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Price
$19
Course Type
Online
Duration
1 hour
Date
Various dates throughout the year
Entry Requirements
Beginner Level
About this course
Ideal course for a beginner to Photoshop.
Take this course and you will be able to.
- Produce your own clipart for apps and games.
- Produce your own clipart for website design.
- Produce your own style of clipart.
- Produce your own clipart or logo and own the copyright.
Take this course and you will quickly get up and running with.
- Setting up the Photoshop workspace and understanding the menus.
- Use of the tools required to producing clipart.
- The Pen tool.
- The Direct Selection tool.
- The Shape tool.
- The Paint Bucket tool.
- Constructing your first clipart.
- Applying effects such as colours, gradients, stroke, shadow and bevel to the clipart.
- Saving the clipart and reducing the file size for use in your media.
- Compositing several images into a single image.
Extras include an underwater clipart scene with a background and several sea creatures (with full psd files).
SEE THE CLIPART IN ACTION - CORAL CANYON game uses some of the clipart supplied in the course.
TAKE THIS COURSE and get started, you will have great fun along the way and a sense of success and achievement at the end.
What are the requirements?
- No prior knowledge of photoshop required
- Basic drawing skills only required
- A computer to run photoshop
- Adobe Photoshop (course done using CS6)
- Latest version is Adobe CC but this should work just as well as CS6
- You can get a Adobe CC free 30 day trial from the Adobe website
What am I going to get from this course?
- Over 22 lectures and 59 mins of content!
- Create your own clipart
- Understand and use several of the tools in photoshop
- Use the pen, direct selection, shape, move and paint bucket tools
- Transform, flip, rotate and scale shapes
- Understand the use of layers, copy and group layers
- Apply layer style effects such as stroke, shadow, bevel and gradient colour overlay to make stylized clipart
- Save the clipart for Web and reduce the file size
- Composite a scene
What is the target audience?
- This course is best suited for photoshop beginners
- You want to create your own clipart or logo and avoid copyright problems
- You don't want to pay for clipart
- You want to create you own clipart style
- Not suited for photoshop or graphic design experts
- 22 lectures and over 1 hour of content
