How to Set Up Your Photoshop Documents: Composition
Tutorial Details
- Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
- Difficulty: Beginner
- Estimated Completion Time: 19 Minutes
Final Product What You'll Be Creating
Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.
Today’s tutorial Part 4: Composition and How to Set Up Your Photoshop Documents will showcase some excellent examples of well-composed digital art and will explain how you can set up your artwork to make it even more interesting. Let’s get started!
Citations
The following designs were showcased in this video.
- Atlantis
- The Seven Deadly Sins
- Pepper Robot II
- The Pumpkin King
- Three Kingdoms
- La Rochelle
- Into the Unknown
- Rain
- Tifa Lockhart
- Giant
- Frost Giant
- The Shepherd and the Giant
- The River of Tears
- Snowy Mountains
- Snowy Mountains
- Red Angell of Revenge
- Neurotic Indisposition
- Antecedent Terminus
- Lost Angel
- Mariposas
- Floating Palace
- Fallen Beauty
- Midnight Run
- Spring Palette
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Hi, thanks for your great jobs, i like your way of teaching. keep it up…
Fantastic as always! I got my Bamboo this week and it is giving me much joy. Thanks Martin for the great series and sharing your expertise. Looking forward to the next episode.
In the next tutorial, can we see a painting of a bare-chested guy with a large package?
I second that notion. lol
Well done again, much appreciated.
Nice tut!
Hi, I am planning to get a per 3 month subscription as premium, can I ask if the 3 months end. I wont be charged anymore right? also if I want to continue to a new subsccription ill just have to pay again right? please confirm.
Nice work with the CS5 mixer brush tool! I can never grasp how to use it, never works for me! D:
I saw this piece I really liked in the video, can’t find it in the list! Thumbnails would be helpful.
Also, I’m glad you guys finally touched on Digital Art for a session, will there be another more in depth session in the future?
Love your tutorials and the way you explain things. Please keep them coming-thanks!
Love your sessions. Keep it coming, what is the gap between each episode please, would like to know when the next is coming out
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Hi,
Martin..
I am a newbie for photoshop and your tutors always teaches me new ways to work.Thanks a lot for your video tutors.. on PSDTut+ , You are my favorite..
your yesimadesigner.com/ is great
Thanks again for your Good Work.. Keep it up
Hey Buddy,
Nice job you have done. great work
I really appreciate the graphic design tutorials you guys did till now, but… digital art?
Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak…that title sounds really great, but I really wanna think that the girl above is NOT made by you. It’s poorly made, seriously.
You talk about composition rules and you come up with that girl? The composition has absolutely no center of interest, my eyes are drawn to her belly button as much as to her face, and that is really wrong, for an expert…
The examples of composition you mentioned are not the best either. I’ve seen tons of better concept artworks that use light effects properly (to obtain a contrast), and that is the beauty of it.
In a composition you must have one third different than the other two thirds, (one third darker, and two thirds lighten, or the other way around, as I prefer it) and that is where you want a contrast, and adding your center of interest.
Your girl has everything detailed at the same amount, and that creates a poorly executed painting.
Again, I really appreciate what you guys do, but I think digital art is much more that knowing Photoshop and having some minimum freehand skills… And just think of it this way, the power of example is the best teaching method… and the example of the girl you gave us… is not exactly stunning.
I am an experienced artist of “the Old school” Everything from Etching to trompe l’oile. My favourite medium being pen and ink. What I want is to be able to do it my work with the creative suites available to me on my computer (just think of the space I’ll save!)
I also am very new to computers. I am not all that ‘computer literate’ having only had my Mac for a couple of months….and that is my problem. Once I can combine my experience of art with the familiarity of my OS, I know that there is nothing to stop me being as good as I can be!
Your ‘tuts’ show me the way……
Carry on Martin and thanx
Nice tips!
Thanks Martin!