Photoshop for the In-House Designer

Course details

Many companies are bringing design in-house for greater creative control and cost efficiency. However, you may find the role of an in-house designer is very different from that of a freelancer. There is a stronger emphasis on templates and styles, consistent file output, and shared workflows. This course helps designers transition their Photoshop skills to in-house design work, with a focus on efficiency, compatibility, and collaboration. Designer and creative consultant Tony Harmer covers topics such as formatting Photoshop documents, making quick adjustments and selections, leveraging templates and presets, building libraries of assets and brushes, sharing your work, and finalizing files for export. Plus, get tips for generating assets for web and UX design, as well as print production, and creating animation and video in the Photoshop timeline.

Learning objectives
Building templates
Organizing your layers
Managing presets
Sharing assets
Collaborating
Quick masking for mockups
Making brushes
Generating assets for web and UX
Creating animation and video
Saving files correctly

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Introduction

1. Organization

02 - Building an email template
03 - Organizing layers
04 - Filtering layers by content
05 - Layer comps
06 - Editing the toolbar
07 - Managing presets
08 - Shortcuts
09 - Metadata, boring but essential

2. Collaboration

10 - CC Libraries and collaboration
11 - Creative Cloud in the browser
12 - Comments and version review

3. Visualization

13 - Effective quick masking for mockups
14 - Selections and the Camera Raw filter
15 - Brushes from Creative Cloud
16 - Making brushes in Adobe Capture
17 - Photoshop Sketch
18 - Using vector masks
19 - Layers to files

4. Web and UX

20 - CC Extract
21 - CSS from Layers
22 - SVG from Photoshop
23 - Using Export As in Photoshop
24 - Using the Generator

5. Animation and Motion

25 - Creating animated GIFs from Photoshop
26 - Editing video in Photoshop
27 - Advanced options for video in Photoshop

6. Special Requirements

28 - Separations
29 - Multichannel images

Conclusion

30 - Next steps