A common question most new digital artists ask themselves before starting to create is “Photoshop or Illustrator?” and the answer depends on many factors. Adobe Photoshop works with pixels – Illustrator, on the other hand, with vectors – and may be better suited for artists who want to emulate traditional media such as pencil and paper or painting and canvas.

In this 6-course Basics you will learn, from the Mexican illustrator Gemma Román, how to use the tools focused on the illustration offered by Photoshop, familiarize yourself with artistic terms, learn how to make and edit simple illustrations and create some own resources.

You will begin by going through the software , from its installation and configuration, to the creation of a new document, discovering the workspace, the tools, the panel of layers and additional resources.

In the second course you will begin to discover the tools for sketching, drawing and drawing. You will know the preset brushes and create your own, and then draw with them. You will learn how to scan your handmade sketches to transfer them to Photoshop and discover the selection tools for editing your sketches and using vectors in Photoshop.

The third course will focus on color. You will go through the library of colors, the dropper and basic concepts such as tone, saturation, brightness and temperature. You will learn how to adjust and edit the color of your strokes, organize the values ​​and create color palettes.

The moment will come in the fourth year, of painting without getting your hands dirty, where you will discover the tools that Photoshop offers to fill your drawings with color: with the paint jar, gradients, strokes and textures, fusion modes and filters, in addition to the brushes for coloring manually.

The fifth course of this Basics will focus on the final touches of your illustrations. You will discover a number of tools such as focus, blur and finger tooling, learn to bring your illustrations to life through light, highlight important elements through color, and create seamless or seamless patterns.

You will end up learning how to optimize your files for the medium to which you will export them. You will see how to create a final art for professional or home printing, and you will learn how to export your illustrations for different digital formats, from a web or a PDF to an image for social networks.

Lang: Spanish with Eng Subs