Design with Me - Photoshop Process Walkthrough & Tips
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- What goes through a graphic designer's head when they create? What does the design process look like? How do you create surreal collage art in Photoshop? In this tutorial, Matthew Encina takes you through the process of how he creates the collage graphics for The Futur CZcams channel.
🔥 These are the 3 Tips Matthew has when creating your designs:
1. Define your concept and make your idea the anchor for all of your work.
2. Explore a lot of ways how to communicate your idea until you make a breakthrough.
3. Add contrast to make your frames dynamic, interesting, and impactful.
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I like the timelapse. Seeing all the paths you tried before getting to the final result is priceless, even more for designers that are still somewhat insecure with their own work. Seeing someone with experience having the same difficulties - but dealing with it in a positive and focused way - is something that helps demystify the design and creative process.
yes, seeing this is really a precious thing. In current era where all design work could be accessed easily, we tend to forget how much work goes into each of these and how many hours, steps, and trials required for the final artwork.
Good to know gents
I LOVE your Thumbnail Style!
As an aspiring freelance graphic designer I am so thankful for your videos as a learning tool. Thank you!! Please don't stop sharing your creative process 💕
And the award calming voice 2019 goes to... Matthew. As usual a great video, I love how you can break down and explain all the concepts and make it even more valuable.
Watching the whole process is so helpful; knowing that, like most things, it's not perfect on round one, is something I need to remember.
Thank you for more in this series. It speaks to me! I prefer the other video - the actual technical steps on how you add and manipulate your layers. I appreciate your explanation at the end of this though. You make a great point in wanting to show every decision and the entire process of continual reworking until it feels right. That’s valuable to shed light on. Personally, the other video speaks louder to me. I’m a self taught designer and I greatly enjoy seeing other people’s workflows. I love to see new tips and tricks for achieving something. And I value this even more from a CD like Matthew. It’s freaking gold. Thank you. 🙏
Man i love that you show your entire process in speed. When you like and not the composition. It inspires me to make more tests in my Compositions.
I am glad to know that other designers go through the same process, we never do the design from the first round we keep exploring and exploring till it clicks.
I prefer this speed work process over the the first one... Good job and hope to see your other art piece in the future
There's something very satisfying and inspirational about watching the whole process on speed. Love the final outcome @MatthewEncina!
Matt...I thumbs up these videos and then watch them. I really appreciate what you guys are doing. I've experienced exponential growth with my operations. Can't say enough thanks. 🙏🏽
I like this type of tutorial. When you were stuck with the sentence or the proportions of the elements really helped me out. Because I would have the same problem. It's nice to see you with these problems and how you resolve it
I really enjoyed watching and hearing your design process in this video! Excited to see more along this series 🙂The thumbnails on The Futur always feature amazing design! I really appreciate these details.
Thank you for taking us with you on this journey, I am planning to design a landing page and before even coming to software I am spending a great amount of time in building concept, finding who will use my product and so on. People like you really motivates me. Thanks again
Great teaching!!!🔥🔥🔥
@Matthew it would be great if you took a pause here and there and explained why the other compositions were not working and what made the final composition good enough.
Great video. I feel like the previous one tought us more technical stuff, but seeing the process and thinking is also priceless.
How about you try to mix both: give us your narrated thinking, then slow down and guide us through making an actual photo montage?
WE WANT MORE VIDEOS LIKE THIS
THANK YOU"
Motaz M. Abdelaziz you got it
Thanks Matthew! Very instructive, very inspiring! Will be watching for those! Makes me want to create!
I really enjoyed this style more than the previous!
Great video! So helpful to see the whole process, I'd definitely love to see more videos of this type!
Oh man i love this kind of videos, thank you guys!
I like both tutoral styles. The previous video is great in terms of showing technical stuff while this one is more about thinking and experimenting. Your videos really help me with my design process. Thanks a lot
I like this style tutorial, it’s good to see all the attempts it took to get to the final. I think it’s tempting to stop exploring too early in the process out of frustration or insecurity. It’s good to see how a designer like you handles this.
Love it..
I love these videos, they’re so entertaining and inspiring. Good stuff 👌👌👌👌👌
Thanks, MATTHEW. This helped me a lot.
