Being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Venice, Italy would be a great location for a shoot, right? Trust us, Venice is a wonderful place to put a model in. Aside from being one of Europe’s most fashionable cities, it has great architecture and great sense of italian style. This makes Venice ideal for fashion and beauty shots

Just grab your passport*, Luggage,  Trolley, buy tickets, hop on a plane, get a hotel, scout for location…. wait, this seems like a lot of work… Guess what? We did all that for you.

Actually, we didn’t. We did better! We sent one of today’s leading photographers, Rebecca Bathory, to Venice. It’s hard to admit, but Rebecca can take waaaaay better photos than we can, and we wanted to have the best. So we stayed in the office while Rebecca tours the world. First stop: Venice of Italy.

Rebecca did tour the city, but not as a tourist, rather as a photographer and an artist, capturing photos that can serve as backgrounds and backplates for beautiful composites.

* Italy residents excluded

Think Like A Compositor

Because Rebecca is an artist herself and has dubbed with compositing, the backplates in this package were taken with you, the photographer in mind. The composition, angle and even focus, were all carefully crafted so it would be easy to composite models into the photo. You know, putting a model in Venice was the whole idea in the first place.

The process of making a good backplate involves quite a bit of attention which we want to share with you. You know, if you ever get to Venice and want to make some backplates yourself.

We used one of the best tools of our times to capture each photo – a 50.000 € medium format Mamiya camera and Schneider-Kreuznach lenses equipped with an 80 Megapixels back. This means that the photos are as sharp as they can be. And at roughly 10,000 x 8,000 px files, it also means that you don’t need to scale your models and can “zoom in” as much as you need.

We also made the photos composite ready both by selecting the right point of focus (we focus somewhere in the foreground, rather than keep the buildings tack sharp). This makes it easier to composite because the focal point is located where the model would be and the buildings at the background are slightly out of focus with a wonderful Schneider-Kreuznach bokeh.

We also made sure to include some lighting motivation, weather the sun, a street lamp or light coming through a narrow alley makes the scenes perfect for beauty and fashion photos.

Lastly, the massive 8-bit TIFF files format provides plenty of room for color and brightness adjustments as well as coloring for style.

Want to learn more?

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Being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Venice, Italy would be a great location for a shoot, right? Trust us, Venice is a wonderful place to put a model in. Aside from being one of Europe’s most fashionable cities, it has great architecture and great sense of italian style. This makes Venice ideal for fashion and beauty shots

Just grab your passport*, Luggage,  Trolley, buy tickets, hop on a plane, get a hotel, scout for location…. wait, this seems like a lot of work… Guess what? We did all that for you.

Actually, we didn’t. We did better! We sent one of today’s leading photographers, Rebecca Bathory, to Venice. It’s hard to admit, but Rebecca can take waaaaay better photos than we can, and we wanted to have the best. So we stayed in the office while Rebecca tours the world. First stop: Venice of Italy.

Rebecca did tour the city, but not as a tourist, rather as a photographer and an artist, capturing photos that can serve as backgrounds and backplates for beautiful composites.

* Italy residents excluded

Think Like A Compositor

Because Rebecca is an artist herself and has dubbed with compositing, the backplates in this package were taken with you, the photographer in mind. The composition, angle and even focus, were all carefully crafted so it would be easy to composite models into the photo. You know, putting a model in Venice was the whole idea in the first place.

The process of making a good backplate involves quite a bit of attention which we want to share with you. You know, if you ever get to Venice and want to make some backplates yourself.

We used one of the best tools of our times to capture each photo – a 50.000 € medium format Mamiya camera and Schneider-Kreuznach lenses equipped with an 80 Megapixels back. This means that the photos are as sharp as they can be. And at roughly 10,000 x 8,000 px files, it also means that you don’t need to scale your models and can “zoom in” as much as you need.

We also made the photos composite ready both by selecting the right point of focus (we focus somewhere in the foreground, rather than keep the buildings tack sharp). This makes it easier to composite because the focal point is located where the model would be and the buildings at the background are slightly out of focus with a wonderful Schneider-Kreuznach bokeh.

