This tutorial series explores beginner and intermediate-level Photoshop tools. For our beginner-level Photoshoppers, the chapters take you step-by-step through three mini-projects. We start with basic document creation, and move onwards to more and more advanced tools as we progress through the projects. We’ve also kept the course modular for our intermediate-level Photoshoppers. Chapters cover a single function, tool, or aspect of a tool, making it easier to jump in and out of the topics you need to explore. In this course, we will cover a wide variety of common, as well as not-so-common, tools and features that will help improve and expedite your storyboarding, illustration, and design needs.

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

  • Learn to set-up new documents
  • Learn to edit document settings
  • Understand the difference between CMYK and RGB
  • Learn to create text, painted layers, and vector shapes
  • Learn to create different brushes to create lines, textures, and color
  • Learn to manipulate and save paths and vector shapes
  • Learn how to manipulate visibility and editability of layers and objects
  • Learn different color and image adjustment tools
  • Understand difference between different color blending modes
  • Learn to use actions and layer comps
  • Understand how content and file types affect file size

TABLE of CONTENTS

01 Document Settings 1 - A New Document
0:06:44
02 Document Settings 2 - Resizing
0:03:44
03 Document Settings 3 - Color Modes
0:05:50
04 Text Tool
0:08:55
05 Move, Snap, and Rulers
0:04:48
06 Brush Tool 1 - Basics
0:10:29
07 Brush Tool 2 - Dynamics
0:08:20
08 Layer Opacity - Virtual Lightbox
0:07:18
09 Pen Tool 1 - Creating Shapes
0:08:24
10 Pen Tool 2 - Saving Paths
0:07:09
11 Brush Tool 3 - Opacity, Flow, and Transfer
0:11:15
12 Layer Styles
0:11:55
13 Layer Masks
0:07:03
14 Levels
0:04:27
15 Shapes and Vector Objects
0:08:17
16 Pen Tool 3 - Advanced Shapes
0:06:59
17 Transform
0:05:38
18 Pen Tool 4 - Photoshop Versus Illustrator
0:03:41
19 Selection 1 - Marquees and Lassos
0:11:41
20 Selection 2 - Modify and Feather
0:07:41
21 Gradients
0:06:48
22 Clipping Masks
0:05:42
23 Actions
0:05:56
24 Blend Modes
0:11:18
25 Smart Objects
0:07:02
26 Blurs - Feather, Filter, and Blur
0:08:57
27 Adjustment Layers
0:05:40
28 Layer Comps
0:07:35
29 File Size and File Types
0:07:48
30 Review and Discussion
0:09:25

RUN-TIME 3:47:36