Tag Archive for: photoshop

Textile and Fashion Design with Photoshop and Illustrator

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Do you need to design for fabric? Trying to create realistic textile or clothing? This session will act as a quick overview of the tools and skills you need to understand to be successful. Topics include:

  • Scanning, coloring, and rendering hand-drawn illustrations
  • Using filters and brushes to simulate textures such as linen, flannel, wool, denim, or fur
  • Manipulating patterns and textures with the Transform and Puppet Warp tools
  • Using Symbols for maximum flexibility

The Most Important Skill in Photoshop: Quality Selections and Masks, Part 2

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In Part 1 of this two-part tutorial, we learned the basics of making great selections (masks) in Photoshop. Now, let’s look at “next steps,” including:

  • How to end up with a great selection
  • The power of channels for making challenging selections
  • How to mask a mask

Advanced Pattern and Tessellation Tricks

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In Part 1 of this tutorial, you learned how to make basic patterns in Photoshop, Illustrator, and Capture. Now, it’s time to take it to the next level with tessellations (regularly repeating patterns)! Learn tricks of the trade by a professional with years of pattern-making experience!

  • Making seamless repeating patterns
  • Patterns that appear 3D
  • The 17 core patterns of the Alhambra palace
  • Random vs regular patterns

Photoshop + Illustrator + InDesign: How Three Apps Work as One

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It’s the ultimate Adobe power-trio: InDesign, Photoshop, and Illustrator! But you’ll never be efficient with any one of them if you don’t understand how they work with the others!

Topics include:

  • How to properly set up Photoshop and Illustrator files for InDesign
  • Choosing between layers and artboards
  • CC Libraries: the secret back door conduit
  • Best practices for managing vectors and pixels

The Most Important Skill in Photoshop: Quality Selections and Masks, Part 1

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One of the most important skills in Photoshop is making selections (sometimes called masks) – and doing it quickly without too much effort. In this two-part session, you’ll learn the most important tools and techniques for selecting and masking, and the role of channels. You’ll see how to use selection tools individually and together, how to fine-tune your selections, and how to take full advantage of layer masks and channels.

In Part 1 you’ll learn:

  • The magic of the Select and Mask feature
  • Tips for getting the most out of layer masks
  • The 5 most important selection tools in Photoshop

See Part 2.

Patterns: Find Them, Make Them, Edit Them

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Patterns are everywhere! But as much as Adobe wants you to think it’s easy as clicking a button, creating and using great patterns is an art as much as science. Whether you’re creating patterns for textile/fashion design or print, it’s critical that you understand what makes a great pattern work.

Topics include:

  • Big patterns: From wallpaper to wrapping paper
  • Tips and shortcuts for building high-quality patterns with Illustrator, Photoshop, or Textile designer

This session is Part 1 of 2. See Part 2.

Three Minutes Max: Photoshop

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Everyone loves Photoshop tips — from amazing (but useful) special effects, to essential productivity enhancements, every trick helps! Join us as 8 Photoshop experts from around the world each share their best Photoshop tip or trick in under 3 minutes. Next: you get to vote for which one is best! This is traditionally one of the highlights of CreativePro Week, when attendees gasp with delight and astonishment.

Working Happier Not Harder with Photoshop and Illustrator 2021

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Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop are incredibly rich and deep apps, with a 25+ year history behind them. Many people still use them the way they were taught 10 or 20 years ago. Stop it! Get up to speed with the amazing new features that have appeared over the past few years, so that you can become more productive, more efficient, and more creative with this amazing tool.

Wow: Photoshop Projects

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You know what we’re talking about: Those images where you just stop, stare, and say: wow. Here’s a treat for every Photoshop user: an opportunity to go deeper and see how some of these “wow” images were created, constructed, shot, layered, and finished.

Designing for Social Media

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It’s a fast-paced social media world we’re living in, and “good” is not good enough these days to catch people’s attention. In this fast-paced session, we’ll demonstrate some of our favorite techniques for making the good look great, whether you’re using desktop or mobile apps.