This is really awesome Matthew. I want more of this pls. I also many times have issues with process when designing. This is really helping. I feel I am not alone.
Love this tutorial! Image manipulations is always something that I have struggled with, but I think this tutorial helped a lot!
Keep up the awesome content on this channel! LOVE IT!!
Absolutely great tutorial. Seems quite similar to what my mentors want to see. You and theFuture Team are very inspiring idols for me. Great job. I love your work.
Awesome video Matthew, I really like your way of explaining your process.
Appreciate this @Matt I'm a developer but I do believe we are all creatives in the same sense
This tutorial format is awesome!
Man, what an awesome video. I love this style and love seeing the whole process! How long do you typically spend on these projects??
Great process, thanks for sharing!
Thanks for the video 😊. It really helped me improve my designs.
This is great dude! I like seeing how many concepts you tried before you found the style. It's a rad thumbnail.
Hey Matthew, I like your stuff, like usual it's top notch work, I like how you walk us through the process and how you explain every decision so it make sense! I hope we see more and more of these, and as for the style I believe changing the style from time to time is better than sticking to one, even though I like seeing the process on action, but each method have some different learning points!
Cheers
Huge thumbs up for these, I find them very helpful
Love Futur... ❤
I like seeing the thought process!
thank you for this awesome video :D
I really like these videos. I was making a lot of this kind of pictures in the past. So for me it is more about enjoying watching your mindflow
Thanks for the video. I found this really valuable. It’s great to see your process, and especially to see the failed attempts along the way. It’s really important for people to see how small failures can lead to a great end result.
Thanks dude for sharing the process 😉👍🏻
I love your unique style, thanks for sharing this content!
i really like this style of videos much more!!!
Great video !!!!!!
Great video as always
Love this simple video, with your newly renovated wall in the background ;)
Y'all are awesome 😇
Helpful lot...thank you
I love this style! It's really great to view the whole process; it really helps me as a beginner in graphic design. Hope you make more videos like this! :--)
U made it really cool, and ur advice was useful ❤️👍
Great video! I watched every single video of the futur academy! I have 1 question, what is your fav tool on cut off the image?
superb way to explain all the steps
I have always been a fan of your chabneo's thumbnails..
Very Amazing to see you teach that thing
This was really helpful to me
Thank you
That was an awesome video, sir.
Excellent thought process 👌
Love the video. Btw cool haircut
Amazing as usual! Glad to see that we have the same process of creating things. Sometimes (usually when I have a little bit of more spare time on my hand) I would make a bunch of random sketches on a piece of paper, mostly containing geometrical shapes that correspond to different elements I want to put in my design. It's just a little additional thing to study the composition and weight of the elements :D
This video was super awesome!!! Its beautiful to see your thought process, although for me the first format worked better as I could clearly see what tools/configurations you were using. Which with the timelapse was harder to follow. Overall love this new channel and the content!
I really ejoy the mood of this videos, useful tips.
I liked this style.
Awesome tutorial! 👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Thanks
Beast
awesome
Cool video. I like the idea of making it dynamic like firstly carrot is big then comes to the man sitting on the ladder and then birds. Would like to see more of these thumbnails. Maybe you can explain how you came down to a particular colour because I feel that attracts more.
Binoculars. Nice creative insight either way, thank you.
Thumbs up bro.
Nice vid! I'd recommend downloading the preview version of the image on shutterstock for experimenting before actually purchase it.
1000th like..
Love these videos from you guys .
How long it takes you for an images like this from concept to finished final ?
@@MatthewEncina that's fast , it usually takes me around 4-6
A quick suggestion... Perhaps show the search terms you used when finding images in Shutterstock (successful or otherwise). May help to reinforce your thought process in the edit.
The biggest thing I took away from this the first point. To define your concept, I hardly to that I usually wait a little till I get into photoshop to start thinking as I work.. I really enjoyed watching you work it out on photoshop and would love to see it again! Do you think the style frame course will be a good fit for me if already feel very comfortable in photoshop but would still like to learn a few extra tricks here and there? For example I noticed you use a function that ive never used before in the video called contract, never used it but I know everything around that function... Thank You!!
Both styles are great, decide depending on the content.
