Layers - find what you need quickly with layer search

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49 lessons / 3 hours

Overview

Web design skills are one of the most employable opportunities of our lifetime. In this course you’ll learn how to design a professional website in Photoshop. We’ll start right at the basics of Photoshop and work our way through to building professional website concepts.

I created this course for people new to the world of website design and Photoshop. I created this for people nervous about changing their careers into the world of web design.

You’ll learn how to design desktop, tablet and mobile versions of your website. You’ll learn what types of files and code are required at the end of your job. This course is for people serious about making money as a professional web designer.

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What are the requirements?

  • You'll need a copy of Photoshop CC 2015 or above. A free 30 day trial can be download from Adobe here.

  • No previous Photoshop or web design experience is necessary.

What am I going to get from this course?

  • 49 lectures 3 hours of content!

  • Forum support from me. 

  • All the techniques used by professional website designers.

  • Ways to preview your designs straight to your mobile device.

  • Firm understanding of responsive web design.

  • Professional workflows and shortcuts. 

  • A wealth of other resources and websites to help your new career path.

What is the target audience?

This course is for beginners. Aimed at people new to the world of web design. No previous experience is necessary. 

This course is NOT suited to people highly experience in the world of website mockups in Photoshop already.

Course duration 2 hours 43 mins

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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, in this video we’re going to show you how to use layers a little bit more.  Now there’s going to be times when you open a document, and you really want to find something particularly in the document, and rather than going through, and trying to find it through the search items, what you can do is you can use some of these search filters. ok - some of these layer filters along the top here.  

So what you can do is, say you want to find everything in this document that is typed, because say you’ve changed the body copy font from Roboto back to Arial for some reason.  ok, what you can do is filter just the layers, - can you see these just have the type, and what I could do is click the top one, hold shift, click the last one, and go up here into my type tool, and change them all to Arial.  ok, and I’ll pick Arial bold.   Now you’ll see everything is now Arial, ok,  it’s a nice easy way to do that.  I’m going to undo that because I don’t like Arial. 

Say you want to go through and start playing with the colours, what you can do, is you can click on this one here.  It’s just our shapes layers ok, so all our rectangles appear.  Say you’ve got a group of things that have a drop shadow on it, and you want to go and change the drop shadow.  What you could do is, you go to this one, go to effects, and use this drop down here, and see that everything that has a drop shadow has appeared. 

I’ve got nothing using a drop shadow in this case, so I’ve got nothing showing  in my layers panel here, and if you get to a point where you didn’t  realise you changed this, or you’ve opened up another document, and it’s got this layer effect of applied to it, what you can do is just flick the switch there to off, and it goes back to normal.  You can turn it on and off to toggle between the last search and everything  is back on.

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