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Photoshop for Designers: Working with Shapes

Offered By: LinkedIn Learning

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Adobe Photoshop Courses Web Design Courses Graphic Design Courses Typography Courses Vector Graphics Courses Digital Illustration Courses Smart Objects Courses

Course Description

Overview

Watch this course to learn the ins and outs of creating professional designs and artwork using crisp, scalable vector shapes in Photoshop.

Syllabus

Introduction
  • Welcome
  • Using the exercise files
1. Creating Basic Shapes
  • The Shape tools
  • Live Shape properties
  • Rectangles, rounded rectangles, and ellipses
  • The Line tool
  • Polygons and stars
  • Fill and stroke
  • Custom shapes
  • Pen paths
2. Editing Shapes
  • Convert shapes to paths and vice versa
  • Invert paths and shapes
  • Copy, select, move, and transform shapes
  • Path Operations
  • Edit a custom shape
  • Align and distribute shapes
3. Designing with Shape Layers: Part 1
  • Blend modes and shape layers
  • Layer effects and shape layers
  • Filters and shape layers
  • Smart Objects and shape layers
  • Convert type to a shape layer
  • Type and shape layers
4. Designing with Shape Layers: Part 2
  • Create web buttons with shape layers
  • Create guides from shape layers
  • Create a web with shape layers
  • Shape layers as clipping masks and vector masks
  • Create a collage with shape layers
  • Use shapes to clip multiple layers
5. Working with Custom Shapes
  • Create a shape with Adobe Capture
  • Create a custom shape using Illustrator's Image Trace
  • Other ways to create Photoshop custom shapes
  • Manage shapes with the Preset Manager
Conclusion
  • Goodbye

Taught by

Nigel French

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