Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Design

This course explores the tools and features in Photoshop from a design perspective, enabling you to quickly get the image results you want in Photoshop 2021.

Introduction

• Welcome to the Photoshop training series

1. Designing with Smart Objects

• Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
• Duplicating Smart Objects
• Linked versus 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
• Creating seamless, tiled patterns
• Adding texture to a shape layer

4. The Pen Tools

• The Curvature Pen tool
• Pen tool basics
• Drawing a curved path
• Drawing a complex path
• 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
• How to scale layer styles
• 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
• Changing the shape of a letter
• Variable concept fonts

8. Essential Filters for Designers

• Tilt shift, iris, and field blur effects
• Adding motion effects for spinning objects
• Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
• Adding flames to a photograph
• Creating custom trees
• Powerful posterization techniques

9. Painting Essentials

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

10. Working with Libraries

• Libraries panel essentials
• Creating a library from a document
• Capturing paterns, colors, gradients, and shapes from an image
• 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 cinemagraphs

13. Sharing Images

• Saving multiple photos at once with Image Processor
• Basic PDF presentations in Photoshop

Conclusion

• Continuing your learning with projects