Before you started with the Photoshop to save your life course

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17 lessons / 1 hours

Overview

If you’ve ever struggled to maintain a consistent look and feel across all the touchpoints of your content marketing, this lab is for you. Beautiful design is only half the battle when you’re designing for an integrated campaign in which you have to deliver, repurpose, and repeat design elements consistently and efficiently. In this fun, fast-paced, hands-on lab with Adobe Certified Instructor Daniel Scott, learn how to professionally use Photoshop to repurpose your designs across multiple media and formats.

While becoming a design implementation wizard, you’ll learn:

  • How to structure content for multisize social imagery
  • The best workflows for social, print, ad banners, and video
  • The top tools for non-destructive design
  • How to master layers, artboards, Smart Objects, and libraries
  • How to become the master of productivity in your office

Course duration 1.5 hours
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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Alright, welcome to the course. Uh, the first thing we need to do is you need  to download the exercise files, okay? So you can play along with the rest of the course. Uh, there'll be a link on the screen here somewhere  and download those. Put them on your desktop and we'll get started. The other thing you can do is download.

I've got printed notes  that you can use, uh, throughout this course. Take your own notes. If you're old school,  wanna write stuff down on paper. Um, I'll jump into the screen now and show you where you  Download those. Alright. To download the workbook, it's free, go  to bring your own laptop.com, click on this resources tab,  along the top navigation.

Then you'll find it in here under this recent posts  or under this Photoshop tab. Okay. Give it a click and then click here. It says, download high res PDF, and that'll get you the PDF. You can download, it's free, print it off. It's for the people who love to kind  of make notes as they're going through.

Alright, two more things we'll do  before we get started, just so  that we're all following along the same is we need  to change our units of measurement. We're gonna use pixels in this class. So to change that, we're going to go to, I'm on a Mac here. So we go to Photoshop, cc preferences come down  to units and rulers. Okay? Click on that.

If you're on a pc, go up to edit. Okay? And come all the way down the bottom here  and you'll see your preferences. And once you find that, find that units and rulers. Alright? Once you've done it, just under here it says rulers,  change it to pixels.

Okay? You can change it back afterwards,  but let's just make sure we're  all looking at the same thing. Once you've done that, click okay. The other thing you're gonna do is just  to make sure our workspace looks the same. If we go a window, go to workspace  and just make sure it's set to essentials. Okay?

If it's not, got the little  techniques to it, click it again. Okay? And the other thing we're gonna do is reset the  essentials just so that it all looks the same. So if all the panels aren't mixed up, easy stuff. Let's get now started with all the fun stuff.
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