Photoshop montage: the big city

Language: German

Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city"

Cut out motifs, enhance them stylistically and weave them together harmoniously - in this one-hour Photoshop training course, Marco Kolditz develops his artwork "The Big City" and you follow along step by step. Supplement your own editing processes with sophisticated methods of image montage and be inspired by the ideas and procedures of an accomplished Photoshop artist.

From idea and source image to artwork: How to develop a creative image montage in Photoshop
Get to know methods for cropping people, house facades and hair
Work more specifically with Photoshop tools, e.g. to create raster effects or curvatures
Learn from Photoshop pro Marco Kolditz how to combine individual image elements in an atmospheric way

Because your Photoshop skills can still grow: Treat them to an instructive and inspiring photo montage training course.

Details

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

Examples of use

Image montage and artwork with deformed houses in the background and a woman, created in Photoshop

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Learn methods of image montage and what is important in a composition.

Intro to the video training

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This is what awaits you in the video training "Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city""

You will learn how your Photoshop skills on the subject of image montage can grow even further.

Urban image editing in Photoshop: The metropolis

Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city" - crop 1 woman

In this video, video trainer Kolditz shows you how to crop the woman in the compositing, how to crop intricate details such as hair and how to prepare her and her reflection for use in the other videos.

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Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city" - 2 Prepare facade

In this video you will learn how to bend a formerly straight house wall, remove the final house facade from the background and prepare it for use in later videos for placement in compositing.

Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city" - Prepare 3 buildings

Watch this video to find out how to add an additional building to the skyscrapers in the background of the compositing, adjust it correctly in terms of perspective, create reflections and adjust the color of the building to match the rest of the image.

Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city" - 4 Place woman and building

After you have seen in the previous videos how the woman of the composing, the house facade and the skyscrapers were prepared for the composing, all elements are now placed in the composing and color-matched to each other.

Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city" - 5 style conversion

Finally, video trainer Marco Kolditz shows you in this video how he gives his composing "The Big City" an interesting graphic effect and atmospheric color look.

Details of the content

Learn Photoshop image montage methods for your artwork ideas
Tell stories with your image montages! In this one-hour training course, Marco Kolditz will show you how he goes about getting from the initial idea to the final artwork . The result is an oppressive cityscape that will captivate you like quicksand.

Prepare the montage: Cut out the person, hair and building facades

In order to combine the individual motifs into a new whole in a montage , you first have to crop them. But how do you go about it? After all, each element brings its own challenges. In the Photoshop training course, Marco Kolditz explains which cropping methods are suitable for a portrait of a woman and her hair as well as for building facades. Sharpen your eye for detail and learn how to delicately separate it from the background.

Photoshop know-how: perspective, deformation, reflections

Photoshop's tools set you no limits when it comes to image editing. Endless possibilities that - if you're not careful - can quickly degenerate into gimmicks. So stick to your image idea, just like Marco Kolditz works every little effect into his image montage. Among other things, the training involves carrying out deformations, creating reflections and correctly adjusting the perspective of elements. Procedures that you will also need again and again in your image montages.

Urban artwork with style - a harmonious overall picture

It is in the nature of things that the motifs in an image montage come from different image sources and usually bring with them a wide variety of light and color moods. To ensure that your image montages do not look like a patchwork, they must be skillfully placed and their color effects must be coordinated. What's more, additional graphic effects and a coherent color look make the individual motifs look as if they have been cast from a single mold. You can find out how to do all this and how to create a cool raster effect with Photoshop in the training.

More inspiration for your montages

Marco Kolditz presents further ideas and workflows in his tutorials on the photo montages "Chocolate", "The Sports Spirit" and "Black Widow", among others. Click on his trainer profile to fully immerse yourself in the world of Photoshop creativity.

What you'll learn in the Photoshop training course

Inspiration plus application knowledge - refine your Photoshop skills and apply what you've learned to your own image montages. You will get to know the following methods, among others:

Crop: How to remove a person, hair and house facades from the background
Deform: Create a creative effect by giving subjects a new shape
Perspective: How to correctly adjust the perspective of individual image elements
Reflections: How to create these important effects for a coherent appearance
Image montage: What you should pay attention to when placing the motifs
Image montage: How to color-coordinate the various elements
Look & style: Create an atmospheric color look and an interesting grid effect