Moving Image Creation in Photoshop
Water element
A course by Diogo Vieira , Creative Retoucher
About the video: Water element
Overview
“Now I'm going to talk about the graphics that make up water and about reflection, specular light and shadow, all of which working with layers inside Photoshop.”
In this video lesson Diogo Vieira addresses the topic: Water element, 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
“Water element In this class, I'll teach you the graphics that make up water, the specular light, the reflection, the shadow, and how to layer this within Photoshop so that you have full control. For this class, I have separated some images here. I'm going to show you how to make this water division in a richer way. Here I got two images. one you can see that I can see part of the surface of the water, seeing from the bottom up. And in the other image I can see the surface part of the water from top to bottom. So I have two images with opposite views in that sense. I also have an image of th...”
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Course summary for: Moving Image Creation in Photoshop
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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
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.
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