Photoshop for Web Design By Carl Heaton

Course Description

Photoshop for Web Design course is a beginner-friendly guide to using Photoshop for web design. The instructor has years of experience with Photoshop and has created thousands of designs, making this course perfect for anyone new to web design who wants to learn the essential tools and skills used by professionals.

In the first lesson, you’ll learn how to open a new document and set it up correctly for web design. Then, you’ll explore how to use different types of brushes and install new ones to add cool effects to your designs. You’ll also learn about using custom shapes, which are key to creating web page layouts and other design elements.

The course covers the most important feature of Photoshop: layers. You’ll discover how to work with layers and group them for better organization. You’ll also learn useful shortcuts for moving and resizing layers using the free transform tool, which you’ll often need when designing.

Next, you’ll dive into the zoom and pan tools, which help you navigate your design and focus on details. The course also explains blending modes, which allow two layers to interact with each other, and various effects like shadows and gradients.

One of the trickier aspects of Photoshop is working with text, but this course will show you easy ways to handle it. Finally, you’ll put everything together by creating a clean and professional webpage design using grids and other tricks to organize your layout.

By the end of the course, you’ll have a solid understanding of Photoshop’s core tools and be able to design your own web pages with confidence.