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Unify Product Lighting

Create a believable composite placing the product photo into the CGI environment: match direction and color of existin…

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The same job, four heights

do it · improve it · decide · become
AExecute — “help me do it”Create a believable composite placing the product photo into the CGI environment: match…+
Create a believable composite placing the product photo into the CGI environment: match direction and color of existing lighting, refine edges and reflections, add consistent contact shadows, and deliver a layered PSD to the [approver=VFX supervisor] for approval.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.
BImprove — “do it better”Hand over a composite the art director can sign off on: match product specular and diffuse…+
Hand over a composite the art director can sign off on: match product specular and diffuse response to the CGI environment using matched curves and light wraps, paint physically consistent contact and ambient occlusion shadows, include render passes and a short notes layer explaining color/contrast fixes and remaining concerns for the compositor.
when the reply comes backPush once: ask it to sharpen the weakest part, and to say what it assumed.

The real tasks

1 of them
Create a believable composite that places a product photo into a CGI environment with unified lighting.

Who does this

1 roles
Motion / Multimedia Artist

Questions people ask

honest answers

Because you rarely think 'I want the redaction tool'. You think 'I have to share this without leaking the client's details'. Start from the need, and the feature finds you.

Real. Every job here was drawn from what people in real roles were actually seen doing in Photoshop — not a feature checklist.

No. Each page gives you a ready prompt you can paste into an AI assistant, plus the plain steps to do it yourself. Start with either — the goal is the finished job, not the tool.