetch.php?tok=e36483&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Fgcdn.daz3d.com%2Fp%2F63193%2Fi%2Fcomposites--how-to-integrate-photos-with-your-daz-renders-00-main-daz3d.jpg" class="media" target="_blank" title="https://gcdn.daz3d.com/p/63193/i/composites--how-to-integrate-photos-with-your-daz-renders-00-main-daz3d.jpg" rel="noopener"><img src="/lib/exe/fetch.php?w=500&amp;h=650&amp;tok=71e793&amp;media=https%3A%2F%2Fgcdn.daz3d.com%2Fp%2F63193%2Fi%2Fcomposites--how-to-integrate-photos-with-your-daz-renders-00-main-daz3d.jpg" class="media" title="Click for original" alt="Click for original" width="500" height="650" /></a> </p> <div class="table sectionedit1"><table class="inline" style="min-width: 0px; width: 500px;"> <col style="width: 150px" /> <tr class="row0"> <th class="col0 rightalign"> Product Name: </th><td class="col1 leftalign"> <a href="https://www.daz3d.com/composites--how-to-integrate-photos-with-your-daz-renders" class="urlextern" target="_blank" title="https://www.daz3d.com/composites--how-to-integrate-photos-with-your-daz-renders" rel="nofollow noopener">Composites : How to Integrate Photos with your DAZ Renders</a> </td> </tr> <tr class="row1"> <th class="col0 rightalign"> Product ID: </th><td class="col1 leftalign"> 63193 </td> </tr> <tr class="row2"> <th class="col0 rightalign"> Published Artist(s): </th><td class="col1 leftalign"> <a href="https://www.daz3d.com/digital-art-live/" class="urlextern" target="_blank" title="https://www.daz3d.com/digital-art-live/" rel="nofollow noopener">Digital Art Live</a> </td> </tr> <tr class="row3"> <th class="col0 rightalign"> Created By: </th><td class="col1 leftalign"> N/A </td> </tr> <tr class="row4"> <th class="col0 rightalign"> Release Date: </th><td class="col1 leftalign"> 2019-08-21 </td> </tr> </table></div> <!-- EDIT1 TABLE [162-499] --> <h2 id="product_information">Product Information</h2> <div class="level2"> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> Required Products: <em>None</em><br/> </div> </li> </ul> <p> Integrating photographs with <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Studio generated renders provides a new universe of possibilities for the digital artist! You can suddenly insert familiar people, objects and landscape elements into your crafted fantasy rendered scene. Compositing can start with the simple - by changing out a sky or background to something more complex, such as placing a photographed person naturally into a 3D generated scene by <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Studio. </p> <p> There are certain essential principles that will help get you the best results and Deanna Cathcart (Deathbycanon in the <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> forums), a prolific and popular artist at <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> 3D, Renderosity and DeviantArt will show you how to do this! </p> <p> Her step by step case study includes the melding of a photo subject (in this case her daughter) with <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Dragon 3 characters and stock photo backgrounds. </p> <p> Applications used in this tutorial </p> <p> <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Studio and Photoshop </p> <p> Tutorial Content : 1 hour and 58 minutes </p> <p> Planning the composite final image Planning for the photoshoot </p> <p> Lighting Consider using the model&#039;s head/face only Costumes Posing Camera settings Finding and using stock images <abbr title="Digital Art Zone">DAZ</abbr> Studio work </p> <p> Matching lighting Matching the virtual camera angle and settings Make a billboard from the model Shadows Main Photoshop work?“Grounding” the photo models into the scene </p> <p> Softening the photo models Masking Matching tones Shading Head swap : how to composite a model&#039;s head image onto a 3D character </p> <p> Postwork Finishing touches </p> <p> Textures Filters Light rays Detailing About the presenter : Deanna Cathcart (Deathbycanon) Deanna Cathcart has played around in photoshop since ps5 came out in 1999. She did composites using other people&#039;s stock for several years before picking up a camera in 2004 to start taking her own photos to work from. That didn&#039;t last long as she quickly became very well know locally for her photography and opened up her own photography studio a few months later. It was a very successful business, but the stress that came with it didn&#039;t play well with her chronic illness and after several hospitalisations doctors told her she needed to stop working. She closed the studio in 2012. It was too depressing for her to even touch a camera for a few years so she took a break. </p> <p> Then her youngest daughter became interested in makeup and costumes and would dress up and ask her mother to take her photos, so Deanna picked her camera back up. She went back to the reason she picked her camera up in the first place and started doing composites again. Some of these needed dragons, and she was running out of pre rendered dragons being offered at DeviantArt, so in 2017 she ventured into Daz Studio. It took her awhile to get the hang of it but once she did she loved it. It was like having her photography studio back again! Deanna is now a successful digital artist and is a co-founder of Sympatico Studios </p> </div> <h2 id="product_notes">Product Notes</h2> <div class="level2"> </div> <h3 id="installation_packages">Installation Packages</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> Below is a list of the installation package types provided by this product. The name of each package contains a <a href="/public/software/install_manager/referenceguide/terms/package_qualifier/start" class="wikilink1" title="public:software:install_manager:referenceguide:terms:package_qualifier:start">Package Qualifier</a>, which is used as a key to indicate something about the contents of that package. </p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> 1 Core</div> </li> </ul> <p> <em>[ ] = Optional, depending on target application(s)</em> </p> <p> Not all installation packages provide files that are displayed to the user within the interface of an application. The packages listed below, do. The application(s), and the location(s) within each application, are shown below. </p> </div> <h3 id="additional_details">Additional Details</h3> <div class="level3"> <p> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <a href="/public/read_me/index/63193/file_list" class="wikilink1" title="public:read_me:index:63193:file_list">File List</a></div> </li> </ul> </p> </div> <h3 id="resolved_issues">Resolved Issues</h3> <div class="level3"> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <em>None</em></div> </li> </ul> </div> <h3 id="known_issues">Known Issues</h3> <div class="level3"> <ul> <li class="level1"><div class="li"> <em>None</em></div> </li> </ul> </div> <h2 id="support">Support</h2> <div class="level2"> </div> <!-- EDIT2 PLUGIN_INCLUDE_START "public:read_me:index:start" [0-] --><div class="plugin_include_content plugin_include__public:read_me:index:start"> <div class="level2"> <p> Visit our site for <a href="http://www.daz3d.com/shop/help/help-contact-us" class="urlextern" target="_blank" title="http://www.daz3d.com/shop/help/help-contact-us" rel="nofollow noopener">technical support</a> questions or concerns. </p> </div> <!-- EDIT3 PLUGIN_INCLUDE_END "public:read_me:index:start" [0-] --></div> <div class="level2"> </div> </p> </div>