Pineapple Collage
We’re going to make a simple collage by cutting and pasting pieces of photos into a composite image. Time: 60 minutes
Photoshop
Excalibur
In Photoshop, you can make something glow as if it were a light itself. You can also create lighting by working with adjustment layers and masks. In this exercise you will make the sword Excalibur glow as if it possesses magic power…
Greetingcard
The goal is simple: with as little (or as much) as you know, design a greetingcard in InDesign. The aim of this exercise is to introduce you to the different software programs and their role in the design process. Time: 60 min
Creating a PDF for print
As its acronym suggests: the Portable Document Format has many different uses. For instance, A PDF can be created for use on screens or in print, it can be interactive, contain links or webcontent such as video. It can also be standardized to different kinds of print techniques, colors, inks, et cetera. This page helps …
Retouching
Editing an image to correct small mistakes or make improvements to light and color is called retouching. Photoshop offers a couple of tools for retouching that can make your life easier. Time: 60 minutes
Mockup
A mockup is a presentation – image of a product that does not (yet) exist. You are going to create a mockup of one of your works using a downloaded template. Below you can see examples of the enormous amount of templates you can find online. Time: 30 minutes
Movie poster: double exposure
Before the computer era, a double exposure image was created by literally exposing the same negative twice. This resulted in kind of ghostly images, the end result of which was always an (uncontrolable) suprise. Nowadays Photoshop offers much more control over this process. Time: 90 minutes
Color Correction
There are many ways to correct color in Photoshop. Choosing the right approach depends on the properties of your image. Below you’ll find a couple of images that have a problem with color. Try to correct these as well as you can. Follow along with the steps in the description to discover different methods. Time: …
Girl at the beach
This exercise takes the concept of masking to where it becomes very useful. Consider selecting individual strands of hair, blowing in the wind. None of the selection tools can do it, but masks can. Here’s how. Time: 60 minutes
Pulling a sketch from the paper
When you scan your sketches and edit them in Photoshop, you may encounter the need to ‘lift’ the sketch from the paper. That is: you want your sketch in a layer of its own, including all transparency but without the white pixels of the paper. Here’s how. Time: 30 minutes Steps Open sketch.JPG in Photoshop …