Efficient Design: Optimize Your Photoshop & Illustrator Workflow

Efficient Design: Optimize Your Photoshop & Illustrator Workflow

“Now I am going to make a brief review of all the steps I followed to make my final project: the design of all the parts of a jazz record and its assembly in mock-ups to elaborate a presentation. Remember that you can make a project with the same theme or also choose a different one, as long as they are coordinated elements and assembled in mock-ups, whatever you have more fun with! Get ready to start working After customizing the Illustrator and Photoshop workspace, and mastering the use of shortcuts, decide on the theme of your project, download images and illustrations to carry it out and sketch your first ideas. Design the pieces in Illustrator It's time to start designing. Choose the chromatic range you are going to work with, in the additional documents of Unit 3 you will find resources that can help you. Design all the parts of your project in Illustrator using the shortcuts and workflow tools to optimize your time. Then, download images of different media (mug, t-shirt, poster, etc.) and adapt your designs to them in Illustrator. Booklet: cover and back cover

Inlay, spines and labels Other applications Assemble presentation mock-ups in Photoshop In the additional resources you will find different pages where you can download PSD files to mount your mock-ups. Make sure they all have similar styles so that your final presentation has the same aesthetics and graphic coherence. Use smart objects and perspective deformations, and assemble and adjust your designs in mock-ups. It is interesting to make several montages where the different pieces are seen from different perspectives. This way, the client will have a much clearer and more realistic idea of your project. Ella & Louis t-shirt and poster Ella & Louis Present your finished project The last step will be to present your project and export it to the different media you may need. Using Photoshop's automations and actions, prepare a presentation PDF file, a folder with web-optimized JPG images. In addition, save all your packaged files: both your original Illustrator designs and the mock-ups you made in Photoshop. Also, take the opportunity to save in this folder a contact sheet of your montages. Remember that both my presentation and my Photoshop mock-ups and my Illustrator designs I have left them in the additional resources of the course so that you can use them as a guide or example. When you finish your final project, I will be very happy if you share with all of us the result of your work and the steps that led you to it, so that we can be inspired and enriched by your creativity and your whole work process. Likewise, I invite you to post your comments and questions in the forum, so we can enrich the community and learn from each other. Remember that I will always be watching your messages, although at some point it may take me a little longer to respond, either because I am working, in class or on a project. Thank you very much for joining me in the course. I have loved being your teacher, so it would be great if we could keep in touch, either through private messages, or through my Instagram profile. See you soon ”

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“Final project Hello, we have reached the end of the course. I hope the content was easy for you to understand, above all, that you have fully absorbed the concepts and that the things we talked about have seemed useful and interesting to you. I have tried to share with you my way of working step by step and some tips when designing. I trust that you can take advantage of it in your final project and in your future professional or personal projects. Now we are going to do a brief review of the main tips that you cannot forget when making your final project. Before you start, personalize your...”

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Course summary for: Efficient Design: Optimize Your Photoshop & Illustrator Workflow

• Level: Beginner
• 97% positive reviews (78)
• 3488 students
• 5 units
• 20 lessons (5h 6m)
• 9 downloads

• Category

  Design

• Software

  Adobe Illustrator, Adobe Photoshop

• Areas

  Design, Design Management, Digital Design, Graphic Design