Creative Layer Styles in Adobe Photoshop - A Graphic Design for Lunch™ Class

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make whimsical designs to use for scrapbook papers, backgrounds, wall papers and for print on demand use by combining basic patterns with your own custom created displacement maps. The resulting images display a whimsical and irregular look which is difficult to achieve otherwise in Photoshop. While this class is taught using Photoshop CC, the instructions apply to pretty much any version of Photoshop. 

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make whimsical rotated patterns in Photoshop which look way harder to make than they really are. The patterns are all made from a single starting design and you will learn to make different looking patterns from one starting design. The designs can be made in any version of Photoshop. These are three of the designs we will make:

Create Social Media Graphics with Adobe Photoshop: Clipping Mask, Transparency, Resizing Images, Brushes, Artboards, Shapes, And Images inside Text.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to fix every day photos quickly and easily. We will use Adobe Camera Raw to fix the images - this is a professional photographers' tool but the best kept secret is that it rocks for everyday use when you know how to use it. You will find it is an awesome and easy tool to use and you may be surprised to see how great your photos look in just a few easy edits. 

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make a pattern of isometric cubes. You will learn to make the basic pattern and to recolor it and then how to make a cube in cube pattern and to color it. You will learn to harness the power of Smart Objects in designing this pattern too.

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to create cutout photos and frame effects. You will learn to use clipping masks, layer masks and to rotate shapes. This is one of the effects you'll learn to make:

NOTE: Head on over to the project section of the class to locate the photos and files used in this class!

Have you ever wanted to walk through the creation of a package design? This class will help you add package design as a new skillset and help you add stunning pieces to your design portfolio.

We will walkthrough the entire layout, concept and graphic design process for a package of cookies.

We will take time to learn Photoshops many tools to cut, isolate and adjust our food photos to create enticing images for the front of our package. We will create realistic shadows, blend our two photos together and bring out colors that make our mouth water.

We will bring our basic assets into Adobe Illustrator and work on our layout design. We will walk through graphic design layout principles to create a compelling high contrast layout that will draw eyes to our product from store shelfs.

Photoshop for Entrepreneurs : Design an Infographic

Graphic Design for Lunch™ is a series of short video courses you can study in bite size pieces such as at lunchtime. In this course you'll learn to make an entire piece of art all in the Appearance panel - all the pieces - the number, cactus leaves, spines, flowers and the pot are one single Appearance. This is seriously mind bending stuff!