Moving Image Creation in Photoshop

Mastering the Curves tool

A course by Diogo Vieira , Creative Retoucher

96% positive reviews (50)

724 students

Audio: Portuguese

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About the video: Mastering the Curves tool

Overview

“Do you know how to use the "Curves" tool? In this class, I'm going to show you how to become a master when working with this tool.”

In this video lesson Diogo Vieira addresses the topic: Mastering the Curves tool, which is part of the Domestika online course: Moving Image Creation in Photoshop. Explore Photoshop's tools to create moving compositions including water, fire, clouds, smoke, and explosions.

Partial transcription of the video

“Mastering the Curves tool In this class, I'll show you the Curves tool and teach how to work with color channels to achieve results accurately. To use the Curves tool, we need to come here in Adjustment Layer, access Curves. Here is the best way to work with curves, because at any time, we can disable and enable. As you all know, we can click in the middle of the curve, pull up and lighten or pull down and darken. But the Curves tool is much richer. Let's unravel the mystery behind this. Let's leave Input and Output at 127 because it's going to be exactly in the center of our diagonal line....”

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Course summary for: Moving Image Creation in Photoshop

Level: Beginner
96% positive reviews (50)
724 students
4 units
16 lessons (3h 16m)
11 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Fine-Art Photography, Photo Retouching, Photographic Composition, Photography, Photography Post-production, Photomontage, VFX

Diogo Vieira

A course by Diogo Vieira

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Creative Retoucher

Diogo Vieira is a creative retoucher currently living in São Paulo. He started his professional journey in computer graphics, a field where he now has over 18 years' experience. He fell in love with creating images and has been specializing in composing visual pieces in Photoshop for more than 12 years. In his pieces he explores color theory, matte painting, digital retouching, and photographic composition.

He has worked on projects for big names including Toyota, iFood, Motorola, and Philips, always with a firm commitment to producing high-quality images with maximum visual impact.