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Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design

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Overview

Explore Photoshop 2020 from a design perspective. Learn how to work with the tools designers use most, including smart objects, type, shapes, the pen tool, libraries, and more.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome to the Photoshop Essentials Training series
1. Designing with Smart Objects
  • Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
  • Duplicating Smart Objects
  • Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
2. Creative Transformations for Designers
  • Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
  • Puppet Warp
  • Perspective Warp
  • Using Liquify to reshape an image
3. Shape Layer Secrets
  • Quickly applying attributes to multiple shapes
  • Using layer effects and fill layers with shapes
  • Combining Live Shapes and Smart Objects
  • Adding texture to a shape
4. The Pen Tools
  • The Curvature Pen tool
  • Pen tool basics
  • Drawing curved paths
  • Drawing complex paths
  • Pen skills in practice
5. Essential Layer Effects and Styles
  • Creating, saving, and applying layer styles
  • Adding layer styles to groups
  • Using layer comps with styles
  • Scaling layer effects
  • Casting a shadow on the ground
6. Blend Modes
  • Using blend modes to unify images
  • Using blend modes to control color and tonal adjustments
  • Applying blend modes to layers and groups
7. Type Essentials
  • Working with paragraph (area) type
  • Adding Adobe Fonts
  • Selecting alternate characters using the Glyph panel
  • Matching fonts
  • Adding type along a path
  • Converting text to shape layers
  • Variable concept and SVG fonts
8. Essential Filters for Designers
  • Tilt Shift, Iris, and Field Blur effects
  • Adding motion effects to spinning objects
  • Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
  • Adding flames to a photograph
  • Creating custom trees
  • Powerful posterization techniques
9. Painting Essentials
  • Creating a custom scatter brush
  • Creating symmetrical brush strokes
  • The Mixer Brush
  • Saving and organizing brushes
  • Painting along a path
10. Working with Libraries Road Trip
  • Library panel essentials
  • Creating a library from a document
  • CC Libraries Linked Smart Objects
  • Sharing libraries
  • Working with Adobe Stock
11. Artboards
  • Creating artboards
  • Adding content to artboards
  • Tips and shortcuts for artboards
  • Saving and exporting artboards
12. Animating Images
  • Creating animated GIF files
  • Creating cinegraphs
13. Sharing Images
  • Saving multiple photos at one time using Image Processor
  • Quick share to services
  • Creating basic PDF presentations in Photoshop
Conclusion
  • Next steps

Taught by

Julieanne Kost

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