Photoshop Basics 💻🎨✨

An ITP-Centric Quick & Dirty Intro to Photoshop

Videos series with all you need to know to:

• Make your documentation photos look better
• Export files in the best format for your needs — printing, web, high-res devices, project signage, memes and what nots.
• Automate and batch process a large number of files.
• Organizing photoshop project files and workflow for your sanity.

All you need to get started is to have photoshop installed.

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TUTORIALS

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1. Why Photoshop? (Part 1 Video»)

   • Photoshop vs. Illustrator vs. InDesign?
   • The appropriate file format?
   • The appropriate file units?
   • The appropriate color space?
   • General workflow

2. Understanding the workspace (Part 2 Video»)

   • tools, panels, workspaces
   • layers & masks
   • blendmodes
   • adjustments layers & smart objects
   • guides

3. Demos: Exporting Variations of a File (Part 3 Playlist»)

   • For Print (video 3.1»)
     • pdf
     • tiff
   • For web
   • jpg, png, gif (video 3.2»)
   • @2x
   • animated gif (video 3.3»)
   • videos
   • Batch processing files
     • w/ actions (video 3.4»)
     • w/ layer comps (video 3.5»)
   • Conclusion (video 3.6»)

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OTHER TIPS: Workflow Hygiene & Stuff (Coming soon, sry. 😁)

• File organization and versioning
• Layer organization
• Guide guides and other extensions
• Canvases & Artboards
• Custom hot keys
• Batch renaming files with automator
• And of course, Lynda
  Log in via nyu.edu/lynda for free access.

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Further Reading:

• Understanding more about color modes, bit depth, color space, resolution: Lynda Photoshop Essentials, Section 3.
• Slides used in the Videos »
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Thanks for watching! ✨💩✨
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