Do you think that UI Designers use Photoshop in the same way as other Designers?
Do you know what are the basic concepts, settings and tools UI Designers know and you don’t?
Do you think that UI Designers use Photoshop in the same way as other Designers?
Do you know what are the basic concepts, settings and tools UI Designers know and you don’t?
So if you want to learn UI Design with Photoshop and upgrade your confidence and Skill levels in Photoshop; this course is for YOU. This course is equally good for Beginners and Experts so don’t worry if you haven’t used Photoshop before.
Most of us don’t know the basic settings, shortcuts, tools and extension we need in Photoshop to become a UI Designer, we make same mistakes and keep on wasting time online searching for different settings and answers to common UI Design issues and problems.
What you will learn?
Course Structure
Student Request Lecture Series
A lot of lectures are added on weekly basis on the request of my current students so join in and request any design problem or anything new you want to learn
Take This Course Now and Start your career as a UI Designer
Become a UI Designer from scratch. Learn the secret tips, techniques, methods used to create awesome User Interfaces for Mobile and Web App
Start with a solid foundation in UI Design and Learn the tool part of UI Design Process
In this video, you will learn why User Interface Design matters and why you should never devalue it
This lesson focuses on tweaking Photoshop performance and settings for UI Design
In this lecture, we will learn how to set our color proof photoshop settings for less color mismatch problems
Updated: Color profile settings are crucial so your designs colors are rendered same across all the devices. A lot of new designers make this mistake and regret in the end when they need to create the whole design again
Custom made shortcuts make your design life so easy...Don't miss out this lesson. We will create shortcuts only for the tasks we are going to do over and over again. And we are free to set whatever shortcut key we like for Photoshop
Students who are having problems setting up keyboard shortcuts on MAC OS, this video is for you
Learn how to setup your Photoshop Workspace and Panels for UI Design. We
will create custom panel and remove the extra panels we don't need
Watch this video to learn which Monitor is best for Web Design and UI Design work
Download all PSD files and resources from this link
How Photoshop controls and interface work. We will cover how to access the options of any tool we use in Photoshop
Photoshop CC2017 has option to customize the toolbar and also its shortcut keys. In this lesson, i will show you how to customize your toolbar
How to create New Document for UI Design purpose, what resolution should it be, what tools and extensions should be around in your workspace
In this lesson, you will learn all about Photoshop's art-boards. How to create them and how to use them, how to arrange or move them or edit their sizes.
In this lesson, you will learn about How Layers works, what is their stacking order. How to use Transparency in layers and how to use Layer Fill property
In this lesson, i will show you how to filter and find different types of layers using Photoshop's filter options in Layers Panel
What settings are necessary for Text and Paragraph Tool in Photoshop for UI Design and what options they have for a UI Designer
You will learn how to use kerning, tracking, leading and all the options available in Character panel.
In this lesson, you will learn all the options available in Paragraph Panel like Hyphenate, Indentations and alignements
Learn the powerful shape tool, we will cover how to combine different shapes to create new ones and how to subtract one shape from another
Pen tools is used in combination of Direct Selection tool and Shapes tool. So i will cover few tips on how to use all these tools combined in UI Design
It is a student request lecture. In this lesson, i explained in detail that how pen tools works and how to stroke its path and how to create basic icons with it. We will do two basic exercises to create a profile icon and an eye icon
How many kinds of selection UI Designers use while working in Photoshop. What are the shortcuts and ways to create, add or subtract selections
How to align multiple objects in Photoshop and how to horizontally and vertically space them with custom shortcut keys
Clipping masks are used a lot of in UI Design process. This lecture will cover how to create clipping masks and how to apply them to UI Design
Try to create this simple UI by using only clipping masks and shapes. If you can't then download my PSD exercise file to investigate
Layer masks are also used to hide portions of layers, we will see how to do that in this lecture
Learn the use of Smart Objects in UI design. Smart Objects is one of the latest Photoshop featuers
Learn how we can use linked smart objects to save time and create Headers and Footers across multiple Designs and can edit them from one place and it will be changed on all others
In this lesson, we are are going to use layer comps to show different states of a single button and in the end we will export different layers comps to PSD files
In this lecture, i will show you the difference of shortcut keys of Photoshop for MAC and Windows users so MAC users gets what my shortcuts are actually as i am using Windows OS in my lectures
We will learn all the daily routine Photoshop keyboard shortcuts along with some custom keyboard shortcuts we created in previous lecture. These Photoshop keyboard shortcuts help a lot in speeding up your work
Smart guides and snapping helps us a lot in placing your elements on your Photoshop canvas. This feature is available in latest releases of Photoshop CC2017 and CC2018
Lets check the knoweldge of Photoshop Basic Tools we use in UI Design
This video solves the problem of how to access Toolbar Dropdown menu. And why your layers and artboards sizing are mis-matching. And the problem "Why my Layer Effects are not visible"?
