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Collage 101: The Workshop
A workshop in digital “mixed-media” fundamentals
$35.00
Instructor: Renee Pearson
Skill Level: Intermediate
Category: Digital Art
Platform: Mac & PC
Our self-paced workshops, like our classes, are complete courses composed of lesson videos, exercises and downloadable content. Workshops, however, are designed for you to work at your own pace. Therefore, the entire course content is available to you at the time of registration. Instructors are available for support in the workshop's forum.
Digital collage is an art form.
It’s the art of using a single medium, digital, to create the sense of a composition that uses a variety of traditional media. 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 workshop, 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 or Photoshop Elements, this workshop is designed for the intermediate digital crafter using either a Mac or PC. While you do not need to be proficient in these programs, you do need to be comfortable using them and understand the concept of Photoshop layers.
Suitable for users of Adobe Photoshop or Photoshop Elements, this workshop is designed for the intermediate digital crafter using either a Mac or PC. While you do not need to be proficient in these programs, you do need to be comfortable using them and understand the concept of Photoshop layers.
If you need an introductory workshop first, take a look at Renee's beginning workshop, Back to Basics.
Questions? Send them to Renee at renee@reneepearson.com.
Because we believe learning is a lifetime experience, when you register for any class at reneepearson.com, you have lifetime access to all video lessons and reference guides.
As a self-paced student, you will receive immediate access to all of the lessons as soon as you register. Class content is presented via video recordings, which you can access and watch at your leisure.
The curriculum is based on weekly lessons including video, pdf and other learning aids. The workshop is designed to gradually introduce new topics and skills, allowing you to master one skill set before moving on to the next.
Week 1: It's Elemental
Digital assemblage: Collage or montage?
Tools & techniques: Brushes and filters
Inspiration: It’s okay to borrow
Preparation: The “substrate”
Shape, texture & color
Deconstruction junction, breaking it down
Tools & techniques: Brushes and filters
Inspiration: It’s okay to borrow
Preparation: The “substrate”
Shape, texture & color
Deconstruction junction, breaking it down
Week 2: Build It
Getting started: To plan or not to plan?
Tools & techniques: Masking
Sources & resources: Pulling it together
Elements scavenger hunt
Prepping images & elements
Arranging the elements
Tools & techniques: Masking
Sources & resources: Pulling it together
Elements scavenger hunt
Prepping images & elements
Arranging the elements
Week 3: Collage It
Gestalt: The whole is greater than the sum of its parts
Tools & techniques: Blending modes & eraser tool
Blending from the substrate up
Creating digital “texture”
Type as a collage element
The art of finishing touches
Tools & techniques: Blending modes & eraser tool
Blending from the substrate up
Creating digital “texture”
Type as a collage element
The art of finishing touches
Software Requirements
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 or 9
Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 or CS5
Adobe Photoshop Elements 6, 7, 8 or 9
Adobe Photoshop CS3, CS4 or CS5
Class supplies include digital elements by Anna Aspnes of Designer Digitals
Samples do not represent class projects. Each student will make his or her own unique collages. Click the thumbnails to enlarge the images.
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.