We also made sure to include some lighting motivation, weather the sun, a street lamp or light coming through a narrow alley makes the scenes perfect for beauty and fashion photos.

Lastly, the massive 8-bit TIFF files format provides plenty of room for color and brightness adjustments as well as coloring for style.

Want to learn more?

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Being one of the most beautiful cities in the world, Venice, Italy would be a great location for a shoot, right? Trust us, Venice is a wonderful place to put a model in. Aside from being one of Europe’s most fashionable cities, it has great architecture and great sense of italian style. This makes Venice ideal for fashion and beauty shots

Just grab your passport*, Luggage,  Trolley, buy tickets, hop on a plane, get a hotel, scout for location…. wait, this seems like a lot of work… Guess what? We did all that for you.

Actually, we didn’t. We did better! We sent one of today’s leading photographers, Rebecca Bathory, to Venice. It’s hard to admit, but Rebecca can take waaaaay better photos than we can, and we wanted to have the best. So we stayed in the office while Rebecca tours the world. First stop: Venice of Italy.

Rebecca did tour the city, but not as a tourist, rather as a photographer and an artist, capturing photos that can serve as backgrounds and backplates for beautiful composites.

* Italy residents excluded

Think Like A Compositor

Because Rebecca is an artist herself and has dubbed with compositing, the backplates in this package were taken with you, the photographer in mind. The composition, angle and even focus, were all carefully crafted so it would be easy to composite models into the photo. You know, putting a model in Venice was the whole idea in the first place.

The process of making a good backplate involves quite a bit of attention which we want to share with you. You know, if you ever get to Venice and want to make some backplates yourself.

We used one of the best tools of our times to capture each photo – a 50.000 € medium format Mamiya camera and Schneider-Kreuznach lenses equipped with an 80 Megapixels back. This means that the photos are as sharp as they can be. And at roughly 10,000 x 8,000 px files, it also means that you don’t need to scale your models and can “zoom in” as much as you need.

We also made the photos composite ready both by selecting the right point of focus (we focus somewhere in the foreground, rather than keep the buildings tack sharp). This makes it easier to composite because the focal point is located where the model would be and the buildings at the background are slightly out of focus with a wonderful Schneider-Kreuznach bokeh.

We also made sure to include some lighting motivation, weather the sun, a street lamp or light coming through a narrow alley makes the scenes perfect for beauty and fashion photos.

Lastly, the massive 8-bit TIFF files format provides plenty of room for color and brightness adjustments as well as coloring for style.

Want to learn more?

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We know that you are itching to know what kind of things we have in each and every package. I mean, it is one thing seeing the samples on the web, and another thing to experience a high-res fabric file at 36MP resolution or a gorgeous decay back-plate shot with a medium format camera.

This is why we created the CC-BY sampler package. It has about 7 gigs of files taken from all our packages. It is one or two files from each package and it absolutely rocks.

Wait we are making it better!  This is Name You Price package so you can decide how much you think all this awesomeness is worth. Think it is super awesome like we do, we recommend a $5 price.

Better? Once you’ve bought it for $5, you will get a $5 coupon to spend in the store. How cool is that!

* Coupon is only good for our graphic resources and can not be used for tutorials or software.

Attention!

Being a huge package of goodies we are unable to provide support for free downloads on this package.

Here is what the insides of the package looks like.

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BUBBLES! MY BUBBLES! Well…your bubbles too if you like. For this set we used all the washing up liquid we could find and you guessed it, filled the room full of bubbles for fun! Shot on a plain black background and lit from various angles, you may composite any of these 65 soapy spheres into your own work.

And you know the best bit? It’s free! Yes that’s right, even to use commercially! All we ask in return, is for a small mention on your social media (Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Tumblr, personal blog etc.) Telling your friends about us and sharing your post to receive a downloadable link

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Okay, we don’t mean to squeal like little pigs…but this package is seriously exciting! The exclusive ‘Brownz Toolbox’ is shot entirely by the incredible Peter Brownz Braunschmid and includes a high class quality of various stock shots to use.

