Photoshop CC 2019 Essential Training: Design

Introduction

• Welcome to Photoshop essentials for design
• What you need to know
• Using the exercise files

1. Working with Smart Objects

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

2. Creative Transformations for Designers

• Warping images
• Vanishing point to paste in perspective
• Puppet Warp
• Perspective Warp
• Using Liquify to reshape an object

3. Essential Filters for Designers

• Tilt Shift, Iris, and Field Blur effects
• Motion effects for spinning objects
• Emulating traditional drawing techniques
• Placing a pattern along a path
• Creating custom trees

4. Basic Shape Layers

• Using the Shape tools
• Strokes, fills, and effects for shapes
• Modifying and combining shapes
• Instances of a shape with live shape
• Using shapes as vector masks
• Adding texture to a shape

5. Pen Tool

• The Curvature Pen tool
• Pen tool basics
• Drawing curved path
• Drawing complex path
• Drawing a shape

6. Fill Layers and Blend Modes

• Using Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill
• Apply Blend Modes to layers and groups

7. Essential Layer Effects and Styles

• Applying layer effects and styles
• Creative layer effect styles
• Save and apply layer effects and styles
• Adding layer styles to groups
• How to scale layer styles
• Casting a shadow on the ground

8. Type Essentials

• Exploring headline (point) type
• Using leading, kerning, and tracking
• The glyph panel
• Adding fonts from TypeKit
• Working with paragraph (area) type
• Match Font (Latin fonts only)
• Adding type along a path
• Converting text to shape layers
• Emoji, SVG, and variable fonts

9. Painting Essentials

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

10. Working with Libraries

• 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. Exporting Files and Sharing Images

• Save photos with Image Processor
• Quick share images to social media
• Quickly exporting images
• Basic PDF presentations in Photoshop

Conclusion

• Next steps