Create an Infograph that will Make History
Retouching
A course by Fernando Gomez Baptista , Illustrator and Infographic Artist
Joined April 2014
Learn the infograph techniques used by National Geographic
- Spanish with subtitles in English
- 99% positive reviews (321)
- 4848 students
Joined April 2014
About the video: Retouching
Overview
“You have to apply the background and make a few tweaks in Photoshop to give the final touch to our graphic.”
In this video lesson Fernando Gomez Baptista addresses the topic: Retouching, which is part of the Domestika online course: Create an Infograph that will Make History. Learn the infograph techniques used by National Geographic.
Partial transcription of the video
“We have already placed the model photo in the Illustrator. And we already have an idea of how our chart is going to be. With which the next step would be start working in Photoshop. The different elements. The photo of the sculpture. The background, and place the secondary elements. For this we are going to go to Photoshop. This is the picture I took. The first thing I'm going to do is make a silhouetted figure. Because what I did was take a picture of the figure. And a picture of the background, right? I do the silhouetted. As you can see the silhouetted, what I usually do is use the erase...”
This transcript is automatically generated, so it may contain mistakes.
Course summary for: Create an Infograph that will Make History
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Areas
Digital Fabrication, Drawing, Infographics, Information Design, Photography Post-production, Sculpture
A course by Fernando Gomez Baptista
Fernando Baptista is the infographics senior editor at National Geographic in Washington.
He studied fine arts at the University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU and began his career as a freelance illustrator and designer before becoming a staff member at the newspaper El Correo in 1993. In 2007, he joined the team at National Geographic Magazine in Washington DC. He has taught classes as an associate professor at the University of Navarra and has run conferences and workshops in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
In 2012, he was named one of the five most influential infographic artists in the world during the last 20 years. He has won more than 125 awards from the likes of the SND, SPD, ÑH, Best American Infographic, and Malofiej, including the Peter Sullivan Award—the most prestigious award in infographics. In 2013, he was nominated for an Emmy for [i]Walking With Giants[i] in the category of New Approaches: Arts, Lifestyle, Culture. His illustrations have also been displayed in museums and featured in books.
- 99% positive reviews (321)
- 4848 students
- 18 lessons (2h 11m)
- 36 additional resources (27 files)
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- Audio: Spanish
- Spanish, English, Portuguese
- Level: Intermediate
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