Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
Making Color Corrections Using Adjustment Layers
A course by Jessica Roux , Illustrator and Author
About the video: Making Color Corrections Using Adjustment Layers
Overview
“It’s time to refine and finesse our illustrations. In this lesson, I’ll go over how to use adjustment layers to make things really pop. I’ll also show how we can easily change the color of things to get a different mood or feeling.”
In this video lesson Jessica Roux addresses the topic: Making Color Corrections Using Adjustment Layers, which is part of the Domestika online course: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting. Transform a botanical pencil sketch into a digital illustration using the storytelling properties of color.
Partial transcription of the video
“Now that our project is nearly complete, it's time to finish it. In this lesson, I'll show you how to use adjustment layers to refine and finesse your final project. Let's do it. Once our artwork is looking complete, we might want to make a few further adjustments to get it looking really polished and professional. My favorite way of doing this is by using adjustment layers. you can find the adjustment layer palette right here. we always tend to start with brightness slash contrast. when you click it. Makes a new layer on top. And you can see you can adjust the brightness or the contrast he...”
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Course summary for: Natural Illustration with Digital Painting
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Drawing, Naturalistic Illustration, Realistic Drawing, Traditional illustration

Jessica Roux
A course by Jessica Roux
Jessica Roux is an American freelance illustrator and self-described plant and animal enthusiast. She has been drawing and painting since she was a child when her parents would set up easels in her backyard. She also spent a lot of time exploring the woods in North Carolina, which sparked her love of nature at an early age. Jessica went on to study illustration at the Savannah College of Art and Design and, after graduating, began working as a freelance illustrator, combining her love of illustration and nature.
Since then, Jessica’s designs have been transformed into everything from prints to stickers and cards, and she has illustrated various books, including one of her own, Floriography: An Illustrated Guide to the Victorian Language of Flowers. Her work has also appeared in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, as well as publications including The New Yorker and Taproot Magazine.
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