Composing in Photoshop for beginners: Black widow

Watch out! This composing tutorial could swallow you up! In around 50 minutes, Marco Kolditz transforms a shot of a lovely yet mysterious lady into a captivating composition with the help of Photoshop. It's bittersweet how the black widow reaches for you at the end! Follow the editing process from the initial image to cropping the subject and creating the spider legs to the final image look.

Follow a complete compositing process in Photoshop from the initial image to the final image look.
This allows you to use editing techniques such as cropping, lighting effects and graphic styles in a targeted manner.
Learn how to work with masks, set a light spot and use different layer styles
Set the motif free, sketch and paint the spider legs, add the color look.
Use the methods and techniques easily in your own workflow afterwards.

Creative image montage using a concrete example - this is how you tell the story of the Black Widow with your photos.

Details

Usable with:
content: 1 h Video training
Licence: private and commercial Rights of use
Bonus: including working material

Intro to the video tutorial

free of charge

What you can expect from this training

Take a look at how trainer Marco Kolditz goes about it in his Photoshop tutorial.

The Black Widow

Compositing in Photoshop for beginners: Black widow - 1 Introduction and cropping

In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz explains his basic idea for the image and shows you a way to remove the model of the original image from the background.

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Compositing in Photoshop for beginners: Black widow - sketching 2 spider legs

Before designing the Black Widow's spider legs, trainer Marco Kolditz sketches out different variations and then uses them as a guide.

Compositing in Photoshop for beginners: Black widow - painting 3 legs into the image

The sketch of the spider legs is ready. In this video, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you how he uses a customized graphic style to draw the spider legs directly into the picture in an eerily beautiful way.

Compositing in Photoshop for beginners: Black widow - 4 color looks and final steps

At the end of the video training, Marco Kolditz carries out a few final steps to further adjust the look of the image and round it off.

Details of the content

Photoshop compositing from cropping to lighting effects
The black widow is notorious for its tendency to eat its mate after mating. She knows how to hide her menacing nature behind alluring charm, and so the male staggers unsuspectingly from happiness to death ... This is the thematic framework of this Photoshop tutorial - and after the course you will be able to use it in your pictures to tell your own black widow stories.

Learn beginner techniques for your own composing

In the more than 50 minutes of the video training, you will watch digital artist Marco Kolditz work over his shoulder and learn from the thought processes of a professional. First, the woman in the original image is removed from the background by masking. The next step is to sketch the spider legs and paint them using the graphic style provided. The legs should look as organic as possible.

Finally, the components are further merged together with additional edits, which leads to the subsequent composing . A spotlight creates an atmospheric lighting effect, a color picker is used to create a harmonious color look and a soft noise finally rounds off the composition.

What will this Photoshop composing tutorial for beginners teach you?

Tell stories with your photos! Using the example of the Black Widow, you will learn how to develop a convincing image from an idea. At the same time, you will learn various image editing techniques to create a coherent composition with the help of Photoshop .