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.
Overview
Syllabus
Introduction
- Welcome to the Photoshop Essentials Training series
- Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
- Duplicating Smart Objects
- Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
- Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
- Puppet Warp
- Perspective Warp
- Using Liquify to reshape an image
- 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
- The Curvature Pen tool
- Pen tool basics
- Drawing curved paths
- Drawing complex paths
- Pen skills in practice
- 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
- Using blend modes to unify images
- Using blend modes to control color and tonal adjustments
- Applying blend modes to layers and groups
- 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
- 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
- Creating a custom scatter brush
- Creating symmetrical brush strokes
- The Mixer Brush
- Saving and organizing brushes
- Painting along a path
- Library panel essentials
- Creating a library from a document
- CC Libraries Linked Smart Objects
- Sharing libraries
- Working with Adobe Stock
- Creating artboards
- Adding content to artboards
- Tips and shortcuts for artboards
- Saving and exporting artboards
- Creating animated GIF files
- Creating cinegraphs
- Saving multiple photos at one time using Image Processor
- Quick share to services
- Creating basic PDF presentations in Photoshop
- Next steps
Taught by
Julieanne Kost