Urban image montage in Photoshop: Artwork "The big city"

Learn Photoshop image montage methods for your artwork ideas

Tell stories with your image montages! In this one-hour training course, Marco Kolditz will show you how he goes about getting from the initial idea to the final artwork . The result is an oppressive cityscape that will captivate you like quicksand.

Prepare the montage: Cut out the person, hair and building facades

In order to combine the individual motifs into a new whole in a montage , you first have to crop them. But how do you go about it? After all, each element brings its own challenges. In the Photoshop training course, Marco Kolditz explains which cropping methods are suitable for a portrait of a woman and her hair as well as for building facades. Sharpen your eye for detail and learn how to delicately separate it from the background.

Photoshop know-how: perspective, deformation, reflections

Photoshop's tools set you no limits when it comes to image editing. Endless possibilities that - if you're not careful - can quickly degenerate into gimmicks. So stick to your image idea, just like Marco Kolditz works every little effect into his image montage. Among other things, the training involves carrying out deformations, creating reflections and correctly adjusting the perspective of elements. Procedures that you will also need again and again in your image montages.

Urban artwork with style - a harmonious overall picture

It is in the nature of things that the motifs in an image montage come from different image sources and usually bring with them a wide variety of light and color moods. To ensure that your image montages do not look like a patchwork, they must be skillfully placed and their color effects must be coordinated. What's more, additional graphic effects and a coherent color look make the individual motifs look as if they have been cast from a single mold. You can find out how to do all this and how to create a cool raster effect with Photoshop in the training.

More inspiration for your montages

Marco Kolditz presents further ideas and workflows in his tutorials on the photo montages "Chocolate", "The Sports Spirit" and "Black Widow", among others. Click on his trainer profile to fully immerse yourself in the world of Photoshop creativity.

What you'll learn in the Photoshop training course

Inspiration plus application knowledge - refine your Photoshop skills and apply what you've learned to your own image montages. You will get to know the following methods, among others:

• Crop: How to remove a person, hair and house facades from the background
• Deform: Create a creative effect by giving subjects a new shape
• Perspective: How to correctly adjust the perspective of individual image elements
• Reflections: How to create these important effects for a coherent appearance
• Image montage: What you should pay attention to when placing the motifs
• Image montage: How to color-coordinate the various elements
• Look & style: Create an atmospheric color look and an interesting grid effect