Photographic Artwork for Editorial Covers

Creating Lettering

A course by Party of One Studio , Creative Studio

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154 students

Audio: English

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About the video: Creating Lettering

Overview

“It's time to incorporate the typography! We will draw custom letters over the image and clean up the letterforms. We will also explore alternate scales and styles for the letters. ”

In this video lesson Party of One Studio addresses the topic: Creating Lettering, which is part of the Domestika online course: Photographic Artwork for Editorial Covers. Blur the lines between photography and illustration to create dynamic editorial compositions through set design, prop styling, and typography.

Partial transcription of the video

“Creating Lettering Now we have all of our digital edits and retouching complete. Now we'll sketch our lettering and bring it into our final composition in Photoshop. Here I have my file open. I'm starting off with the final retouched image that Nicole should have worked on in the last unit, and I believe she wrapped that up and saved it as a JPEG. I have just brought that Full Size Image into my new lettering file, and that's the base layer. If you are doing this all in one file, that is totally fine. Just because we are two people, it was a little easier for us to split this up into a seco...”

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Course summary for: Photographic Artwork for Editorial Covers

Level: Beginner
100% positive reviews (1)
154 students
4 units
14 lessons (2h 9m)
4 downloads

Category
Photography & Video
Software
Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Lightroom, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Art Direction, Graphic Design, Photographic Composition, Studio Photography

Party of One Studio

A course by Party of One Studio

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Creative Studio

Party of One is a creative studio in Brooklyn, New York, led by Melissa Deckert and Nicole Licht. They met while working as in-house designers at Etsy and, in 2018, decided to combine their experience and start their own studio specializing in story-driven visuals for brands, products, and publications.

Melissa and Nicole work closely with clients on a wide range of projects—from set design and visual campaigns, to brand identities, and editorial illustrations. Their commercial clients include Otherland, Sunwink, and Columbia University, and they’ve also created editorial cover artwork for The New York Times, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal.