If you’re at Time magazine, you send work like this over to the retouch team with scribbled notes. Not so at small publishers.
Comping smoke that’s lit up against a black sky over a white logo is actually quite easy if you really think about it. The devil’s in the details of getting it looking primo.
Comping a motion-blurred, flash-filled spinning bicycle wheel with knobbly tyres that’s against a bright sky and a dark tree is not so easy. I could go into details but I’m boring myself thinking about how to explain it.
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