All these questions were asked by Alexandra Velez
We will create a rounded button with Multiple drop shadows to understand how light and shadow works while using Drop Shadow layer style in Photoshop
In this lesson we will learn how to apply inner shadow which we normally see in a lot of BUTTONS
Stroke effect have multiple uses in UI Design, it can be used as border or used in Ghost Buttons...We will see all that in this lecture
We will learn how to save layer styles in Photoshop and use them further in any other UI design elements
Gradients are basically blend of two or more than 2 colors in a continuous way, i will disucss one online tool to blend Material and Flat UI Design colors
In this lecture, we will look at various examples of using gradients in web and UI designs and i will also give tips for starters on which colors to use for gradients
I will talk about 3 ways to create gradients in Photoshop and few tips on which one to use and which one to avoid
In this lecture, we will deep dive into Photoshop Gradient Overlay Layer effect and understand its settings
We look deep dive into Gradient Editor and will learn how to create and edit new gradients, how to save them and how to save your whole gradient library
We will have a quick look at different examples where patterns have been used, i will give few tips on how to use patterns and what patterns are
In this lecture, we will learn pattern overlay layer style and pattern fill methods to apply patterns in Photoshop
In this lesson we will download an image pattern file and will create a pattern from it using Photoshop and will apply it to some shape or layer
In this lecture, we will learn how to download, install and use ready made .PAT pattern files in Photoshop
In this quiz, i will give your an image and you need to tell me what layer style i have used in each situation.
In this lecture, we will look at the use of light and shadow in UI Design to create elevated or Pressed effects mostly seen in many User Interfaces, websites and apps.
I will show you some of the examples from Dribbble so you can get more grip on the usage of light and shadows in UI Design
In this lecture we will learn, how many colors to use in a UI Design effectively
We will learn how to get color schemes from logo or branding and basics of getting more colors using Hue bar in Photoshop
I will talk about few tools i use the most for creating color schemes or getting all the shades of any color
This list contains all the tools i use for creating color schemes, download the PDF for all the resources
In this lecture, i will show you online tools to combine and pair typography and how to choose fonts for Beginners
Ready Made Typography Resources for all the beginners out there
In this lecture, i will teach you the basics of Grids, gutters and margins and how to use grids while you are designing in Photoshop
In this lecture, i will discuss two ways to create Grids in Photoshop, one is Photoshop's default grid layout system and other is a plugin called GuideGuide
This video about using Bootstrap Grids in Photoshop was an answer to a question a student asked me inside a course. So please watch it on my YouTube channel
All the links to Helpful Scripts for Web and Mobile App Designers to speed up workflow in Photoshop
Learn how to install Photoshop Scripts and set keyboard shortcuts to them, Download the resources file for some Script Resources
In this lesson, i will show you how to find Photoshop's Preset folder to install Scripts, patterns, gradients, color swatches using MAC Operating System.
A lot of my students were having problems using MAC OS to install scripts so here is a little help for MAC users.
Download all the Free Extensions used by UI Designers, along with the ZXPInstaller to install some of the extensions and plugins that use ZXP installer
You will learn how many file formats these Photoshop extension comes in and how to install each type of extension in Photoshop. Also learn how to install these extension manually
How to install manually and using ZXP Installer on MAC OS using Photoshop CC2018
We will talk about Photoshop Free and Premium extensions and how they help us in speeding up the Web or Mobile UI Design process
In this lesson, i am going to show you how these extensions help you speed up your workflow. You will see how these Photoshop Extension works like a Super Power and saves time and efforts. See me using some of the extensions for UI Design work
For those students who are using CS6 version of Photoshop, they can't use rounded corners and few plugins so here are a list of links and plugins they can use in CS6
We will learn about color calibration tools available and how to use online tools to calibrate your monitor colors
We will perform color calibration on Windows and Mac using only operating system based software or drivers
This quiz is related to color calibration and monitors a web designer or a UI Designer needs
Try to create a soft Button in Photoshop using dropshadows and stroke effect or Download PSD file to check how i created it
Step by step guide on how to use Stroke, clipping masks and drop shadows to create soft button in Photoshop
In this lesson, i will show you a 3D button made with Photoshop and will give you some hints...Try to make this button without seeing the PSD file attached
Then open my PSD file and checkout what i had done to create this button...
Pressed or Inset effect is used a lot in UI Design for showing state of pressed button. In this lecture, we will master creating this Pressed or Inset effect in Photoshop
In this lecture we are going to create awesome and Modern Hero (Header) area which are very trendy these days. I will be using Griddify and Quick Guides Photoshop plugins during the lecture...
This is the first part of the lecture, watch the second part to complete this exercise
In this lecture we are going to create awesome and Modern Hero (Header) area which are very trendy these days. I will be using Griddify and Quick Guides Photoshop plugins during the lecture...
Using images wisely and creating less content heavy Hero areas is the essence of popular websites these days
This is the second part of the lecture, watch the second part to complete this exercise
We will create another variation of the previous Modern Hero Area Design with rounded elevated button and few more edits. Its a bit more airy design for the same header
In this lesson we are going to create a very Modern looking Hero Header area using some grids, margins and Color overlay adjustment layer. This technique is very popular among web designers or even used in UI and App designs
In this lecture, we will use a masked black to white gradient to create a gradually image hiding effect. We are going to design a great and Modern header with this technique
This is the intro lecture in which i will show you what we will be designing in the next two lessons.
In this lesson, you will learn how to design the naked tabs interface in Photoshop
In this lesson, you will learn how to design the filled tabbed navigation using Photoshop
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