Photoshop CC 2019 Essential Training: Design

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Free Online Course: Photoshop CC 2019 Essential Training: Design provided by LinkedIn Learning is a comprehensive online course, which lasts for 4-5 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 CC 2019 Essential Training: Design is taught by Julieanne Kost.

Overview
  • Make your digital images shine with Photoshop CC 2019. Get acquainted with the popular program's tools and features from a design perspective.

Syllabus
  • 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