Advanced speed tricks for updating Artboards in Photoshop

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107 lessons / 16 hours 21 projects Certificate of achievement

Overview

Course Overview

Hi there, my name is  Dan and I am an Adobe Certified Instructor for Photoshop  - this is the Advanced Photoshop course.

This course is not for people new to Photoshop. This is for people who already know the fundamentals. It is for people who have their own ways of doing things but believe there really is a better, faster way to work. 

We will start by learning the best selection techniques available. I promise, by the end of the first section what took you 30mins to mask will now take you 30 seconds. 

What am I going to get from this course?
  • 13+ Hours of content!
  • 10+ Interactive exercises
  • 68 downloadable resources
  • You'll learn the best selection and masking techniques
  • You'll know how to fix images that look 'hard to fix'
  • You'll master advanced levels and curves tricks, specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colors
  • You'll learn how to enlarge images without distortion and what to do when things go wrong
  • You'll know how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images
  • My favourite: You'll master the ability to distort, bend and reshape images
  • Lets look at how current trending styles are super easy to duplicate
  • You will become a type nerd. We'll use font pairing in Typekit. We'll also use Photoshop's ability to guess fonts
  • Your Artboards skill will be mastered
  • A master of retouching, you will become!
  • You'll learn to edit videos in Photoshop, who'd have thought?
  • We'll also create awesome cinemagraphs, AKA: Moving pictures!
  • You'll learn to master 3D in Photoshop!
  • You'll learn lots about professional, reusable mockups, techniques and shortcuts!

Here's some of the things we'll be doing in this course:
We will correct 'hard to fix' images and learn what to do with blurry images. We will master Advanced Levels & Curves tricks and will work specifically with skin, adjusting and enhancing colours. 

You will learn how to enlarge images without distorting them and also, what to do when things go wrong. 

We will learn how to convincingly remove all kinds of objects from images. My personal favourite section will show you how to distort, bend & reshape images.

We will look at how current trending visual styles are easily created, duotones, glitches and orange/teal colour grading.

We get 'type nerdy' and use font pairing in Typekit. We will use Photoshop to identify the fonts used in an image and learn how to work with hidden glyphs & ligatures as well as variable & open type fonts.

You will master artboards while you are learning how to make easily updatable multiple sized social media & ad banner graphics. 

There is a big section on advanced retouching techniques, advanced healing, advanced cloning & patching. 

You will learn how to edit videos in Photoshop. We will also animate static images creating parallax videos plus the very cool cinemagraphs sometimes called 'living pictures' - great for social media. 

You will learn to master 3D in photoshop. We will finish off the course with professional, reusable mockup techniques & shortcuts. 

This course has a strong focus on workflow. We use real world, practical projects and show you the professional techniques and shortcuts which will save you hours using Photoshop. Throughout the course I have many class exercises for you to use in order to practice your skills. 

Who am I? 
As well as being an Officially Certified Expert by Adobe, I’m photoshop guru and user with 18 years Photoshop experience. I make tutorial videos directly for Adobe and will again this year be presenting a seminar on  Photoshop at Adobe’s 20 thousand attendee strong Max Conference.  

If you can’t remember the last time you sat down and went through the updates in Photoshop, let this course be your one stop professional development and upgrade path.   

Even if you consider yourself a heavy user, I promise there will be things in here that will blow your Photoshop mind. Sign up now!

Course duration 13 hours 45 mins + your study.



Daniel Scott

Daniel Scott

Founder of Bring Your Own Laptop & Chief Instructor

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I discovered the world of design as an art student when I stumbled upon a lab full of green & blue iMac G3’s. My initial curiosity around using the computer to create ‘art’ developed into a full-blown passion, eventually leading me to become a digital designer and founder of Bring Your Own Laptop.

