Building Powerful Instagram Assets with Photoshop

Learn how to utilize Photoshop to create striking social media assets.

Introduction

• How to build a powerful asset with Photoshop

1. Create a New Document

• Create a new document for web
• The Photoshop interface
• Save as a cloud document

2. Prepare Your Assets

• Create dedicated CC Libraries
• Import your own assets
• Professional assets at your fingertips
• Create from an image
• Color themes

3. Isolate a Subject from a Photo

• The Layers panel
• Useful shortcuts
• Remove background
• Select and mask
• Refine a mask

4. Combine Multiple Images

• Manage layers
• Inverted mask
• The Brush tool settings
• Kyle's brushes
• Blending modes
• Smart Objects
• Camera Raw

5. Add Text

• Add a text layer
• Edit text style
• Adobe Fonts
• Layer styles

6. The Animation

• The Timeline panel
• Opacity animation
• Transform animation
• Add music

7. Export

• Export your output

Conclusion

• What's next?