Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design

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Free Online Course: Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 3-4 hours worth of material. The course is taught in English and is free of charge. Upon completion of the course, you can receive an e-certificate from LinkedIn Learning. Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design is taught by Julieanne Kost.

Overview
  • 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.

Syllabus
  • 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