Sharing and teaching are a huge part of who I am. As a certified Adobe instructor, I've had the honor of winning multiple Adobe teaching awards at their annual MAX conference. I see Bring Your Own Laptop as the supportive community I wished for when I was first starting out and intimidated by design. Through teaching, I hope to bring others along for the ride and empower my students to bring their stories, labors of love, and art into the world.
True to my Kiwi roots, I've lived in many places, and currently, I reside in Ireland with my wife and kids.

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We're getting into the nitty-gritty. Let's get into some more advanced speed tricks for Artboards. I wasn't sure what to call this video, falling short on names. It's all just doing good things in Artboards. 


So let's start with the text. I grab the 'Type Tool', I am going to click, hold, and drag out a box. If you click, hold, and drag, it gives you a fixed width box. So we're going to say, 'New Adobe Illustrator Advanced Course'. Anyway, got some text. The shortcut for Photoshop, if you highlight the text, and go 'Command Shift' and use your period key or the full stop, that's 'Ctrl Shift'. Not sure what to call it, I call it full stop. I've been corrected lots on that. The period key, or the-- it's the greater than, it's the same. Down on your keyboard there. 


I've got a size, I'm going to pick a font, I'm going to use Roboto. I'll use Bold, I've spent a bit of time picking my font, maybe a little bigger. So what I want to do is try and save myself some time by doing some line breaks. Still doesn't look good. You get the idea, right? So with the Text Layer selected, so I've got it over here, I'm back on to my Move Tool, what you can do, is I'm going to go to my 'PS Advanced' libraries. With it selected here, you can hit this little '+', and you can say, actually I want the Character Style applied to Photoshop. You see him there. Let me give him a name, this is going to be my 'Title'. I'll call it H1, or something useful. And it means that later on, on a completely different document, or a different Artboard here, we're working away. 


And let's pretend like it's not the exact same size. And Font, I'm just picking something else, random. So that with that layer selected here, I can just click on this, and it goes and matches it. Better consistency across Artboards. Another one here, for like Ts and Cs, I got some text, random text that I typed in. I click once, paste it in, it's way too big. So with the layer selected, I can just click on this other one here. I've called it Roboto, but it's actually called Ts & Cs. So I've worked out what the minimum font size is that I need for my advertising, and I can put in my text. 


Now a little note is that, in both Illustrator and InDesign, right? Other Adobe products, they get used quite a lot, by graphic designers, all three of these products. But what both those other products have, which I'm hoping Photoshop will have real soon, so just in case it does already, often you can, say this Ts & Cs here, you've typed it out, you can select on it, and there's an option on it that says Add Text. Not the Character Style, not the Text Color, the actual physical text. 


The nice thing about that, means that, whatever document I'm in, in Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign, I could just drag it out here and have the text that I need, and then add a Paragraph Style to it. But know that it's in those other two products, which are quite handy if you're-- might be doing your ads in InDesign as well, or Illustrator. You'll have a nice snippet of text there, ready to go all the time. Maybe your address or email address group. You know, phone number, email address, physical address, that sort of stuff. Non Photoshop, just yet. 


Now the other little trick is, again, Artboards are messy in here, we knew the trick from before, it’s 'Command', and if you click the arrows, they all close, they will open. Another little trick is, up here where it says Kind, you can click on this one that says Artboard. And what it does is, it only shows you the active Artboards. So if I click in here it shows me this one. So just nice and tidy. But I go to here, watch what happens to my layers. I click this one on the top left, and I click in something in here. I'm going to click on something in the Artboard up here, and hold 'Command' and click on this logo. And because I've jumped to that one, you can see, it's only showing me just this fella. So much nicer way of working. 


Same if I click on the name at the top. Can you see, it just jumps to that Instagram logo. And there I can work on this one, this one here, just nice and tidy. You can turn it off by clicking 'Artboard' now, and go back to 'Kind'. You're welcome. 
All right, that's it for advanced speed tricks. Let's look at the last one, where we look at exporting Artboards.

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