Photograph Retouching and Visual Effects with Photoshop

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Course overview

Provider
Domestika
Course type
Paid course
Level
Intermediate
Deadline
Flexible
Duration
2 hours
Lessons
13 lessons
Certificate
Available on completion
Course author
Mario Olvera

The work of Mario Olvera - photographer and digital artist, with extensive professional experience in the world of photo retouching - is strongly influenced by film and video games. His compositions, hyperrealist, are full of details and bright colors.

In this course, Mario will teach you how to use Photoshop tools creatively. You will learn new and surprising techniques of retouching and visual effects that will help you make a leap of quality to your designs and photographs but, above all, to your photocompositions. You will know new ways to make realistic photocompositions with a kinematic touch integrating, in a natural way, all kinds of visual effects.

Description

Learn to create hyper-realistic photocompositions full of action and dynamics

You will start knowing the work and influences of Mario Olvera. Afterwards, it will show you what criteria you use to choose the photographs you use in your photomontages.

Then, it will reveal some of the techniques and tricks used to cut the figures and how the composition is proposed. You will see how to work with guides that will help you when considering perspective, build your stage and add lighting sources from different photographs.

You will discover the importance of color correction and learn to apply it to integrate, completely and naturally, all the elements that make up your final composition. To give you the final details, you will use the technique of dodge & burn, which allows you to enhance and create photo volumes through the application of light and shadow.

You will use the adjustment layers to add spectacular visual effects and create action-packed dynamic images, including elements such as fire, particles and light effects.

To finish, Mario will teach you how to export your images to share them digitally.

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