Screen sizes for desktop, tablet & mobile

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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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Hi. In this video we're gonna look at screen resolution versus  our actual pixel size. So this can be a little confusing when you are starting,  you're thinking, great, I'm gonna do a mockup  for an iPhone six. And you go off into Photoshop  and you go, all right, here's the dimensions. You Google it and it says it's this pixel width  by this pixel height. And you decide, all right, I'm gonna make that.

So I'm gonna go into Photoshop,  I'm gonna make a new document. It's gonna be seven 50 by this 1, 3, 3, 4,  and you make it, okay, you end up with this size here. Now this isn't the true size it's going to be, okay. Let's look back at that website here,  and we'll see that it's the CSS width that we really need  to observe when we are designing for mobile. Because we all know that mobile phones, apart from a couple  of them, are all very similar in size. Okay?

But what will happen is it's this pixel ratio here. You can see when it is one-to-one  that it is whatever physical size it is,  it's the actual size of the screen here. There's no real density. And if you've seen an old iPhone  three, you'll notice that the graphics aren't great,  but it's the physical same size as uh, an iPhone six. But what happens is when you get this denser pixel ratio,  the same physical size, we see it's doubled here. The actual pixels get a lot bigger,  but the actual size of the phone is exactly the same.

Okay? And you'll notice, like say this LG G four,  this one here has a picture ratio of four. So it's quite a small phone, okay? Same sort of sizes as the iPhone six,  but you can see it's hugely bigger in terms  of its physical width. But if we have a look at it here in comparison  with each other, they're actually not that different. Okay?

Slightly bigger. The iPhone six is slightly bigger,  but not a huge big jump as in this indication here. So that can be quite confusing when you're new. The basics are, is that when you're designing a Photoshop,  designing for this physical size will give you the best  representation of the actual phone rather than following  these physical pixel widths over the site here.
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