Fix My Composite: Live Critiques Using AI as a Visual Roadmap with Karen Alsop

This course is an interactive workshop for composite artists who know the frustration of the “last 20%.” You’ve spent hours cutting out elements, masking, and building a world, but something still feels slightly off. The lighting isn’t perfectly cohesive, the tone lacks mood, or one element is disrupting the composition. This class is designed to help you break through that final creative ceiling.

In this session, Karen Alsop introduces a practical way to use Photoshop’s generative AI tools as an instant visual feedback loop. Instead of spending hours guessing what your image needs, you’ll learn how to test lighting changes, tonal shifts, and object replacements to create a visual roadmap for your final piece without altering your original pixels.

Watch as Karen takes nearly finished composites from real students and diagnoses what each one needs to cross the finish line. You’ll see how to use AI as a non-destructive digital moodboard, then turn those generative layers off and apply traditional, award-ready compositing techniques for the final polish.

This class includes a dedicated 30 minutes of Q&A directly with Karen Alsop.

What You'll Learn

• Use Photoshop’s generative AI as a fast visual guide to test lighting changes, object replacements, and tonal shifts.
• Learn how to use AI strictly as a conceptual roadmap, then turn it off to apply traditional composite techniques for the final output.
• Analyze light direction and harmonize different elements so your composites look more seamless and realistic.
• Save time by visualizing your final results before committing to complex manual edits.

Who It's For

• Intermediate to advanced compositors who know how to build a composite but struggle with the final high-end polish.
• Artists who often get stuck at the 80% mark and want a better way to evaluate what an image still needs.
• Photographers and digital artists who want to use Generative AI efficiently without giving up traditional craftsmanship.

About the Instructor

Karen Alsop is an internationally acclaimed Melbourne, Australia-based photographic digital artist. Expanding on two decades of photographic and graphic design experience, Karen brings photography and art together to create stunning artworks that tell a story and take the viewer into another world.

Specializing in Portrait Art, her digital portraiture captures the personality and character of her subjects by placing them within a visual story highlighting their interests. Karen uses the power of Photoshop to composite multiple captures together, making the impossible possible within her art.