Start your Web Design Career with Adobe Photoshop
What you'll learn
- Understanding the basics of Adobe Photoshop - You will learn how to set-up preferences, menus, workspace and use important keyboard shortcuts to speed up your process and kick start designing
- Basic Tools - You will be given an introduction to the basic tools such as the move tool, marqee tool, brush tool, pen tool and other tools
- Structure of a Photoshop document - You will learn the Anatomy of a Photoshop document
- Creating a new document - You will learn the best settings to use when creating a document specially for the web
- Layout Options - You will learn the best techniques to use when laying out the graphical elements within a web page
- Working with Layers
- Typography
- Importing Images
- Organizing Content - You will learn how to organize your layers in order to make it easier to access
- Saving for the Web - You will learn the best techniques to use when saving content for the web thus making sure it is in lower size and higher quality
- Adding Flexibility to the coder/Programmer - You will learn the new Copy CSS feature of Adobe Photoshop CS6 version 3.1.2 that allows you to auto generate CSS codes and save time for the coder
- By the end of the course you will have the right knowledge to create your own website design using the best tools and techniques of Adobe Photoshop CS6
Requirements
- You will just need a copy of Adobe Photoshop CS6 installed, no other prior requirements needed since the course starts all the way from the very basics
Description
This course takes you all the way from the very basics to having an incredibly confident handle in using the tools and techniques of Adobe Photoshop CS6 to design a simple but very attractive web page in less time.
The four key components of a great Website Design are:
- Layout
- Typography
- Color Scheme
- Design Elements
Adobe Photoshop is an application that allows you to do this effectively.
Rather than showing you each and every feature and making things complicated I will walk you through the best tools to use at the right time to achieve this goal.
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Who this course is for:
- Totally new to Adobe Photoshop or been using it for a while, this course is worthwhile taking to boost up your skills
Instructor
- 4.2 Instructor Rating
- 85 Reviews
- 6,735 Students
- 2 Courses
A tech savvy from Sri Lanka with a First Class Honours Degree in Computing from Buckinghamshire New University UK. I took up the post of IT Trainer in 2010 and have been training people from various different countries since then. I have a particular love for training and my main focus is to help trainees around the world to leverage their knowledge by applying the skills to a meaningful goal.
My primary focus of trainings are:
- Microsoft Office 2007/2010/2013
- Adobe Suite CS5/CS6
- Web Development in HTML/CSS/PHP/AJAX/JavaScript/JQuery/MySQL
- Crypto Investments and Trading