Ten by Fotolia - Season 2 - Gustavo brigante - Tutorial

Hi, I'm Gustavo Brigante I'm the first artist of the Fotolia Ten project this year. I will now show you the work I did for this project Through the creation I made for Fotolia TEN and due to the fact that I had a free theme to choose from and the chance to work on something of my interest, I thought that choosing a theme about an invitation to work would be interesting. I wanted to be able to integrate it within a world that is associated with more frivolous things. The construction of the image started from a clearly seen central axis in which there is a scene, and all the rest grew around it -- almost in an organic way, just like a plant that grew from a seed into the sides, forward and backwards. The process starts almost like every other process, on paper and not on computer. Second step after working fast on the paper sketch was to create the necessary shapes bringing some objects from Illustrator, ginving them a 3D shape, and making the main composition and most of the objects with this tool. In particular in the sketch, I planned to have three people in the central scene. Two of which I wanted to be women and have certain characteristics and colors, for example in their clothes or way they dressed. It is here where I searched on Fotolia for photos with that type of characteristic, and after a short period of time I found perfectly what could fit with not only the style but all the general aesthetics that I needed in order to show the idea. But I needed one more picture for the central part and had specific things in mind for the details and objects that the person was going to wear. So I spoke with the photographer, went to his studio and did that part for Fotolia's TEN project. Once I got the RAW images from the photographer, I imported them into Photoshop, and in Camera RAW and made some basic adjustments, mostly on tones, some adjustment of shadows and exposure that this RAW format allowed without damaging the image. This is a very important step so that the image will not look as if it's coming from an external source and looks like it was created in the same way as the environment. The most technical process is when we enter 3D where we have the shapes we want to use, - some from libraries and others we export - all to which we give volume via different tools like, for example, "Extrude". Once we have all the objects and all the composition in 3D ready, and before the final render takes place, it is important that the whole scene in 3D is prepared correctly so I can work on it later in Photoshop. What is necessary in order to work with each individual object or group of objects later is to assign it an alpha channel to these elements in order to have the pre-selection ready, without having to select the objects manually in Photoshop later. we are going to divide the images in layers. We are going to order them in a way that they go from front to back so that we can use different techniques in between these layers, for example, level layers and adjust layers. For instance, those elements that are more in the back, will always have a bigger distance and will have values in black become smaller. These sort of details we must consider at the moment of editing and composing in 3D when using Photoshop. Thank you for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it, and will download and enjoy the PSD file available on the website.