You're right. The same word was used in typesetting. But it has migrated to several visual arts fields. It's quite common in filmmaking as well as in still photography.
Paul
On Jun 17, 2005, at 8:06 PM, Graywolf wrote:

I used to be a compositor, it was nothing like that. Compositing is typesetting (with loose type back in the days). I think the word you guys are trying to use is composite (made up of two or more parts). Compsiteing? Compositer?

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Cotty wrote:
On 17/6/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED], discombobulated, unleashed:
The photographers I know call the process compositing and the result a
photograph, not a collage.
I shopuld have said, of course, more like composting!
Har ;-)
Cheers,
  Cotty
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