Create Digital Art in Your Style
Hands-On: Preparing Assets in Photoshop 1
A course by Magdiel Lopez , Designer and Digital artist
About the video: Hands-On: Preparing Assets in Photoshop 1
Overview
“Let's dive into Photoshop and Illustrator to start building the structure of the design by placing and arranging assets. ”
In this video lesson Magdiel Lopez addresses the topic: Hands-On: Preparing Assets in Photoshop 1, which is part of the Domestika online course: Create Digital Art in Your Style. Deepen your understanding of digital art and learn how to create your own original artwork from scratch with expert guidance..
Partial transcription of the video
“All right, in this lesson, we're going to start dropping our assets instead of Photoshop and Illustrator. To start building the structure of our final project. We're gonna start already messing around with the composition, placing things in place, making everything that we need to do. So I have this rule that I try to follow which is 80-20. 80-20 rule means that we're going to spend the first 20% So, less time working on 80% of the work. So we're going to put a lot of effort into going fast, Because a lot of this work at the beginning is positioning things and all that. and then using the f...”
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Course summary for: Create Digital Art in Your Style
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Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop -
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Digital Design, Digital Illustration, Graphic Design, Poster Design

Magdiel Lopez
A course by Magdiel Lopez
Born in Havana, Cuba, Magdiel Lopez grew up surrounded by a vibrant culture that shaped his bold sense of color, art, and design. At fifteen, he moved to the United States seeking freedom and new opportunities, where he spent a decade refining his craft privately.
His project A Poster A Day—a challenge to create and share one artwork every day for a year—brought him global recognition and collaborations with brands like Apple, Nike, Absolut Vodka, MTV, and Warner Brothers. Today, Magdiel lives in Dallas, Texas, where he runs his creative agency, Belmont Creative, and serves as a design mentor in partnership with Adobe.
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