Adjusting your page edges

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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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Before we get into images I’m going to show you, - I find it tough to work to exact measurements.

Say 690 pixels wide, - that’s exactly what we should be working to, but I need to see a little buffer around the edges here, - a little bit of edging just to see what it’s going to look like when it’s sitting inside a bigger screen. So to do that I’m going to grab the Artboard tool.

It’s hiding underneath the Move tool. OK I’m going to click on this one here where it says LG Desktop. I’m going to scroll down till I get to the middle bits, - I’s going to drag this out a bit, drag that out a bit. It doesn’t really matter how far, because what’s going to happen is, if I turn my guides back on, you’ll see the guides are still where they should be. Ok they’re still at 960 wide including the padding on the outside.

So the next thing we need to do is, we’ve got a lot of boxes in here that aren’t the right size, so what I’m going to do is, I’m going to scroll down and find my nav bar. I’m going to hold command key down on my Mac, or control key on a PC.

I’m going to select all of the boxes that I need to go and change, and there’s the footer. I’m going to zoom out quite a bit so I can see everything, and what I’m going to do is, I’m going to use my transform tool, remember command T on a Mac, and control T on a PC.

Then I’m going to drag these out to match the size. If I hold down alt it will drag both sides with me evenly. OK make sure they’re overlapping a bit, they’re all kind of over the edge there. When you’re finished, hit enter on your keyboard, and it just gives a bit more breathing room.

I’m going to turn our guides off, which are still perfect. I’m going to zoom in a bit, and this is just going to give me a little breathing room around the outside, before I start working on the next part.

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