Photoshop Projects Volume 14

PROFILE
SEBASTIAN ANDAUR
Five top
Photoshop
tools
Brush, gradient, curves, pen
tool and the shape tools. I use
those tools on every work;
they're useful for any kind of
situation. Curves are a really
vital part of my work and I’m
always amazed at how the
shape tools have become
powerful tools on CS6.
Starting Young
Sebastian Andaur is a young gun
in the design industry. He tells us
how he got started and what you
can do to get there too.
Age is no boundary
I’m Sebastian Andaur, and by the time this
magazine is out, I’ll be a 19-year-old Art
Director and self-taught designer based
in Santiago, Chile. I’ve been working for
about five or six years. I started young,
doing simple projects, and over the last
few years I’ve been working with clients
like HBO, Puma, Nestlé, Samsung and
a few others. I love colours and I love
getting paid to play with them.
I’m still in high school – yeah, I’m that
young! The plan is to go to design school
next year and end up working on
something I’m already planning called
‘Polygono’. It’s a multidisciplinary design,
TV and media agency.
I think clients are starting to understand
that age doesn’t matter if you have the
taste, the talent and a great portfolio.
Of course, it’s difficult find the right
clients and get older people to trust
you to take on a complex job, but lately
people are more and more accepting
of young guys, especially when there’s
so much young talent out there.
Design in Chile
The Chilean design scene is diverse.
We have designers working at an office
eight hours a day and guys like me
working from home with clients in
Australia – there’s a lot of talent. Shout
out to Joia Magazine, a Chilean design
magazine which does an amazing job
of getting the community together and
searching for emerging talent to be
featured in their pages.
I think you have to be inspired by
your environment. There’s no other way to
be happy with what you make. Santiago is
a pretty diverse city – there’s almost
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