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Photoshop's Relight Layer: I Tested It So You Can Decide If 30 Credits Is a Steal or a Scam
Compositing is where the job gets humbling fast. You spend an hour cutting out a subject, carefully placing them into a new background, and then you zoom out and realize the lighting is completely wrong. Your subject is flat and cloudy-day soft, but the background is bathed in warm golden-hour sun. The whole thing looks pasted together, because it is. Fixing that mismatch used to mean either a lot of manual dodge and burn work or a series of careful blend-mode hacks that you’d have to rebuild every time the client asked for a revision.