From the eerie back streets of gothic Germany, to the city ruins of deserted civilisation, this magical package brings backgrounds for composites as well as objects shot from all perspectives. Figurines, dragons and aliens – there is so much potential in this postapocalyptic collection that your entire portfolio could use a single element and you still would have much more to play with.

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In addition to our popular ‘Bokeh 1’ package, we now have available ‘Bokeh 2’ by the one and only Joachim Wolfahrt
of Wolfahrt Pictures. These psychedelic creations offer a hypnotising series of purple light.

These surreal light forms are available in CC-BY license, meaning the package is entirely free of charge to be tweaked and played with however you like, providing Joachim is credited in publication

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From far Germany, we now present 121 variations of bokeh! BO-KEH! From street lights, to car headlights…to candle light and more delicate fairy lights. This package provides the ultimate array of carefully shot bokeh, in a variation of shape, size and colour. This collection of light flares offer an instant depth to your shots and a popular choice of nighttime ambience

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First let me assure you, no one was hurt making this package. (Well, no one other than our marketing director anyways)

You know how blood is crucial for making some photos look real, I mean it is not like you can go about maiming your models for effect, right? … RIGHT? ok, good.

This is why we created the blood package. It has all kinds of oozes, splatters and stains that you can apply digitally to a model to create the gore you so desired without hurting anyone. Just use one of the on-white bloody photos to “stamp” some blood on your composite.

But you know what, we actually did you one better, we made Photoshop brushes to the top blood marks to make your work even easier. This is the collection of brushes you will get with this package.

There! You are all set for some non-mutilating art

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Unless you have been living under a rock for some time, you will have noticed the rise in online vlogging and behind the scenes video production. Social media is a dominant part of most industries and being noticed is incredibly important for success. So with video production already on the increase, isn’t it about time you got involved?!

There is no better tool for ultimate cinematography than the RED EPIC camera and this package provides up to 40 minutes of real live footage, captured in 70 clips totalling 3GB on just that! Because well, if it’s good enough for Lord of the Rings…then it’s surely good enough for us!

The clips are created from in-studio photoshoots and divided into individual folders (camera, lights, makeup, model and retouching), meaning your editing workflow is made quick and simple. Use this package as introductions and fillers for your own videos or vlogs, when certain clips have been forgotten or become too difficult to shoot.

Filmed at 2k (300 fps) or 4k (25-100 fps) in mp4 format (H. 264), here are the advantages of this film stock package:

• At 100 frames per second, footage can either be accelerated or used in slow motion without loss of quality
• High resolution (with more than 4 times HD!) allows panning or zooming in and out
• Flat grading enables colour design in all styles

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NOTE:

The Brownz Neo Wings package are a fast-action product. That means that we make available at certain times only. The good news is that it is free. If you arrived here and the package is “out of stock”, go and like our Facebook page. This is where we shout when the package is available again. (each run is usually for 24 hours).

The photos above, are made using this awesome Neo Wings package made by Peter Brownz Braunschmid. You can see many more on Peter’s NeoAngel gallery.

Each wing set is a PSD file with alpha channel selection already provided

Here is a quick overview of the package:

and here are some ideas on how oyu can get creative with it (NSFW)

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We know how blood is important to you. Because, you know, life and that….

This is why we are offering lots of blood on this package. The package has 50 files which may not seem like a lot, but the amount of blood that went into each file is staggering.

No one was killed during the shoot, but our creative director definitely bled to make it happen. See what I did there?

Anyhow, we shot those against a grey backdrop so it will be easy to composite in individual layers. Have a bloody evening

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Get your fall mood on and watch the insanely beautiful colors of tree leaves. They are orange, they are brown, but most of all they make you long for things. There are over 100 leaves textures of different shapes.

No trees were hurt during the making of this package.

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Love the dexterity in the ‘Water’ package? Well then you’re going to love ‘Light’ just as much! Brought to you by Joachim Hiller, this 966 strong texture package is the largest available collection here at RAW Exchange.

The textures have been organised into three, easy to use folders: Effects, Tracks and Moods. Use these layers to create your own unique artworks kissed by the love of real light.

