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Collage: Oh! That's how you do it. Workflow tips and tricks for digital collage illustrations.

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Overview

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Have you ever sat next to someone and watched them work and think ohhhh! that's how you do it! Ok, this class is all about that. It is not centered in the collage itself, I will be making one of course, but it's about practicing, making Photoshop your friend, and learn ways of solving problems that can be quite useful.

This class is for intermediate Photoshop users as I will be skipping some of the very basic concepts, anyway don't worry if you are a beginner, I will provide you with the files that I use so you can follow along.

I will be showing which shortcuts I use, my favorite Photoshop tools and some workflow tips white going through the process of making a digital collage.

I am Marcos Morales, a freelance graphic designer and illustrator. I have been very lucky to work on many different projects for brands, agencies and for myself. As my work uses digital collage as its base, I have always felt the need to somehow change and own images from different media. By spending quite a few hours a day sitting in front of Photoshop I've adopted a way of working and I believe I can give you some tips on how I use it. As I said this class is about practicing and we will review tips that will help you go from the first selection to the moment of saving the file and make them as small as possible.

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Syllabus

  • Introduction
  • Class project
  • First show transform controls
  • Content-aware textures
  • Selecting subjects
  • Easy selections
  • Shaping images freely
  • Get more brushes
  • Say no to eraser
  • Easy selections part 2
  • Using Smart objects
  • Getting rid of backgrounds in a second
  • Rotating canvas as a paper
  • Make versions, save yourself
  • Shortcuts
  • Improving the collage
  • Reduce file size
  • Final thoughts and goodbye

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Marcos Morales

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