Justin shares his experience with the War Series, telling his story about where this series came from and how it led to other jobs.

Getting Ready - shot during a war reenactors meetup in Kansas City, the background was less than ideal for a scene designed to invoke a Civil War scene. Justin talks about his lighting process and his planning in retouching this image.

Getting Ready continues to move toward its final state with Raw processing & cleanup, replacing the background and blending color schemes for a seamless look.

The power of Justin's virtual copy method is in full display here as he creates 15 different variations of the image and selects the one he likes best.

Justin retouches an image he was hired to do after the success of the images from the war reenactors meetup. Taken of a real active-duty Soldier on a former military fort, this image has all the right elements to make it stand out from the pack.

We continue The War Series with the compositing, RAW processing, and cleanup of Civil War.

With the color grading of Civil War we again get to see how having many virtual copies of an image really allows the user to explore the ways an image could be developed.

Seeing the final image of the war series outside of the context of the straight out of camera images you would never guess it was shot inside right outside of a museum's men's room. Justin cuts out the two Soldiers (really the same person in both uniforms) and blends them into a scene that one wo...

We get to watch as Justin walks us through the staggering transformation of the this final image in the War Series part of this tutorial. Cutting out and compositing these figures into a brand new location.

With the cutout and compositing completed Justin sets off to fully develop the French Soldiers image into a masterpiece. Showing just how much color helps develop the final image into a work of art.