The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

Photoshop - Final Touches 2

A course by Laura Zalenga , Photographer

Photographer. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Joined October 2019
99% positive reviews (167)
5,144 students
Audio: English, Spanish
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About the video: Photoshop - Final Touches 2

Overview

“It is all about details and visually ‘cleaning’ the image to make it more clear.”

In this video lesson Laura Zalenga addresses the topic: Photoshop - Final Touches 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography. Learn how to use photography to delve into your thoughts and feelings.

Partial transcription of the video

“Photoshop final touches What's the next one I'll edit? Maybe it's these four actually. I just bring them, all four. Is it possible? Let's see. Or are we making Photoshop go crazy? I guess it'll ask me for every one of them. Yes, yes and yes. This one I can close. What do I want to do? Here's the arm and here's the other one. So maybe we first do this one, and I'll steal the arm from here. So I select it with the Lasso tool and it gives me an easier time if I Feather that a bit. Now it's a bit of a softer selection on the edges. And Command + J turns it into another layer. Now we see that he...”

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Course summary for: The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

  • Level: Beginner
  • 99% positive reviews (167)
  • 5144 students
  • 5 units
  • 18 lessons (3h 19m)
  • 6 downloads
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    Photography & Video
  • Areas

    Photography, Portrait Photography, Self-Portrait Photography, Studio Photography

Laura Zalenga

Laura Zalenga
A course by Laura Zalenga

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Laura Zalenga is a German freelance photographer with a passion for creating self-portraits filled with emotion. She started taking photographs at eighteen and although she went on to study Architecture in Munich, she always found the time and inspiration for photography, publishing her work on Flickr and Facebook, where she first started to get noticed.

Laura’s visual language is captivating and clear, narrating an intimate story in every image she produces. She believes photography to be a type of therapy and one of the motivating factors behind her work, capable of healing both ourselves and others.

In 2018, she was one of the seven international artists selected for the Adobe Creative Residency and has worked for companies such as Adobe, Artemide, Disney, Lufthansa, Sony, and more. Laura also teaches workshops and gives inspirational talks relating to photography throughout the world.


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The Art of Self-Portraits: Expressing Yourself through Photography

A course by Laura Zalenga
Photographer. Rotterdam, Netherlands.
Joined October 2019
  • 99% positive reviews (167)
  • 5,144 students