Materials for Photoshop Tips & Tricks, developed by Zoe Rooney for Girl Develop It - Philadelphia.
The course is meant to be taught in a single 2 hour workshop.
Photoshop is one of the most popular tools out there for web design. In this course, you'll learn how designers and front-end developers use Photoshop as part of their workflow. If you've ever wondered if you're making the most use of Photoshop when you're designing, or if you're creating files that are optimal for making the transition to development, this course is for you.
In this workshop, we'll cover:
- Setting up and saving your Photoshop workspace for web work (including units, tools & shortcuts)
- Tips and tricks for setting up your files for pixel-perfection
- Organizing your files and working with layers
- Working with graphics in a way that optimizes "code-ability"
- Slicing and saving for the web
You'll walk away a Photoshop-for-web-design power-user, with lots of tricks, efficiencies, and shortcuts at your fingertips for your next site project.
This course is open to all coding proficiency levels - we may reference some basic HTML and CSS concepts but we won't be writing any code. It's also open to varying levels of Photoshop proficiency, HOWEVER if you have never touched a copy of Photoshop, you will likely find it helpful to take the Photoshop for Beginners class first as we will not be covering every detail of the interface and the more basic tools (e.g. selection tools, zoom tools).
Required Software: Photoshop
With a free Creative Cloud membership, you can download a 30-day trial version of Photoshop - https://creative.adobe.com/plans - just make sure you've downloaded (and preferably opened) Photoshop prior to the class so you're certain it's fully installed and working on your computer!
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First, download the zip file of all materials in this repository using the Download Zip button on the right side of the screen:
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Open the zip file on your computer. In the folder, there is an /example-files/ folder with example PSD files and extra images.
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To view the slideshow, open the index.html file in your web browser. The easiest way to navigate the slides is with your keyboard arrow keys.
You can change theme colors by changing the theme css to any of the following options:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/theme/gdidefault.css" id="theme">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/theme/gdilight.css" id="theme">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/theme/gdisunny.css" id="theme">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="css/theme/gdicool.css" id="theme">You can change the text editor theme by changing the highlight.js css to the following options:
<link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/css/dark.css">
<link rel="stylesheet" href="lib/css/light.css">You can change transition by changing the reveal transition property in Reveal.initialize
Reveal.initialize({
transition: 'default', // default/cube/page/concave/zoom/linear/none
});