Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing
Work the skin and the look 2
A course by Andres Marti , Artist and Designer
Joined April 2019
About the video: Work the skin and the look 2
Overview
“In this lesson, you will continue learning how to work with the skin and the gaze using the bases of hyper-realistic digital paintings.”
In this video lesson Andres Marti addresses the topic: Work the skin and the look 2, which is part of the Domestika online course: Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing. Explore collage and digital techniques to transform your images into one-of-a-kind artistic portraits using Photoshop and Camera Raw.
Partial transcription of the video
“Work the skin and the look The next step is the look. To work on our gaze, we are going to start working with the Dodge and Burn tool. This same tool helps us to give volume to the body. So let's do again Layer, New, Layer, with Overlay with 50% gray. Let's put lights on it. We are going to mark the brightness that the look already has and also that has the model itself. By marking them, it gives us that feeling of hyperreality or hyperrealistic painting that takes this reality to the extreme. In the lighting part we are going to accentuate the brightness that the photo already gives us, bu...”
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Course summary for: Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing
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Areas
Digital Photography, Fine-Art Photography, Photo Retouching, Photographic Lighting, Photography Post-production, Portrait Photography

Andres Marti
A course by Andres Marti
Andrés Marti is a Colombian artist and designer, cofounder and director of Comes Cake Image Lab, art director of Click Clack Hotel and drag queen from the Mis Amigas Drag collective.
In his portraits, in which collage features heavily, he mixes makeup with post-production, natural light with artificial, and real elements with digital ones. With his photographic project Otredad, he seeks to find himself by portraying other people in a melancholic and surrealist way.
His work has been exhibited in different spaces and platforms in Bogota, London, Tokyo, and Madrid.
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