Photo Manipulation
Why Your Photo Composites Look Fake (And the Luminosity Trick That Fixes It)
I once spent three days on a composite. Three full days, multiple oat milk lattes, two different coffee shops, and one very dramatic Spotify playlist. I was proud of it. I sent it to a designer friend for feedback and he replied with a voice memo, which is never a good sign. Turns out he’d recreated something cleaner in about 20 minutes using a luminosity-based matching workflow I had never once considered.