Photoshop for the In-House Designer

On August 9, 2018

Release date:2018, June

Duration:01 h 44 m

Author:Tony Harmer

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Many companies are bringing design in-house for greater creative control and cost efficiency. However, you may find the role of an in-house designer is very different from that of a freelancer. There is a stronger emphasis on templates and styles, consistent file output, and shared workflows. This course helps designers transition their Photoshop skills to in-house design work, with a focus on efficiency, compatibility, and collaboration. Designer and creative consultant Tony Harmer covers topics such as formatting Photoshop documents, making quick adjustments and selections, leveraging templates and presets, building libraries of assets and brushes, sharing your work, and finalizing files for export. Plus, get tips for generating assets for web and UX design, as well as print production, and creating animation and video in the Photoshop timeline.
Topics include:

Building templates
Organizing your layers
Managing presets
Sharing assets
Collaborating
Quick masking for mockups
Making brushes
Generating assets for web and UX
Creating animation and video
Saving files correctly

Table of Contents

Introduction
Introduction 1m 41s
1. Organization
Building an email template 5m 10s
Organizing layers 3m 17s
Filtering layers by content 1m 49s
Layer comps 3m 31s
Editing the toolbar 2m 49s
Managing presets 1m 42s
Shortcuts 3m
Metadata, boring but essential 2m 52s
2. Collaboration
CC Libraries and collaboration 4m 29s
Creative Cloud in the browser 2m 30s
Comments and version review 3m 15s
3. Visualization
Effective quick masking for mockups 4m 49s
Selections and the Camera Raw filter 3m 24s
Brushes from Creative Cloud 1m 3s
Making brushes in Adobe Capture 3m 53s
Photoshop Sketch 3m 32s
Using vector masks 6m 19s
Layers to files 1m 56s
4. Web and UX
CC Extract 4m 9s
CSS from Layers 2m 7s
SVG from Photoshop 1m 49s
Using Export As in Photoshop 3m 21s
Using the Generator 6m 3s
5. Animation and Motion
Creating animated GIFs from Photoshop 5m 38s
Editing video in Photoshop 6m 8s
Advanced options for video in Photoshop 4m 52s
6. Special Requirements
Separations 3m 7s
Multichannel images 1 4m 42s
Conclusion
Next steps 1m 14s