Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design

Explore Photoshop 2020 from a design perspective. Learn how to work with the tools designers use most, including smart objects, type, shapes, the pen tool, libraries, and more.

Introduction

• Welcome to the Photoshop Essentials Training series

1. Designing with Smart Objects

• Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
• Duplicating Smart Objects
• Linked vs. embedded Smart Object

2. Creative Transformations for Designers

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

3. Shape Layer Secrets

• Quickly applying attributes to multiple shapes
• Using layer effects and fill layers with shapes
• Combining Live Shapes and Smart Objects
• Adding texture to a shape

4. The Pen Tools

• The Curvature Pen tool
• Pen tool basics
• Drawing curved paths
• Drawing complex paths
• Pen skills in practice

5. Essential Layer Effects and Styles

• Creating, saving, and applying layer styles
• Adding layer styles to groups
• Using layer comps with styles
• Scaling layer effects
• Casting a shadow on the ground

6. Blend Modes

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

7. Type Essentials

• Working with paragraph (area) type
• Adding Adobe Fonts
• Selecting alternate characters using the Glyph panel
• Matching fonts
• Adding type along a path
• Converting text to shape layers
• Variable concept and SVG fonts

8. Essential Filters for Designers

• Tilt Shift, Iris, and Field Blur effects
• Adding motion effects to spinning objects
• Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
• Adding flames to a photograph
• Creating custom trees
• Powerful posterization techniques

9. Painting Essentials

• Creating a custom scatter brush
• Creating symmetrical brush strokes
• The Mixer Brush
• Saving and organizing brushes
• Painting along a path

10. Working with Libraries Road Trip

• Library panel essentials
• Creating a library from a document
• CC Libraries Linked Smart Objects
• Sharing libraries
• Working with Adobe Stock

11. Artboards

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

12. Animating Images

• Creating animated GIF files
• Creating cinegraphs

13. Sharing Images

• Saving multiple photos at one time using Image Processor
• Quick share to services
• Creating basic PDF presentations in Photoshop

Conclusion

• Next steps