Digital Collage in Photoshop: Composition and Visual Effects
Selections
A course by Nick Pedersen , Photographer and Digital Artist
About the video: Selections
Overview
“Next, I will show you a few useful tools and techniques for making selections to separate parts of an image from the background using a layer mask. I’ll also cover some different options to seamlessly edit and refine your selections.”
In this video lesson Nick Pedersen addresses the topic: Selections, 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
“Selections In this lesson I'll show a few useful tools and techniques that I use for making selections, to separate an image from the background and basically create a cutout for an image we can use to start overlaying a bunch of different images together and so I'm gonna go in depth into some examples about how to seamlessly edit and refine these selections and make your job a lot easier in Photoshop to overlay images and start building up a project. There are different techniques to make selections, and different tools that you can use, and so there's different ones that are better for di...”
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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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