All language subtitles for 08 - Ejercicios de clipping y fragmentación. Parte 1.eng

As you saw, the Brief is a
great help for the conceptual path

of our project, what
we will do right now

It is to start
working on the composition.

We will start with
basic clipping exercises

and fragmentation to start composing.

There is no greater science
nor is it complicated to explore

these tools, how to trim

It depends on the style of each
one and what you want to communicate

with his way of composing,
what interests me is more

to crop, understand
what an image can tell

from the cut, how
starting from two or three

cuts begin to form our composition

and how to get an image out
of context by silhouetting it

Can you tell me another
story. I have my blank canvas here,

I know you can generate
some panic see this space

without occupying, gives some
anxiety, I do not use or sketches

nor any physical scheme
when I compose an image.

As I already have a Brief and
some clear concepts of what to do

I like from there to have a
more or less clear concept

on the head and on the
other hand let random and image

Somehow it is built on the road.

Starting from the
Brief I took some keywords

that I like to use to
search for elements, images,

clippings, key objects
that help me get started

to throw ideas and
compose. We have some here,

I know that I will work
absinthe and work around

of this mystical world a
little botanical of this liquor,

we have words like green
fairy, young woman, butterfly,

insect, ornaments,
wormwood, sky, death, hell, fungi,

mystic, poison, snakes,
botanist, cup, spoon ...

As you can see, they are words
that already start to suggest images

or a way to work. I
want you to understand

that there is no specific
work scheme in the collage,

it's not that I open the
file, cut out the elements,

make them up at once,
apply color in that order

and in the end put a
background. Everything is mixing a little

at the time For the
purposes of the lesson I will try

that we focus only
on the clipping part

and initial composition,
based on this list I downloaded

images that I think
could be used to make

our project, in my case the absinthe,

You can clearly
illustrate any product,

a box of chocolates, a
beer, whatever they want.

The idea is that we both
follow a path, but each one

to propose a different idea so
that we don't finish the course

With the same project.
We have here some images

interesting, I'm interested in
proposing the fairy as a figure

central, we select some
interesting here that I see

and we will drag them to
Photoshop. to get started

with the tools we can
start with the Polygonal Lasso,

It is my favorite tool. It
gives me maneuverability,

It allows me to work
more rugged, organic ways,

and manipulate them easily.
Another tool inside the Loop

it's normal, better use
it with the digital pen,

It allows me to draw a
line and select what I want.

But as you can see,
the selection is limited

to the pulse that they have in
their hand. When i use this tool

I can't stop, I have to
keep drawing until I finish

the selection, that can
make the cut more erratic

And not so interesting.
I'm going to compare here

how each cut shape is
seen with each tool.

This was the normal
Loop, this the Polygonal Loop

Which is what I like. Other tool

it's the magnetic lasso,
what it does is take pixels

similar in appearance,
in this case a contrast

in the background that is a
bit lighter with the girl's hair

That is a bit darker.
This tool is not perfect,

especially with an image
in which there is no border

so defined, for example,
upon reaching this part,

the tool does not
understand the blur and the fibers

of hair that may appear,
it's like an automatic cut,

but who does not understand
when these types of problems occur

where there are fibers or the
contrast is not a high contrast,

It looks more attenuated and is
not so convenient on that side.

And the image, if they
realize, looks like nibbled,

the cut does not look so fine,
so precise. That about the Tie.

Another tool that can be
used is the Magic Wand,

everyone will be surprised,
but I use it a lot because

It facilitates an immediate,
easy trimming. Is not perfect,

in fact, it looks very
bad, let's say I find a rose,

some branches of a
complex cut and after two hours

from being clipping I
realize that it doesn't work for me

And I wasted my time
What the Magic Wand allows

is to crop large sections of
image, what it does is take

lighter shades or a defined pixel area

and allows to
eliminate it with a single cut.

I always use it when I start a
composition so as not to lose

time making a precise
cut, the Wand allows me

take the test to see if the
form works for me, and if not,

I didn't waste so much time.
There is also the Draft or Mask,

the clipping from Mask
I have never used it,

I don't know him, surely many
do know him, it's another way

to trim, but I prefer the
Loop to not be doing this

of being resized, I
think it lacks precision.

