The ‘f’ key

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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.

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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Now this tool is really handy for when you want  to get a sense of how the website's gonna look without all  the junker on the outside, all the Photoshop tools  and tabs and toolbars. Now to do this, you go to view,  there's one called Screen Mode, and you use this one here. Now for some reason, I know it's the shortcut key of F,  but some reason on this Mac here,  I'm not sure if it's on a pc,  but it doesn't have the shortcut. So we're gonna ignore that little bit  and use the quick little shortcut key. So if I tap the F key once, it kind of hides half of it. So tap the F key again on my keyboard.

Okay. It gets rid of all the toolbars except for the rulers. Now what I wanna do is I'm gonna toggle back one more  and turn the rulers off. Rulers turn 'em off. And then remember once  for the F key, twice for the F key. And I can still,  I can see my document and I can move around it.

Remember, I can hold my space bar. Okay, I can move it around. And it gives me just a bit  of sense of what my website's looking like at the moment. Um, F key, A third time will get you back to square one. So there's kind of three settings. There's this one here,  and then there's the next one, and then there's full screen.

And they cycle around by using the F key. Now, another nice thing I like to do is I get F key twice  to get into this full screen mode is I don't like this white  background, especially when I'm dealing  with such a dark website. I want this background here, not be white. So what you can do, you can right click it  and pick either dark gray, okay, or right click it  and pick black, and it just changes the background color. If I zoom out, you'll notice that it changes forever. My little background color, if I have F key back, it's up  to you how you prefer to work.

Okay? I like to work on a dark screen  or dark gray just so I can get a nicer sense of my.
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