Digital Collage for Editorials
The first cut
A course by Israel GV , Editorial Designer and Illustrator
About the video: The first cut
Overview
“Here we will see the basic tools of clipping in photoshop and prepare a first file on illustrator. ”
In this video lesson Israel GV addresses the topic: The first cut, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Collage for Editorials. Create dynamic illustrations for magazines, newspapers and other publications.
Partial transcription of the video
“In this lesson, we will see three ways to crop in Photoshop: the loop, by channels and the pen. And then, we will make our composition in Illustrator. Let's see. Before I begin, I would like to show you a folder, which you will be able to download, where I made a previous selection of some images, some are from my file, others are from secure download sources, royalty free, and others that are in the public domain. So, here we will be able to check some of the folders. We will see them a little later. But well, right now, for the example of the cut, I chose some of them. One of the first wa...”
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Course summary for: Digital Collage for Editorials
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Category
Design, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Collage, Digital Illustration, Editorial Illustration, Graphic Design

Israel GV
A course by Israel GV
Israel García Vargas is a designer and expert in visual communication who studied graphic design at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City. As an editorial designer, he has worked with a variety of Mexican magazines, most notably Picnic, where he spent seven years as a graphic editor.
As an illustrator, he has collaborated with a broad range of international magazines and brands like Wired, Texas Monthly, Atlanta, Entrepreneur, Fast Company, The Atlantic, Adidas, T brand Studio from The New York Times, and Metaleap Creative, as well as Mexican publications such as Tierra Adentro, Expansión, Accent, and Chilango. He is also a partner and the graphic editor at La Peste, a free magazine covering literature, illustration, and photography.
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