Taking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop
Pluralsight
Course Summary
In this tutorial we'll learn how to turn a good digital painting into a great digital painting using simple techniques you can use over and over again in Photoshop. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
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Course Description
In this tutorial we'll learn how to turn a good digital painting into a great digital painting using simple techniques you can use over and over again in Photoshop. Throughout these lessons we will take a look at a variety of techniques to make any image into portfolio gold! We will take a decent digital painting and transform it into a more dynamic, story-packed image with little more than a few simple steps and some elbow grease. From this tutorial, you'll soon be able to apply the same essential tips to your own illustrations in no time at all. Software required: Photoshop CS5.
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Course Syllabus
Introduction and Project Overview- 1m 5s
—Introduction and Project Overview 1m 5sTaking Your Digital Paintings to the Next Level in Photoshop- 7h 50m
—A More Dynamic View 14m 23s
—Adding a Story to the Image 12m 30s
—Continuing to Add a Story to the Image 13m 0s
—Finishing Adding a Story to the Image 13m 22s
—Selecting Our Story 13m 26s
—Sketching Soldiers 11m 23s
—Beginning to Build a Background 16m 7s
—Tweaking the Composition 15m 29s
—Adding a Second Light Source 13m 52s
—Adding the Queen's Minions 14m 13s
—Blocking in Details 12m 41s
—Adding Dead Soldiers Arm and Hand 13m 45s
—Finishing the Soldiers Hand 13m 6s
—Remolding the Skyline 13m 5s
—Detailing the Buildings 15m 18s
—Creating a More Dynamic Sky 14m 42s
—Detailing the Soldier Fighting the Minion 13m 6s
—Looking at the Net-launcher 11m 29s
—Working on the Sergeant's Gun 10m 22s
—Final Level of Detail to the Buildings 9m 57s
—Making Metal on a Shotgun Look Great 10m 1s
—Filling in the Skyline 11m 48s
—Retouching Lighting Throughout the Piece 9m 17s
—Blending Our Characters into the Background 7m 18s
—Placing Extreme Foreground Objects 13m 22s
—Continuing Extreme Foreground Objects 12m 5s
—Lighting Foreground Objects 10m 31s
—Creating Black Ash 13m 32s
—More on Black Ash 11m 21s
—Adding Fire Sparks 15m 7s
—Making Adjustments 13m 54s
—Detailing the Queen 16m 13s
—Painting an Engraved Texture 13m 12s
—Finishing the Engraved Texture 12m 12s
—Repainting the Queen's Original Hands 10m 4s
—Finishing the Queen's New Hands 10m 26s
—Final Touches on Our Image 14m 15s
