Introducing Photoshop: Design

Quickly learn how to use Photoshop for everyday design tasks—combining text and artwork, replacing backgrounds, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome

1. The Image File

• Opening images
• Getting around an image
• Understanding selections and layers

2. Selecting an Image

• Using the marquee tools
• Free-form and straight-sided selections
• Selecting areas of color
• Deselecting and History
• Refining selected edges

3. Working with Layers

• Three ways to make a layer
• Blending layers
• Cleaning up art with an adjustment layer
• Scaling and rotating
• Duplicating a series of layers
• Recoloring art with an adjustment layer
• Moving a layer into a new background

4. Type and Effects

• Creating and formatting type
• Drop shadow and Fill Opacity
• Carving letters with Bevel & Emboss
• Creating a type effect from a photographic element

5. Paint and Pen

• Working with the Brush tool
• Creating and using custom brushes
• Painting inside a selection
• Adding gradients and patterns
• Drawing with the Pen tool
• Stroking a brushstroke along a path

6. Layer Masks and Shape Layers

• Using a layer mask
• Drawing vector-based shapes
• Turning a shape into a vector mask
• Creating clipping masks

7. Smart Objects and Filters

• Placing an image as a Smart Object
• Applying a dynamic Smart Filter
• Creating a Smart Filter effect
• Adding shadows to line art

8. Saving for Print and Web

• Saving a layered PSD file
• Saving TIFF and PNG images
• Saving an image for web and online

Conclusion

• Next steps