The eye dropper tool

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Course info

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.

Now let me help you earn more money, get that job and become more awesome!

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

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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Transcript

Now the next tool in your web designer toolkit  is gonna be the eyedropper tool. It's a nice easy tool for knowing which  color that you're working with. So it's hiding underneath the ruler tool. Okay? Um, it should be set to the eyedropper tool by default,  but we were using this earlier, remember? So I'm gonna use the eyedropper tool,  and it's just really good for picking color.

So I wanna know what color this green is. I'm gonna click on it, and you'll notice  that up here in my color swatches it points to it. And here in my foreground color, it selects it. Let's double click the foreground color down here,  and you'll notice that we get our HEXA decimal number. And this is the number that generally gets used in web  design to establish color. There are some other ways to do with RGBA,  which will look at later on,  but you can use these RGB colors as well if you need to.

Let's click okay. And  that is the eye drop tool for picking color. Let's say we want to use that color over  and over again in our document. What you can do is you can create what's called a swatch. Now, to do a swatch, let's say I want the speech color here. If I select it, I can move it in my swatch panels  and I can use this little fly out here that says New Swatch,  and it uses my foreground color that we've picked  with the eyedropper tool, and I can call this BYOL peach.

Click okay. Now,  what I'll do is you'll see him just appear in the end  of my little swatch panel here,  and it means that I get to reuse that when I need to. Let's say that I want to,  I'm gonna switch this back to black and white. I'm gonna use my rectangle tool. I'm gonna draw a rectangle and it's gonna be black. But what I can do is I can use this little dropdown,  and you'll see there's my peach color at the end  of my swatches, and I can reuse that color over and over.
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