Masking images for rounded courses & circles

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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.

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  • 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.

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  • 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. 

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Course duration 2 hours 43 mins

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Daniel Scott

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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.

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Alright. This video is the same technique  but a slightly different flavor. We're gonna look at, uh, using a clipping mask,  but using circles and rounded corners. Now I'm gonna do it for,  see down the bottom here is my kind of finished example. I'm gonna do it down the bottom here in this white part  where I've got my team's kind of photographs. So I'm gonna do is I'm gonna scroll down here using my  space bar, okay?

And I'm gonna zoom in using my command plus  until I get down the bottom  and I'm going to click hold down the rectangle tool, click  and hold it down till I get to the lips tool. Now the lips tool, if I click  and drag it, it's gonna give me  kind of a lips that goes anywhere. Now, if I hold down the shift key,  remember I lock the height and width, okay? To a size that I need. And what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna turn on my guides  and I'm gonna delete that. And I'm gonna draw one that spans, say three columns.

So I'm gonna hold shift down  and I'm gonna get it so it snaps to these three. I'm gonna grab my move tool,  I'm gonna move it down a little bit. Now it doesn't really matter what color it is  because just like we did the last image,  it's gonna get covered up by the image. So let's go to file and let's go to place embedded. We're gonna grab the desktop,  we'll grab Photoshop exercise files. There's team one, which is gonna be the first  one I'm gonna hit place.

Okay, now I'm gonna move it  so it's kind of over the top here. And I'm gonna hold shift, scale it down  before I hit enter, just to get it to kind  of appropriate size. So I'm gonna move it in roughly about there. We can resize it afterwards. And remember, here's our, our lips. And this one's gonna be team circle.

Let's gimme team circle one. Okay? And I'm going to remember, hold down my alts key on a PC  or option key on a Mac. And it's gonna join the two. Now if you're unhappy with the crop,  remember I can click this one that says Team one,  and I can use my arrow keys just to tap it  around to get it to where I want. I can transform it using my command T.

Okay? And I can scale it up, head enter, use my keys just  to tap it around again, right? And that's how you cro to a circle. I'll quickly do how you crop to a rounded corners. Okay? If you are using rounded corners, click  and hold down the rectangle tool or the ellipse tool.

And there's one here called rounded corners. Now before we get started, pick a radius. If you're unsure, don't worry, you can change it afterwards. I'm gonna click and drag. Okay? And this little box here will allow me  to change the radius corners.

So I'm gonna change the radius corners  to say something like 30. Okay, big, massive, rounded corners. Then I can bring in another image. I can go to file place embedded. I'm gonna bring in team two. Place it over the top, scale it down, hit enter.

And remember holding down the alt key  or option key, depending if you're on Mac or pc. And it will crop to the rounded corners rectangle. Alright? That's how to crop to a circle  and a rectangle with rounded corners.
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