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Course 3: Understanding Layers: Practice: let's do a still life

By David Vega Palacios , Graphic Designer

Graphic Designer. Lima, Peru.
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About the video: Practice: let's do a still life

Overview

“In this practice you will create a small still life with chess pieces, organizing the layers efficiently. You will use blending modes, folders and association methods between layers. This practice will be very useful, since it will be a base for you to handle more complex files.”

In this video lesson David Vega Palacios addresses the topic: Practice: let's do a still life, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 3: Understanding Layers. See how to use layers and their many functions.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this exercise. we'll create a still life with chess pieces applying what we've learned. Let's see it. We'll start by making our first photo composition. We'll use this background as a foundation and open additional elements needed for our composition. To begin. navigate to the Open menu. Select the knight and king files. then click Open. This will allow us to And as you'll see. the three files are already opened. By examining layers. we discover that each file consists of three distinct layers in total. To start. i'll organize these layers by placing them into a folder. You can achieve t...”

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David Vega Palacios

David Vega Palacios
By David Vega Palacios

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Peruvian-born David Vega is passionate about the entire creative and transformational process of a photo-compositional project. Founder of MIDAS studio, he dedicates his time to creating impossible images in a fast-paced, constantly evolving environment.

He has collaborated with brands like Toyota, Movistar, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Coca-Cola, Scotiabank, UPC, Oreo, Backus, Renault, Cartavio, Honda, Ford, and many other brands and advertising agencies. In 2019, he made the “200 Best Digital Artists” list from Lürzer’s Archive.


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Course 3: Understanding Layers

By David Vega Palacios
Graphic Designer. Lima, Peru.
Joined November 2019
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  • 7 students