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* Project six: The big project Festive snow fakes

Here’s a fun project to try over the festive break, and a great way to learn new camera and editing skills. Over the next few pages we’ll show you how create a Christmas snow globe composite.

We’ll shoot two separate images for this – first the children then the snow globe, and then blend them in Photoshop. To add a little extra depth and colour to the composite, we’ve also supplied a set of lovely bokeh images for you to use, either in this project or to add an atmospheric glow to any intriguing festive photo.

The key here is to match up the details in both photos. The more consistency we can achieve between the two, the easier they’ll be to blend together later. So we need to think about consistent lighting, camera

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