Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques
Digital Techniques 1
A course by Guilherme Karsten , Writer and Illustrator
About the video: Digital Techniques 1
Overview
“Now I'm going to show you how I use Photoshop in my creation process. ”
In this video lesson Guilherme Karsten addresses the topic: Digital Techniques 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques. Discover the techniques and digital tools to create unique visual narratives by composing an illustrated album that evokes the curiosity of young readers.
Partial transcription of the video
“digital techniques Now come with me and I'll show you how I use Photoshop in my creation. Come on? Now let's create our final illustration. I already have some things open. I have this text layer, which is what I'm going to use for this illustration. I left it in a font size 18. I also have my storyboard, which we did there at the beginning, with the scribbled scenes. I'm going to work on this scene here. I'm going to play my scene on Page 3. I can do a Transform with Ctrl + T or Command + T, to enlarge my image. I can also go to Edit, Free Transform. So I raise. With Shift and Alt, I can i...”
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Course summary for: Children's Picturebooks with Digital Techniques
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Children's Illustration, Drawing, Editorial Design, Narrative, Picturebook, Storyboard, Traditional illustration

Guilherme Karsten
A course by Guilherme Karsten
Writer and illustrator Guilherme Karsten produces all his pieces digitally from start to finish. For an illustration to be compelling, he believes it must contain a creatively bold message that ignites something deep within in the reader.
He received his degree in Publicity and Advertising with a major in Graphic Design and has published five works and illustrated over thirty books for other authors. He was awarded the esteemed Golden Plaque (Slovakia) and the Golden Pinwheel (China) and is also a two-time finalist for the Jabuti Award, the most prestigious Brazilian editorial prize there is.
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