Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

Cropping and Exporting

A course by Sam Gilbey
Artist. Bedford, United Kingdom.
Joined June 2021
, Artist

Bring your favorite movie character to life by learning how to paint a realistic digital portrait from scratch

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About the video: Cropping and Exporting

Overview

“How do you make sure your piece is ready to be shared online? In this lesson, we’ll look at slightly tweaking the image crop and saving a preview that can be used in a portfolio or on social media.”

In this video lesson Sam Gilbey addresses the topic: Cropping and Exporting, which is part of the Domestika online course: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop. Bring your favorite movie character to life by learning how to paint a realistic digital portrait from scratch.

Partial transcription of the video

“ Cropping and Exporting In this lesson, we'll look at taking our final piece, saving it as a print file in case we want to go and do that. Also, making it ready for social media or even a portfolio. Let's go. We'll do two things, save it as a print file first. Save As. I've got a folder here called "Exports". If I press Save a Copy, this gives us an extra option here, so I want to save a TIFF file. I don't need to send my prints as a Photoshop file. They don't need the layers. Sometimes you might have your artwork flat. If there was typography, it can be worth including that. Anything that...”

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Course summary for: Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

  • Level: Beginner
  • 100% positive reviews (39)
  • 1124 students
  • 4 units
  • 25 lessons (5h 38m)
  • 7 downloads
  • Category

    Illustration
  • Software

    Adobe Photoshop
  • Areas

    Digital Illustration, Drawing, Fine Arts, Illustration, Portrait Drawing, Portrait Illustration

Sam Gilbey

A course by Sam Gilbey

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Sam Gilbey is a British artist specializing in painterly pop culture portraits. He’s been drawing for as long as he can remember, and started illustrating professionally in 2004.

Throughout his career, he’s created officially-licensed artwork for films and series like The Avengers, BoJack Horseman, Jaws, Jurassic Park, and many more. He’s also collaborated with clients like adidas, Activision, Apple, Audi, The BBC, British Airways, Disney, Edgar Wright, Empire Magazine, Esquire, GQ, The Guardian, Lucasfilm, and many more.


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Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop. Illustration course by Sam Gilbey

Pop Culture Character Painting in Photoshop

A course by Sam Gilbey
Artist. Bedford, United Kingdom.
Joined June 2021
  • 100% positive reviews (39)
  • 1124 students