Adobe Photoshop Social Media Graphics Training

Learn to work with Photoshop to create imagery for social media including banners, icons and images. On the course you will create images and banners for Linkedin, Twitter and Facebook.

The Photoshop Training also shows you how to design and animate professional GIFS and produce short marketing videos using the Photoshop Timeline

Photoshop Interface

• Tools
• Panel overview

Photoshop Accurate Layout

• Grids / Guides / Rulers
• New Grid Layout
• Pixel settings
• Image Resize / Resolution / Artwork Sizing
• Artboards & Multiple Artboards

Working with Photoshop

• Navigating Photoshop
• Understanding Tools & Panels
• Path Tools for Vector Art

Designing for Social Media

• Creating Header Images
• Social Media Icons & Images
• Social Media Image Sizes
• Vector Design
• Creating Backgrounds
• Banners

Photoshop for Web

• Image Slicing
  (for blogs, eshots, sites)
• Slice Tool
• Editing Slices
• Exporting for Media

Photoshop GIF’s

• Timeline
• Understanding the Timeline
• Frames & Layers
• Frame Based Animations
• Animation Panel
• Animation
• Tweening

Photoshop for Social Media

• Design a Facebook header
• Create a Twitter background image
• Create images for WordPress background
• Create animated adverts

Photoshop Selection & Selection Techniques

• Lasso, Magnetic Lasso, Magic Wand, *Quick Select
• Feathering Selections
• Expanding / Reducing Selections
• Modifying / Transforming Selections
• Quick Masks
• Save / Load a Selection

Photoshop Essential Tools

• Transform /Free Transform Tool
• Perspective Tool
• Eraser / Background Eraser / Magic Eraser
• Crop Tool / Crop Tool Options

Photoshop Video

• Creating Video from Stills
• Working with mp4’s
• SmartObjects
• (working with the Timeline)
• Photoshop Filters
• Photoshop RAW Filter
• Remove Blemishes from Frames

Photoshop Video Tools

• Understanding Frames
• Frame Speed
• Frame Timing

Photoshop Exporting

• Exporting File Formats
• Export with H.264 codec
• (along with the HD 1080p 25)
• Export to GIF