Blending Photography with Graphics in Photoshop: What Aaron Nace's Workflow Taught Me About Working Smarter

Blending Photography with Graphics in Photoshop: What Aaron Nace's Workflow Taught Me About Working Smarter

A client brief landed in my inbox last month asking for a product campaign that felt “editorial but illustrated.” You know the type: photography that reads like a poster, with graphic elements woven into the image rather than dropped on top of it. I’ve been doing commercial post-production for fifteen years, and requests like that still make me pause. Not because the work is beyond reach, but because the margin for getting it wrong is thin.