Skill Level: Intermediate
$50.00
$40 early signup price
until midnight ET on March 3rd
Collage 101
Digital collage is all the rage. It’s the art of using a single medium, digital, to create the sense of a mixed-media work of art. While digital artists can learn a lot from the traditional collage process, we have a different set of tools that allow us to push the art form in a different direction.
Collage 101 isn’t about mimicking the mixed-media process or reproducing a digital collage that’s already been completed. It’s all about developing the skills and techniques to produce your own unique digital assemblages. You’ll learn how to deploy the following five tools in your digital tool box: Adjustment layers, Blending modes, Brushes, Filters & Masks. Throughout this 3-week course, Renee will have you diving into your own creative well to produce unique digital collages you’ll be proud to place in an album or hang on your walls.
How much do I need to know in advance?
Suitable for users of Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 7 or 8 and Photoshop CS3 and CS4, this course is designed for the intermediate digital crafter using either a Mac or PC. While you do not need to be proficient in any of these programs, you do need to be familiar with using them and understand the concept of layers. (If you've never used Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, take a look at our introductory class, Just the Basics, Ma'am" taught by Renee Pearson.)
Key Concepts
Tools & techniques: Brushes and filters
Inspiration: It’s okay to borrow
Preparation: The “substrate”
Shape, texture & color
Deconstruction junction, breaking it down
Tools & techniques: Masking
Sources & resources: Pulling it together
Elements scavenger hunt
Prepping images & elements
Arranging the elements
Tools & techniques: Blending modes & eraser tool
Blending from the substrate up
Creating digital “texture”
Type as a collage element
The art of finishing touches
Supplies? Fuggedaboudit!
All you need to have is:
Access to a PC or MAC computer with
Photoshop Elements 6, 7 or 8 or
Photoshop CS3 or CS4.
In addition to your course materials, you'll receive a variety of digital elements for your collages.
Finding inspiration in other artwork can help to jumpstart your own creative process.
When you arrange digital elements and images on a page, you're in essence creating a collage.
The tools that make it all happen are inside Photoshop and Photoshop Elements. In Collage 101, you'll become very familiar with brushes, blending modes, filters and adjustment layers.