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Introducing Photoshop: Design

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe Photoshop Courses Image Editing Courses Digital Painting Courses Vector Shapes Courses Layer Masks Courses Smart Objects Courses

Course Description

Overview

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

Syllabus

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

Taught by

Deke McClelland

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