Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing

A course by Andres Marti , Artist and Designer

Artist and Designer. Bogota, Colombia.
Joined April 2019

Explore collage and digital techniques to transform your images into one-of-a-kind artistic portraits using Photoshop and Camera Raw

98% positive reviews (45)
1,013 students
Audio: Spanish
Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch

Explore collage and digital techniques to transform your images into one-of-a-kind artistic portraits using Photoshop and Camera Raw

Want to create artistic and original photographic portraits? The key is in the editing and in capturing your vision. In this online course, artist and designer Andrés Marti takes you through his creative process from beginning to end, producing portraits that are full of emotion and a surreal, pictorial aesthetic.

Learn the basics of digital collage and how to apply them to a portrait. See how to edit your photograph by reviewing various techniques and look at how to take your image to an even more artistic dimension.

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What will you learn in this online course?

17 lessons & 14 downloads

Collage bases
12 minutes, 51 seconds
Mood board
9 minutes, 43 seconds
Reveal the image in Camera Raw
4 minutes, 41 seconds
Mannerism in the photo
8 minutes, 16 seconds
Work the skin and the look 1
14 minutes, 36 seconds
  • 98% positive reviews (45)
  • 1,013 students
  • 17 lessons (2h 56m)
  • 14 additional resources (4 files)
  • Online and at your own pace
  • Available on the app
  • Audio: Spanish
  • Spanish · English · Portuguese · German · French · Italian · Polish · Dutch
  • Level: Beginner
  • Unlimited access forever

What is this course's project?

Create a photographic portrait using digital collage and editing tools to achieve an artistic pictorial finish.

Projects by course students

Who is this online course for?

Photographers, illustrators, graphic designers, and in general, anyone interested in photography as an art form.

Requirements and materials

To take this course you need a basic to intermediate knowledge of both Photoshop and Camera Raw. As for tools, you need:


    ⦁ A computer
    ⦁ A graphics tablet
    ⦁ Adobe Photoshop
    ⦁ Adobe Camera Raw


Reviews

1,013 Students
45 Reviews
98% Positive ratings

Andres Marti

A course by Andres Marti

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Artist and Designer

Andrés Marti is a Colombian artist and designer, cofounder and director of Comes Cake Image Lab, art director of Click Clack Hotel and drag queen from the Mis Amigas Drag collective.

In his portraits, in which collage features heavily, he mixes makeup with post-production, natural light with artificial, and real elements with digital ones. With his photographic project Otredad, he seeks to find himself by portraying other people in a melancholic and surrealist way.

His work has been exhibited in different spaces and platforms in Bogota, London, Tokyo, and Madrid.


Content

  • U1

    Introduction

    • About Me
    • Influences
  • U2

    Lay the foundations

    • Collage bases
    • Mood board
    • Selection of ingredients: criteria
  • U3

    Image editing

    • Reveal the image in Camera Raw
    • Mannerism in the photo
    • Work the skin and the look 1
    • Work the skin and the look 2
  • U4

    Photo montage

    • Trim and Background 1
    • Trim and Background 2
    • Cut and play 1
    • Trim and play 2
    • Paint, color, light and shadow 1
    • Paint, color, light and shadow 2
  • U5

    Last details

    • Review, focus and export
    • How to share your work
  • FP

    Final project

    • Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing

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Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing. Photography, and Video course by Andres Marti

Artistic Portraits: Explore Digital Photo Editing

A course by Andres Marti
Artist and Designer. Bogota, Colombia.
Joined April 2019
  • 98% positive reviews (45)
  • 1,013 students