Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Design

Course details

Adobe Photoshop, the industry standard for image editing and manipulation, is used by a full spectrum of design professionals. This course was created specifically to help designers master the most commonly used tools and techniques with the goal of removing technical barriers in order to start creating as soon as possible. Photoshop 2021 boasts even more tools and enhancements for selecting and masking images, removing distracting elements, and warping images—all while maintaining the highest-quality output. In this course, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to efficiently work with Smart Objects and Smart Filters, distort and warp layers, work with text, create shapes, draw and edit vector paths using the pen tool, build animations, apply painterly effects, save and share libraries, and work with artboards.

Concepts

Introduction

Welcome to the Photoshop training series

Designing with Smart Objects

Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
Duplicating Smart Objects
Linked versus embedded Smart Object

Creative Transformations for Designers

Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
Puppet Warp
Perspective Warp
Using Liquify to reshape an image

Shape Layer Secrets

Quickly applying attributes to multiple shapes
Using Layer Effects and Fill Layers with shapes
Combining Live Shapes and Smart Objects
Creating seamless, tiled patterns
Adding texture to a shape layer

The Pen Tools

The Curvature Pen tool
Pen tool basics
Drawing a curved path
Drawing a complex path
Pen skills in practice

Essential Layer Effects and Styles

Creating, saving, and applying layer styles
Adding layer styles to groups
Using layer comps with styles
How to scale layer styles
Casting a shadow on the ground

Blend Modes

Using blend modes to unify images
Using blend modes to control color and tonal adjustments
Applying blend modes to layers and groups

Type Essentials

Working with paragraph (area) type
Adding Adobe Fonts
Selecting alternate characters using the Glyph panel
Matching fonts
Adding type along a path
Changing the shape of a letter
Variable concept fonts

Essential Filters for Designers

Tilt shift, iris, and field blur effects
Adding motion effects for spinning objects
Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
Adding flames to a photograph
Creating custom trees
Powerful posterization techniques

Painting Essentials

Creating, saving, and organizing custom brushes
Creating symmetrical brush strokes
The Mixer Brush
Painting along a path

Working with Libraries

Libraries panel essentials
Creating a library from a document
Capturing paterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image
CC Libraries linked Smart Objects
Sharing libraries
Working with Adobe Stock

Artboards

Creating artboards
Adding content to artboards
Tips and shortcuts for artboards
Saving and exporting artboards

Animating Images

Creating animated GIF files
Creating cinemagraphs

Sharing Images

Saving multiple photos at once with Image Processor
Basic PDF presentations in Photoshop

Conclusion

Continuing your learning with projects