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Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Finalizing the Image - color editing and export

A course by Joel Santana , Concept Artist and Character Designer

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99% positive reviews (1.4K)

31,050 students

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About the video: Finalizing the Image - color editing and export

Overview

“Final color adjustments for the image. We’ll take a look at “color lookup” and a few other finishing touches. Also exporting options process. We’re going to talk about converting to CMYK if we want to print posters and also talk about saving for web if we want to post on instagram or our portfolio sites.”

In this video lesson Joel Santana addresses the topic: Finalizing the Image - color editing and export, which is part of the Domestika online course: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light. Learn how to breathe life into a character sketch through color and light with Adobe Photoshop.

Partial transcription of the video

“In this lesson, we're going to talk about some color editing and then some final effects for your image. We're also going to talk about exporting. So you have to think about, do you want to export this for print, like for a poster? Or do you want to export this for the web? So I'm going to go over a few little tips and things that you can kind of take into consideration depending on how you want to use the final image. And we'll do that in this lesson. Just one or two more things before we flatten this image is I'm in my new background. I've kind of consolidated all those layers that I had....”

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Course summary for: Digital Painting for Characters: Color and Light

Level: Beginner
99% positive reviews (1401)
31050 students
4 units
18 lessons (2h 49m)
6 downloads

Category
Illustration
Software
Adobe Photoshop
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Digital Painting, Traditional illustration

Joel Santana

A course by Joel Santana

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Concept Artist and Character Designer

Joel Santana is a character designer and illustrator, a collector of hats, and a married father with two kids. Throughout his career, he's done freelance work for Champs Sports, Walt Disney World Orlando, and other major clients. Joel's been published in the Communication Arts Illustration Annual 2016 and a full page in 2017, MTVnews.com and Huffington Post UK. He's also worked for in-house teams and advertising agencies creating illustrations for advertising, as well as packaging and toys.

Aside from creating, Joel has also mentored junior artists and co-workers, taught workshops, given talks to art students at local universities, reviewed products for Wacom, and participated in the local AIGA group speaking to young creatives.