You are awesome 👏🏻
Thanks
Fantastic video Matthew. Love the progress. Quick question, at the concept phase, would sketching out the actual concept and alternative compositions help concretize a few elements? Or does the flexibility of the mouse moving allow for more exploration?
Matthew Encina Thanks for the feedback man. Either way, it came out really well. These sort of videos are awesome. Please keep them coming!
Appreciate this Matt! Would love to see more photoshop compositing videos!
Edit: I remembered a video on Chris praising Farm Design's portfolio on Behance as one of his gold standard portfolio examples. Perhaps in the future you could make videos on how to execute that type of work? Wouldn't mind paying if it ends up as a course bundle. I wanna level up! Cheers! :D
@@MatthewEncina Thanks for clearing that out. I've actually purchased the bundle some time ago but still in the process of completing it. I never thought that the logo course is gonna cover more than just logo design. Glad to know!
Great insight, please make more content like this. 👌🏽 How much time would you estimate it took you overall from concept to final design?
2 hours.
This was really great! I loved this type of video, it was nice to see your process and it made me rethink the way I do things. I don't know if its too much to ask but maybe you could try a combination of the previous style and this one. Jagoda Gabryelczyk said it too!
FUNtastic
How do you cut the subject ?
i work in the publishing co in Taiwan, and I found the tip of defining concept is so so important, you will know how disastrously time-wasting that is when it was not well confirm or specified, like our vice president keep redefining the title of the design project three times lol...
Awesome tutorial! I always love to watch The Futur's design tutorials 1st thing when I login into youtube. Waiting for more design content :)
A simple request. The background music was little distracting, due to which I was unable to listen and focus on some parts. Thanks.
@@MatthewEncinacool and thank you.
I think this image could be pushed so much farther. To reinforce the concept it would make more sense to have the man on the ladder reaching out for the carrot, leaning precariously would add movement and action and maybe a touch of humor. The collage vibe from the previous video is getting lost and incorporating texture might help a lot. The actual carrot could be more interesting. To harken back to the collage the carrot could be made out of other abstract cut out orange shapes. Handled well that could be nice and the birds could be integrated more to give the scene depth. Some birds behind the L and flying through the counter in the letter A would help. Legibility on the letter L could be better and the overall contrast could be pushed to really make the elements stand out. This all feels really washed out right now. But besides all of that it’s great lol. I’m sure you would have done more with more time
Thanks Matthew. Please make something 3d with C4D
Nice one, I love this style a lot. Thanks for those advices ❤️.
Would you make a session, like critique one, where you will give us a feedback of our work based on this style?
@@MatthewEncina Thanks
Are all those photos you downloaded from Shutterstock counting towards your monthly image count in your subscription?? Just wondering what the most cost-effective method is if I wanted to start using paid stock photos rather than free places like Pexels or Unsplash, especially if I'm not going to end up using all of the photos I play around with when brainstorming.
Kaptivated Great question. I also wanted to ask the same thing. I have a cousin who is designer in an agency he says they keep picking pictures (same as video) from stock sites as their agencies have those costly subscription packages. But how we (as freelancers) can try them is really a good thing to know.
We have an account for like 750 downloads per month, but when i start to design and trying things i just copy the preview image and check first if it works. Then when i'm happy i will download the images and finalize the design.
Usually what I do before downloading is copy the watermarked sample from the site and try it in the composition to preview if it works with whatever I'm going for. If it does, then I hit the download button. That way you avoid wasting away your precious and limited monthly downloads in pics you won't use :)
please make full tutorial
So how long did this take to make? End to end
How do you remove your backgrounds that fast , you should do a video ...
Can we get a desk/room tour ?
Please teach us typography more ❤❤
Hey Team! Great video, keep up this kind of stuffs. Nice development and thinking behind the composition! :)
By the way could you guys give me a hand! I am looking for one of your videos from the past. It was about the Spartan Challenge, but the 3 thefutur videos under this name are not that one. In that video Emily is working on a composition/picture for the Spartan Race and Chris is showing her something on the computer. It is like this for a few minutes and than he moves forward... Do you know which video that could be?
I have a question, you don't make sketches before working on photoshop?
I KNEW YOU ARE A FILIPINO
I liked both of them, but if I were to choose one, I'd say this one. We could see more of the process.
(See what I did there?)
More on how to use typography, I always seem to choose poorly