Digital Collage in Photoshop: Composition and Visual Effects
Workspace
A course by Nick Pedersen , Photographer and Digital Artist
About the video: Workspace
Overview
“I will begin by introducing Photoshop and showing how you can customize your workspace. Then I’ll work on setting up a background template for our project and start bringing in images through Camera Raw. ”
In this video lesson Nick Pedersen addresses the topic: Workspace, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Collage in Photoshop: Composition and Visual Effects. Create fantastic worlds with a meaningful message through montage and retouching.
Partial transcription of the video
“Workspace Now I'll teach you the main compositing techniques that I use in Photoshop to create my work. We'll start by going over the Photoshop workspace and show how to set up a template using all the right settings to begin our project. After that I'll go into bringing images through Camera Raw, which is a powerful program that allows you to do a lot of pre-adjustments to your images, affecting the exposure, the color balance, and sharpening, and doing all of these things before we go into Photoshop to make your job easier for compositing. Before we begin, I'd also recommend if you have a...”
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Course summary for: Digital Collage in Photoshop: Composition and Visual Effects
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Category
Photography & Video -
Software
Adobe Bridge, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Fine-Art Photography, Photo Retouching, Photographic Composition, Photography, Photomontage

Nick Pedersen
A course by Nick Pedersen
Nick Pedersen is a photo-based digital artist and illustrator whose work primarily focuses on nature and environmental issues. He holds a photography degree and an MFA in Digital Arts from Pratt Institute in New York. His artwork has been featured in galleries across the USA and internationally, including at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Paradigm Gallery, and Arch Enemy Arts.
He has published two artist books featuring his long-term personal projects, Sumeru and Ultima. His award-winning images have allowed him to work on commercial projects for companies like Adobe, Patagonia, and the Nature Conservancy. His work has also been featured in publications like Vogue, Create Magazine, Juxtapoz, Hi-Fructose, Photoshop User, and After Capture.
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