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We almost set fire to the studio bench creating these… but we didn’t! Hurrah! With the fine art style at its height of popularity amongst commercial and casual clients alike, the smoke effect is the ultimate must have in all composites. By sliding up and down the opacity level, you can add discreet wisps of subtle delicateness, or the bolder tones of more definitive clouds.

This top quality package includes 69 high resolution files shot on a black background. The smoke package can lift a lifeless image into an ethereal dreamland, questioning the realms of reality

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Beam me up Scotty! No, it’s not Star Trek…this is the perfect package to great illuminations as layers, just like those you’d expect to see from alien abductions! So whilst there’s no Will Smith in sight to save the day, we’ve prepared these fantastic light beams shot on a black background, also ideal for car headlights or the spotlight of a product for sale.

It is worth noting that there are some minor scratches in the images due to dirt on the sensor, however these only add more texture to the beam of the light.

Samples!!!

Yea, this is what you can do:

artist: Netpixel.at (all rights reserved by the Author)

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The ‘best’ part of throwing fabric is the unpredictability – but not so much when you want it to land a certain way! Luckily for you, we hired a top training professional to pose the free falling fabric to perfection! Ideal for extending clothing and loose flying fabric, this package is perfect for fashion and fine art editing. Using the finest cashmere silk, these images were shot on a black background and produced in various shades of grey (with no Christian Grey in sight) for simple color alteration.

This 900 piece collection of rippling material offers movement, texture and extendable fabric to material used both on land and underwater. Shot on a Nikon D800, these images also come as additional high resolution Photoshop brushes

There are two types of fabrics in the package, clean fabrics and grunge fabrics. The first is cleaner and the second is, well….grungier

Clean

Grunge

Looking for some sample work? we hear ya!

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Winter is coming Jon Snow! Well – at least it can be at any time of year now! With this brand new package, you can create snow from the comfort of your own home, without even having to go out!

Add layers of snow to create a wintery scene, an excellent backup for those days you most need it and is nowhere to be found. Ideal for creating wintery stock images in preparation for Christmas cards and calendar stock shots

The photos are made at 7360 x 4912 px resolution so they will fit perfectly on any sized photo. Each flake is carefully posed against a black backdrop so it is easy to add it to as a photoshop layer, simply “multiply negative” layer blending mode and viola! Instant snow. And yes it looks totally real, it is real snow after all.

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LONDON is the craziest place on earth! Insanely high rent, tourists swarming everywhere. And, of course, the Royal family…

But London is also an incredibly beautiful city. Really. This is why so many great movies are set in London. And this is why London’s streets also are considered one of the most beautiful backgrounds for photographers. EVER! Did you have a client sending you to London to shoot? If not, we can help!

For our city series we commissioned one of the best photographers of our time to shoot backgrounds for us. Our first set was the Venice set, and it was so good that we had to get another European capital – London.  And we LOVE it: The elegant townhouses, the typical red phone booths and many a royal palace form the backdrop for urban composing.

But it is not only the city that makes this package different. This package is fundamentally different from your average vacation photos and other stock photos. As with the Venice set, to place a model in a pre-made backdrop you have to take the photo with the composite in mind… Which luckily, we did:

Most photographers shoot models as good as they can. This means that the model is probably “sitting” on more than 20 megapixels, and if they are standing than it is 20 megapixels shot vertically . Landscapes and cities, however, are mostly shot landscape mode . This means that you either have to squash your model or shoot bigger landscapes. Which we did!  The backdrops are a massive 80 megapixels files (or 10,000 x 7,500 px), so no scaling!scaling-free work.

The focal point in the pictures was deliberately set “wrong” – we are not focusing on the building, but rather on where a model will be placed, so you would get a sweet, sweet bokeh of a Schneider-Kreuznach lens

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So you want to capture fire for your Photoshop composites…but you don’t really fancy putting your camera into the flames. No problem! We embedded a brand new Nikon D800 in a flaming hot burning inferno to create this unique collection of pictures!

This high resolution set offers a quality collection of fiery images that retains the intricate detail of flames and sparks each on a 36 megapixel file against a black backdrop

Did you really ask what would I need all this fire for? Hit the showcase tab!

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