Course Description Join Creative Director and Photoshop Guru Rikard Rodin in creating an artistic composition of a lady with a fox. In addition to covering photoshop compositing basics—shortcuts, selection, masking, transform—there are unique techniques here for creating light rays, dust and for color grading.
Length: 1 hour, 37 minutes | Experience Level: Beginner to Intermediate | Required Software: Photoshop CC
Learn the most used shortcuts in Photoshop—and the shortcuts that will drastically speed up your photoshop compositing.
Here we use paths to cutout the model from the background and then refine that selection to include hair with the Selection and Mask tool.
Learn how to use quick selections, spot blurring and converting layers into masks.
Dive into additional selection methods—with color range and focus range selections.
Coloring with curves, adding ambient shadows, adding depth of field—all in one lesson.
Add lighting effects, including light rays made from noise gradients, to your composite in this lesson.
Learn how to use “Match Color” to create artistic color grading effects.
Each lesson video is provided in HD along with the art and graphic assets used in each lesson. Videos can be downloaded and viewed on any device or on any computer. After you’ve completed the course, you can email your completed photo composites (as flattened jpgs) to rikard@zevendesign.com for free reviews, critiques and tips to further increase your skill.