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Essential Skills for Designers – Masking

Learn everything you need to know about masking techniques in Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign…

Essential Skills for Designers – Masking

 

Masking is an essential skill for any Graphic Designer, Photographer, or Retoucher as it allows you to combine multiple photos into a single image and can help to remove a person, object, etc from a photo that otherwise you may not have been able to use.

This course thoroughly explains everything you need to know about masking techniques in Adobe’s three core applications: Photoshop, Illustrator, and InDesign.

Let’s take a closer look at what you will learn:

  • The course will start by providing you with some useful resources for creative professionals, like design terms to ensure you are familiar with, useful websites to bookmark, and a way to get to grips with keyboard shortcuts. Which can half your working time!
  • Then we will start by mastering the basic concepts and techniques behind masking, how to hide/show details, and basic workflows.
  • Then we will move into the biggest chapter of the course and learn about the many different ways you can set up and make use of masks in Photoshop. Here learn about, making adjustments, creative masking, masking with gradients, masking with objects, using clipping masks, and loads more.
  • Next, you will learn about how to set up and make use of masks in Illustrator. The main focus of this chapter will be on clipping and opacity masks.
  • Finally discover how you can set up and use masks in InDesign, something not a lot of people are aware of! This can be achieved with image frames, clipping effects within a frame, and using feathering effects.

This course includes:

  • 18 Videos
  • 2 Hours of learning content
  • 2 Downloadable resources

Martin is an Adobe Certified Instructor who has years of experience teaching both online and in classroom environments.

Learn everything you need to know about Masking techniques so you can start incorporating them into your workflow in the fastest and most efficient way possible by enrolling in this course.

Who this course is for:

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