Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic
Digital retouch
A course by Sol Díaz Castillo , Artist and Illustrator
Joined June 2020
Joined June 2020
About the video: Digital retouch
Overview
“In this lesson I will teach you how to make digital adjustments and adjustments to the image to be able to share it on different social networks. To do this, I will give you advice about formats and resolutions and I will show you how I use, in this case, Adobe Photoshop to clean and prepare the comic to be published.”
In this video lesson Sol Díaz Castillo addresses the topic: Digital retouch, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic. Explore your inner world to create and share illustrated stories ranging from the personal to the universal.
Partial transcription of the video
“Digital retouch Will I be too in love? In this lesson we are going to digitize and we are going to correct anything in Photoshop that we want to clean or change our vignette. The first thing I do is open Photoshop and from here open the previously digitized files. Here are the five stories we made and I'll open this one first. I expand and then broken. I always digitize these files, let's see here, at 600 DPI. I usually digitize them at 300, because it is a suitable resolution to be able to print them in case you wanted to print. As a small job, I try to make it 300 upwards. If I wanted to ...”
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Course summary for: Creating an Autobiographical Webcomic
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Comic, Drawing, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storyboard, Storytelling, Traditional illustration, Writing
Sol Díaz Castillo
A course by Sol Díaz Castillo
Sol Díaz started studying graphic design but her professional life led her to drawing and illustration shortly after, along with her personal approach to understanding and transforming the world around her. When she finished university, she published her first creations, and now, she has almost fifteen books published in her name, with characters that go from humor to fantasy, always with an observant eye.
She has also done illustration work for editorials with different authors and has explored areas such as animation, live drawing with music, magazine editing, podcast creation, and more. For Sol, drawing is a tool to tell stories and build characters that reflect your ideas, fears, convictions, and perspective on the world around you.
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