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Webinar Archive: Fantastic Photo-Illustration: Retouching, Masking & Compositing with Lee Varis

10/16/2013 1:00pm EDT  


Mastery of Adobe Photoshop is an essential step in developing skills for photo-illustration and is a foundation for exploring the outer limits of fantasy, surrealism, and visual symbolism.  X-Rite Coloratti Lee Varis will examine photo-retouching and illustration techniques in this webinar and emphasize the necessity of working on a calibrated and profiled monitor. You will see how Lee assembles different photo-illustration projects and be guided, step-by-step, to learn more advanced techniques including:

  • Masking and transparency effects
  • Smoke and fire effects
  • Glows, halos, and light beams
  • Other image compositing secrets

Along the way, you will learn about specific features of Photoshop like:

  • Layer masks, Groups, and Blending Modes
  • The Refine Edge dialog
  • Editing masks with the Dodge & Burn, plus Blur tools
  • Displacement maps & distortion effects
  • And much, much more…

Watch this unique webinar with Coloratti Lee Varis!  Learn more about Lee at Varis Photomedia




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