Adobe Photoshop for Beginners
Course 5: Still Life Secrets: Using Light, Focus and Blur to Add Depth
By Harrison Kuykendall , Digital Artist
Joined February 2020
Joined February 2020
About the video: Using Light, Focus and Blur to Add Depth
Overview
“In this unit, we’ll learn how to create the illusion of depth within a 2D image. Using adjustment layers we will make images in the foreground appear brighter and more in focus than images in the background. Then we will use smart objects and blurring to enhance this depth effect.”
In this video lesson Harrison Kuykendall addresses the topic: Using Light, Focus and Blur to Add Depth, which is part of the Domestika online course: Course 5: Still Life Secrets. Retouching and combining still images.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this unit, we'll learn how to create the illusion of depth within a 2D image. Using adjustment layers will make objects in the foreground lighter and objects in the background darker. We'll then use focus and blur to enhance this effect. Let's take a look at how we can do this. So now that we've recreated the shadow and got much cleaner edge, I want to go ahead and add some more of these bottles to the image and maybe make it look like there's two bottles behind going back in space. So the first thing I want to do is I'm just going to put these into folders. We'll call this front bottle....”
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Course summary for: Course 5: Still Life Secrets
Harrison Kuykendall
By Harrison Kuykendall
Harrison Kuykendall is a digital artist living in New York City who specializes in creative retouching and design using Adobe Photoshop. He is the owner and founder of HE–Studios, a Brooklyn based post-production studio whose client list includes Target, Stella Artois, Lady Gaga’s Haus Labs, Aveeno, Champion, and Diane von Furstenberg.
Harrison and his studio are focused on retouching stills and creating animations for large scale global advertising campaigns that can be seen on billboards and screens around the world. When he’s not experimenting in Photoshop or the rest of the Adobe Creative Suite, you can find him relaxing with his three cats or creating music for his synthpop band BHuman.
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