And the last tool is the
Pen, it is the favorite

of many people, it
allows me to trim from nodes,

with each click I generate a
point or a node and the tool

I am generating a kind
of path from those points

I'm building I don't like it
either because it seems to me

very complicated to use,
the cut is very perfect and

it's hard to see when I cut
and use it to form geometric,

for very precise
elements. When I finish choosing

My selection, right click and
I make it Make selection. Okay.

And there I take the
selection of the cut.

Those are the basic ways
to trim. To me the most

I like it is the Polygonal Lasso, it
makes it easy for me to see the edge

of the image, allows me
to go to the hair fibers

with ease and I find it
more practical, simpler.

We have clear tools, what
do you think if we start

to compose our final project? I start

for the main character, the
green fairy, I'm interested

this idea that is proposed in
the Brief of having a character

With two faces. Let's explore
that benign part of absinthe

like an elixir that heals
and that inspired and that was

as a kind of panacea
with its medicinal origin,

and the other party in
which powers are assigned

of generating
hallucinations and frantic behaviors.

Explore those two faces
and those two worlds from

of the composition. We
start testing with this girl,

let's cut it with the lasso.

Now we copy the
selection and go to our canvas

to see how it works for
us What I would like to do

is that he had two eyes,
that his face is reflected

left and right to generate that idea

of a character as a deity
with two faces and who looks

to two very different worlds.
We do the test by erasing you

Half the face with the
eraser, let's see how it turns out.

It doesn't look bad at all,
but I don't like that face

is looking very up and has like a look

very innocent. When one
thinks of the green fairy,

Think of a safer
look, with some mischief,

this girl looks too
young and innocent to be

the green fairy
protagonist of an absinthe,

that's why I like to use
the Wand, I could have simply

take a piece of the face and see
if it works for me, and if not,

I try another. Let's find
out what else could help me.

Let's try this one.

I will do something faster.

We are going to reduce
a bit and cut it to see

How are we doing?

Let's fix the hair a
little, make it simpler.

I like that the look doesn't
look as innocent as the other girl,

that can help us, we
erase half of his face,

out there, and we will
reflect it to generate our deity

of two faces. I think it works better,

You don't have the lost look,
this central part of the eyes

It looks a little
weird, but we can start

to work to clean that up and
give it the most natural look.

I like how it looks,
let's correct your face

so that you feel more
balanced in some way,

let's join the
shapes, join the two layers,

let's take away the color
information so it doesn't distract us,

in another lesson we will
apply color and personify it more,

We will give you more character.
For now we take these eyes away

that bothers me a little,
let's make something happen

in the middle, the idea is to
look like a kind of goddess,

as a powerful and
superior being in some way.

That's why I'm cleaning his
face a little, to change him

the character. I do
everything with the Clone tool,

The one I told you is one of
my favorites, that allows me

fill in spaces, correct effects ...

I click on this checkered
square and what makes me

is to block the selection of
the layer, everything you do

inside the layer, if I
pass a line for example

it is not going to leave the
selection because it is locked here,

It is very useful when one
is doing this type of exercise

of cloning or correcting
things. Let's clean the cut that way

feel more organic,
follow the hairline,

Make it more
natural. Better like that.

We already have the
beginning of our composition,

What do you think if we start
putting something to close it

the neck, which encloses
the character and gives

more structure to your
body? Among my images I have

some bright objects
that can be useful,

let's try this one.
Again magic wand to speed up

the thing, we're just exploring just

the idea is to make a
collar that locks his neck

And don't get uncovered,
like a full closed bust.

This one doesn't look bad,
but I feel it as very thin,

also up here it closes
strangely, let's try another.

Let's see how it works for us,
this one can work better for me

If I manage to lock
it well with my neck

and have an interesting ending.

There we reflect it. It seems to work

and over there we
remove the color information

because we will not work color,
we will only study the shapes.

We remove the leftovers.

In order not to lose this
half that we already achieved,

I give Reverse Selection.
Right click + Reverse selection.

That makes me choose the other
part of the canvas and I can erase

the outside and not the
inside. I like how it looks,

Now we erase this excess
skin, we erase it and voila,

we already have a more structured neck

For our green fairy. Now let's do it

a central eye or central
shape that occupies that blank

that I have left, I don't
want it to be like a cyclops,

I want it to be a kind of
mask or monocle that has

as if it were a deity
that sees everything

and that is divided between
the area on the left that will be

our area of good, the sky of absinthe,

and the right that will
be part of hell, death,

hallucinations and violent behavior.

