Two Minutes to a Different Image: What Dan Harlacher's Quick Composite Taught Me About Trusting the Process

I’ve been building composites professionally for over a decade. Movie posters, book covers, album art. I sketch every single one on paper before I open any software, because I’ve learned the hard way that the planning phase is where composites live or die. So when a tutorial promises a “quick composite,” my instinct is usually skepticism. Quick composites tend to look like quick composites. But I kept running into a specific problem in my client work: approval rounds.