Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
Print formats
A course by Alessia Trunfio , Illustrator
About the video: Print formats
Overview
“Now I'll show you the difference between the two most used print formats: RGB and CMYK. I'll also show you a trick on how to switch between formats without losing too many effects! ”
In this video lesson Alessia Trunfio addresses the topic: Print formats, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters. Learn to design expressive characters in Photoshop by focusing on traits, poses, framing, composition, color, and shading.
Partial transcription of the video
“Print formats In this lesson, I'll explain the differences to you between the two print formats RGB and cyan magenta and how to switch between formats without losing too many effects. Have you ever had to print an illustration that you made and when you printed it the colors were less bright and bright compared to the screen version? It happens because the color acts differently between print and screen. These two acronyms serve to distinguish two types of information about how color affects the file we're working on. RGB is the acronym which stands for Red, Green and Blue and it is a color...”
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Course summary for: Digital Illustration for Expressive Characters
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Drawing, Digital Illustration

Alessia Trunfio
A course by Alessia Trunfio
Alessia Trunfio is an illustrator who specializes in children's books. Her love of drawing as a child motivated her to pursue the arts in college, studying a degree in film, followed by an animation course at the Scuola Internazionale di Comics in Rome. Soon after, she started working at an animation studio as a background artist.
Thanks to sharing her fanart and other works on platforms like Behance, she built a reputation and found success as an illustrator, turning it into a full-blown career. Over the years, she's collaborated on illustration and book cover projects with some of the biggest names in publishing, including Bloomsbury, Scholastic, Capstone, Penguin Random House, and Simon & Schuster.
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