We can make the eye from another face

That is looking at the
center, that is not a lost look.

If you look, many of these
girls look like sideways,

I need an image that
looks more straight ahead.

Let's try this one.
I think this may be.

Let's erase what we don't need,

we remove the color information,

let's erase a little blur around it,

but as you can see,
it still looks weird,

the eye looks in the
middle, if I fuse it a little more

with the skin it
obviously connects more,

but it doesn't have that image of
being divine that I want to achieve.

Let's try how to
give it a kind of frame

so that it does not appear
that it is part of her body,

It is an added
element. We can help ourselves

of the same collar
material. Let's try this one.

We copy and return
here and seek to shape it.

That is not so thick,
more or less like this,

we have it at 2708%, it is
important to take into account

that size because
this could easily be,

just clone it, but if you look
it looks the same above as below,

I don't like that
repetition of elements so obvious

which is very common in
collage, I like it to feel different.

I can take advantage of another
curve, say the one I already had

on the necklace, and put it
as the upper part of the eye.

I put the same size, 2708 scale

so that I stay the same
and complete the form.

We are looking for a little
more space left in the eye,

Smaller suddenly. And we
take away the information

of color, we do the
same procedure as right now

To erase what we don't need.

I think we already have
our eye, let's erase a little

the excess skin and
let's clone this piece

that was left with a small
hole here, I still like it,

but I think he still
needs a little more work

here to the eye so
that it feels like mystic,

we will try to add an ornament,

A more interesting way.
Among my files I have recorded

I've been downloading,
door knobs, ornaments,

Organic forms that serve
me for this type of tasks.

The idea is that the
ornament goes just under there.

This one looks a little
simpler, but it doesn't bother me,

let's focus it a little, out
there, it looks like it's missing

something else
happens, we can just take

a piece of it and drag it a little,

That feels more complete. How
do they see it? Much better, huh?

We already have a more defined
and complete form for the entity

of the green fairy, let's
separate it a little from the face,

that does not feel that it
is so attached, but that it is

somehow like floating
in front of the face.

I like to have a
separate layer for the shadow,

what I do is select
each element in the layer

and with Command + Shift
sumo selections to select

the forms that interest me
that are covered by the shadow,

I already have the whole
selection, I create a layer below

and I paint it black
with the paint bucket.

Then, what I do to generate
my shadow is the Blur filter,

Gaussian blur, and I
generate my shadow,

let's not leave it so
strong, we remove opacity here

A little to the layer. Out there
better. Since it looks so complex

this form here, so adorned
with jewels and bright elements,

I would also like to fix the
necklace here in the middle,

we could think of adding
something interesting, let's look here

Among our girls what can we find.

Suddenly this brooch might work.

Here, in this case,
the cut with the Pen

I find it more useful than the
Loop because the Pen generates cuts

more geometric, with the
nodes I make a more perfect cut,

as in a vector form.
Right click + Selection.

Okay. We return to the
layer. That is not very large

not too small, color information ...

Our goddess is
getting more interesting,

as she has her hair
up she looks very lady,

I would like him to be more messy,

It looked a little more mischievous.
According to the Brief we are going to arm him

a headdress, I want it to be
countered with a little more

with visible hair, let's
look like an interesting strand

to put on Let's try this one.

When they are hair and
fibers of this type I like to have

more freedom in the cut,
the same for these strands.

If after trimming you see
that suddenly there are parts

that did not look good,
once the selection was made,

if they continue with the Tie
and press Alt they can remove

Part of the selection.
And if they press Shift,

They add selection.
Let's say I want to add

another lock with Shift, I
add it. And if I put Alt,

what I do is remove
selection, as in this little piece

I missed here.

Let's remove color
information and clone

because finding another
lock like that is complicated,

There is no problem
in having some balance

or of symmetry in both parts. Do
you see that it takes more structure

the hairstyle like that?
As proposed in the Brief,

Both worlds come from the girl's face.

One of the references is
this image of Botticelli

where this character comes out
with plants coming out of his mouth,

I liked that idea and I would
like to apply it so that it comes off

The whole world of green fairy breath.

We go to our folder
and see what can help us.