Surrealistic Photomontage with Photoshop

You will meet Carlos Jiménez who will tell you about his training as a graphic designer, his 15-year professional career as a creative director in advertising agencies and how he managed to specialize in his passion: surrealist photomontage. In addition, you will see its main influences between the different styles of surrealism from classical to modern exponents.

Carlos will teach you different systems for generating ideas. Next, you will see the different criteria to make a preliminary photo selection and then make a digital draft that will help you make decisions about composition, perspective, and what works best.

You will perform photographic preproduction. You will see the equipment, materials and props you need to develop the production of your set. Once you have everything, you will see some considerations to make your photo session and you will discuss basic lighting techniques that will be very useful. Then, you will make preliminary cuts to create a separate assembly with elements to facilitate the integration of the final piece.

Then you will work the final assembly. You will ambulate the background, correcting the distortion of the base photograph and retouching and / or expanding the ground and sky to give it more personality. You will integrate the elements based on the assembly made previously, and you will make sure of the colors. Next, you will work the lights and shadows of each of the elements.

Carlos will give you a series of tips to finish your piece correctly. Thus, you will correct details, perform the colorization to homogenize the photomontage and apply textures to some of the elements.

At the end of the course you will have learned different techniques to stimulate your creativity and make it a reality through photographic and photo montage production processes.