6 compositing and retouching video tutorials by Fantasy Interactive
At Fantasy Interactive, we have the opportunity to work with brand leaders whom innovate and inspire us in everyday life. However, hard work, dedication and the right process is still required.
In the case of our recent award winning Panamera website for Porsche, we had a few challenges put on front of us when it came to creating realistic environments to perfectly match a cars driving path. Anton Repponen, ACD at Fantasy, takes us through the process and how to over come the challenges via six HD video tutorials.
Intro to Image Retouching / Compositing
Here we take a look at where the ideas for the scenes came from.

Porsche 911
Anton composes a scene to match the 911's personality with the environment of a winding road next to the coast.

Porsche Cayenne
How about a flat autobahn with the black forest in the background for this SUV thriller?

Boxster
The Boxster is all about taking great curves and feeling the wind.

Cayman
It's night and time to take out the Cayman for a spin in an Urban sprawl.

Spyder
Ready to race? This scene was one of the toughest scenes to compose.

Check out the Porsche Panamera case study and upload your Porsche story to Panamera.com
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VARKODE
9 months ago
This is really informative. Thank you for sharing.
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bachian
9 months ago
Awesome! Thanks for sharing!
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David
9 months ago
Anton as usual terrific tutorial and behind the scenes. Those of you whom don't know Anton, he is fascinated by details and loves to share his knowledge. Here is the Porsche Bloodlines stuff behind the scenes: http://www.kontain.com/fi/entries/936/porsche-bloodlines--behind-the-scenes/
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AlexanderG
9 months ago
Ohh lovely! I really liked the first porsche tutorials you guys did, and i like the new ones even more!
Good job!
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Meredith
9 months ago
THis is really useful!
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karlstanton
9 months ago
Awesome stuff!!
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dmfoto
9 months ago
Awesome stuff as usual Anton!
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Jens Fischer
9 months ago
More of those please... Thank you for sharing OSM stuff...
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alexanderc...
9 months ago
Really useful, thnx 4 sharing
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vajna
9 months ago
You just make it seem so darn easy! :)
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DrawingArt
9 months ago
Really cool Anton. Its really nice to see how professionals like Anton handle those details in photoshop. Awesome work for sure ...
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xtremewebart
9 months ago
Very Nice with a lot of fantasy. Good Job at all!
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Dark Schne...
9 months ago
Amazing stuff !! this guy really rocks !!! keep up the excellent work man and thanks for sharing !!
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David Lind...
9 months ago
Thanks for sharing Anton, awesome!
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Stratto
9 months ago
Excellent work Anton and a great demonstration of your passion for details and design.
Just goes to show you anything is possible.
Now I need to get out of these wireframes and start applying similar magic.
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James Patr...
9 months ago
mad props! great hard work put to use. rock on.
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Cobo
9 months ago
nice brushing work anton... i rememeber doing alot of this stuff when i was a scanner-operator and image manipulator back in the nineties. two thumbs up. :)
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Dakata
9 months ago
Great work! Thanks for the post!
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PeteGeller
9 months ago
Thanks to get a view about your shoulder ;-) Love it!
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CatalinaAg...
9 months ago
Great tutorials! Its nice to see how you guys work :]
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Jeroen
9 months ago
Awesome work, especially on the details.
One thing I really want to know. How much time you spend on this? For example video nr 4. You'll get the photo in front of you.. You find out the photo is not the quality that you want and decide to make some changes in the photo. Like different mountains at the background (you have to look for some other photo's with mountains, wich takes time), different rocks, etc. All those aspects cost you time and it's not that some actions are perfect just the first time. Right? :)
So in short, how much time did you roughly spend on the final result you got of the boxter image?
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Cobo
9 months ago
i'm not anton... but it shouldn't take more than 6-8 hours. depends on how versatile and trained you are ;)
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Jeroen
9 months ago
@cobo
Yes well it depends on that on how well you trained you are with photoshop :) But also the time before you can actually start brushing, cloning, copy pasting, masking, etc. Before you can do that you have to think about wich parts you want to replace and also with what footage, is the right footage allready in the original picture or is it in an other picture in the database and then you have to research, that time counts too in the process.
And that's what I really want to know, the whole process: from scratch till the final result.
For myself I know it can cost you a lot of work. If I had todo that, I think I had to spend 3-4 hours researching what I want to replace and searching the right footage for the final result and then again 3-4 hours to get the things together and actually mask and brush and then maybe 1-2 hours to get the final result, refignment :). These are my thoughts about it :) -
Martin
9 months ago
Thanks so much for sharing your work and how you did it.
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repponen
9 months ago
Hey guys, thanks for all the comments, glad you found it useful at least.
@Jeroen
One scene took about 6 hours to make. For me it all comes down to how much time I can really use making it defined by the project scope. In this case I had about a week for all the scenes, which gave me about a day for each, plus I need to leave room for the feedback. Based on that I had to plan what exactly I can/want to do within this time. If I would have more or less time I would go probably a bit different direction and try to work from there.
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Daniel
9 months ago
It´s really nice man!
tks
@dnmack
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peak9ine
9 months ago
Thanks for taking the time to post this. It's awesome to see your process.
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pulsewax
9 months ago
Honorable post...!!
Thanks for your sharing is a pleasure to see how a professional designer works!!!
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mikepolak
9 months ago
Wonderful work Anton! Thanks for sharing your process:)
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Hendrik
9 months ago
Very nice, thnx for sharing!!
Seeing videos like this always inspire me to open up photoshop and start designing. Which is what I'm actually gonna do right now :)
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cooldept
9 months ago
This is great! Thank you
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jason
9 months ago
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Marky
8 months ago
These are all nice. Your use of colour is particularly good.
…you can disable and enable a layer mask by simply SHIFT clicking on it, no need to control click and choose from the dropdown. -
Nghi
8 months ago
Although I'm not a designer, I can see how skillful and creative you are in those videos. Would love to see more of those stuff here. Thanks Anton & FI.
Cheers.
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test
7 months ago
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prideparanoia
6 months ago
Just saw a car tv show in the portuguese television that show exactly the same place where the original photo from the Porsche 911 was taken. It's in Arrabida in Portugal :D
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