Digital Collage in Photoshop: Composition and Visual Effects
Final Touches
A course by Nick Pedersen , Photographer and Digital Artist
About the video: Final Touches
Overview
“In this lesson I will show how to add a graphic element to your composition using vectors. Then I will talk about how to crop and size your image and save it using a few different formats, for websites and social media up to making large-scale prints.”
In this video lesson Nick Pedersen addresses the topic: Final Touches, 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
“Final Touches In this lesson I'll go over some final touches you can add to finish your project so that everything is complete. I'll start by showing how to add a graphic element to your image to contrast with the statue design so everything is complete and finished in our composition, and then I'll show you how to finalize an image by flattening everything using techniques of cropping and sizing so we can save it for different formats. Remember that if you're creating an image for printing, you're gonna be using a much larger file size and image size to create this project, and then when y...”
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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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