How to Nail the Expendables-Style Gun Composite Using Smart Objects in Photoshop

How to Nail the Expendables-Style Gun Composite Using Smart Objects in Photoshop

A few years into freelancing, I had a client ask me for a “gritty action movie poster vibe” for a gym promotion. They sent me a reference image, and it was basically the Expendables poster. Which, fair enough, that poster slaps. I spent an embarrassing amount of time fussing with selections and layer masks before I stumbled onto a workflow that actually made the whole thing manageable. The technique Corey Barker walks through in this Watch the full tutorial on YouTube episode of PhotoshopUser TV is almost exactly what I wish I’d had that day.