Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
Final Adjustments
A course by Mary Cagnin , Illustrator
About the video: Final Adjustments
Overview
“In this class, I'll show you how I make final adjustments to my illustration, correcting colors, brightness and contrast, as well as color temperature.”
In this video lesson Mary Cagnin addresses the topic: Final Adjustments, which is part of the Domestika online course: Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions. Learn to combine digital art and hand-drawn textures to create an impactful illustration that tells an original story.
Partial transcription of the video
“Final adjustments In this class, we will make adjustments to color, temperature, brightness and contrast, to finish our project. Now, let's start adding some effects, to slightly change the color tones and make some final adjustments to this image. I wanted to make this image a little more vintage. I will start by adding a layer that I will fill with a dark orange hue, almost brown. I'm going to choose Hue mode and I'm going to decrease it a little bit the Fill and Opacity to plus or minus 50%, 45%, 50%. You have already seen that the color tone breaks down, they get a little less saturated...”
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Course summary for: Illustration in Photoshop: Create Striking Compositions
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Design, Digital Painting, Narrative, Traditional illustration

Mary Cagnin
A course by Mary Cagnin
Mariana Cagnin studied visual arts at São Paulo State University (UNESP) and has been an illustrator and comic artist for over a decade. She has illustrated books and magazines for publishing houses including Globo, Abril, and MOL and is also the author of the Vidas Imperfeitas comics as well as the award-winning Black Silence and Bittersweet. Since 2013, she has been creating her own social media content and has a YouTube channel with over 300K subscribers to date.
She has also given in-person and online courses for a variety of Brazilian institutions, including the private nonprofit SESC and arts centers, in which she shared her own teaching methods. In 2017, she received a Globo award for best theme design (Casa & Jardim) and was invited by the Brazilian embassy to participate in the Gothenburg Book Fair in Sweden.
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