Surrealistic Photomontage with Photoshop
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A course by Carlos Jimenez Varela , Photographic Composition Specialist
About the final project for: Surrealistic Photomontage with Photoshop
Surreal photomontage with Photoshop
“Well, we have reached the end of the course. As you can see, it has been a simple path in which we had to make many modifications. That is precisely the stimulating part of the process as it forces us to make important creative decisions for the sake of our ideas. That is what I love and I hope you do too. I urge you to continue using the paper system or why not? You invent your own system. The plan is to generate new ideas often and execute them in photomontages putting into practice the processes of preproduction, production and postproduction learned. In this way, you will exercise not only creativity, but also your technical and artistic criteria. Many things will not work out as well as we would like at the beginning, but it is a matter of practice. My grandmother used to say "nobody is born learned" and grandmothers are always right. It is very important to be patient and spend a lot of time. Do not forget to upload the step by step of your process, I will be in the forum to check your work, give you tips to improve them (if necessary) and answer your questions. I recommend you comment on the work of your colleagues because that is very enriching, it is always interesting to have different perspectives on the same idea. See you soon! ”
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“Well. thank you very much for reaching the end of the course. I already introduced myself; you learned about the influences on my work and we covered the whole process that includes surrealist conceptualization and different systems for generating ideas. Moreover. we made a preliminary selection of photographs and conducted a test through a draft digital draft. This helped us to make decisions. Based on the digital draft. we were compelled to take our photographs. for which we developed a preproduction process. We set up a set and took our photographs just as we needed them. Subsequently. w...”
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Course summary for: Surrealistic Photomontage with Photoshop
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Photography & Video -
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Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Digital Photography, Photo Retouching, Photographic Composition, Photography Post-production, Photomontage
Carlos Jimenez Varela
A course by Carlos Jimenez Varela
Carlos Jiménez is a Costa Rican native who has held the position of creative director at various advertising agencies for over fifteen years, although his academic background is in graphic design. Passionate about photomontage, he believes it to be a precise form of graphic expression able to bring us closer to both the dream world and the subconscious. He has worked for renowned studios like Sane Seven (UK) and Sagmeister & Walsh (New York).
Despite not considering himself an Adobe Photoshop virtuoso, he undoubtedly handles the program with an expert touch and has used it professionally for more than twenty years. He trusts that he must be constantly learning and updating his skills along with the software, and believes that others should strive to do the same.
His work has been published on various design blogs as well as in renowned magazines like Lürzer's Archive on more than one occasion. He has also exhibited his work in galleries in a number of countries around the word such as Spain, Morocco, France, Brazil, and more. He has participated in various exhibitions for international festivals and design biennales in Ecuador and Poland, to name just two. He currently has more than thirty national and international prizes and awards in creativity and design.
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