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Exploring the Essential Features of “Mandi Lynn – Photoshop Basics for Authors”
Video Lessons
Learn some of the most important tools that Photoshop has to offer through comprehensive video lessons. With lifetime access to the course, you can work through the lessons at your own pace and re-watch whenever you need a refresher.
Keyboard Shortcuts Printable
Photoshop offers countless tools, and the more you use Photoshop, the more you’ll love keyboard shortcuts! With a printable PDF (for MAC and PC) you’ll have reminders to the most common keyboard shortcuts at your fingertips.
Learn to Design
This course covers the basics of Photoshop, especially designed for authors who don’t have any experience with the software. In the last lesson of the course, we take everything we’ve learned to design a business card.
What can you use Photoshop for?
Photoshop is a tool with endless potential! Perhaps the most powerful part of learning Photoshop is that it gives you the ability to design your own book covers, saving you hundreds, and even thousands of dollars as an indie author. If you want to learn book cover design, make sure to enroll in the entire Book Cover Design Course Bundle.
Not only can Photoshop be used to design book covers, but you can also use it to design endless types of marketing materials such as business cards, bookmarks, social media graphics, and so much more!
Testimonials
“I had absolutely no previous experience with Photoshop and the course truly gave a basic overview, just as it promised to do. I feel more confident moving on to the next stage of learning Cover Design and would highly recommend taking this course first to anyone that like me, has no knowledge of Photoshop.” ~Charmaine B.
“I’ve debated using Photoshop for a long time, and when I finally made the leap, I found it overwhelming. I understood some of the basics, but your course helped me understand more than I could have if I had continued experimenting on my own.” ~Jamie Lee Fry
“This course is an essential first step to learning how to design your own covers. Mandi Lynn’s teaching style is effective while also leaving room for you to customize to your preferences. As someone who loves having creative control, I truly appreciated the knowledge and creative freedom that this course provides!” ~Alli Earnest
Purchase the Book Cover Design Course Bundle
Want to do more than just learn the basics of Photoshop? Purchase the entire Book Cover Design Course Bundle so you can learn everything you need to know to design your own book cover from start to finish:
1 – Photoshop Basics for Authors: Beginner – Tutorials on Photoshop
2 – Typography in Book Cover Design: Intermediate – Adding Text to Book Covers
3 – Designing Book Covers in Photoshop: Advanced – Photomanipulation Book Cover Tutorials
What do I need to take this course?
Any skill level can take this course, even if you’ve never used Photoshop before! You will need access to a laptop/computer that can support Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud. View system requirements from Adobe here.
There are a couple versions of Photoshop, but the version I use to teach the course is Adobe Photoshop Creative Cloud. Please note that other versions of Photoshop may not have all the features that I used and feature in the course.
Photoshop is compatible with PC and MAC.
Who Should Enroll in this course?
This course is perfect for authors who want to learn the basics of Photoshop and design their own marketing material. This course is also the first in my Book Cover Design Course Bundle.
Photoshop for Authors does not teach book cover design. It teaches a basic understanding of Photoshop and some of it’s most powerful tools so when you move on to taking my other course in the Book Cover Design Course Bundle, you will already have a basic understanding of the tools needed to design book covers.
You should consider enrolling in Photoshop for Authors if you’ve never used Photoshop before and wish to take my other courses in the Book Cover Design Course Bundle.
If you have some experience with Photoshop, then it’s possible you can skip this course and move on to the other courses in the Book Cover Design Course Bundle. However, please review the course curriculum and ensure you have a clear understanding of all tools. You should have a clear understanding of layers, clipping masks, creating selections, masking, removing objects from photos, and using and installing Photoshop brushes. If any of this isn’t familiar to you, I recommend taking this course.
Get a Look at the Course Curriculum:
Getting Started…
Things to Know About This Course… (3:21)
Photoshop PDF keyboard shortcuts printable
Module One: Learning to Navigate Photoshop
Creating your workspace (16:19)
Reviewing Photoshop tools (9:18)
Creating a canvas in Photoshop (6:51)
Module Two: Basic Editing in Photoshop
Basics photo corrections (8:28)
Removing people and objects from photos (9:27)
Module Three: The Magic Behind Photoshop: Making Selections
What are layers, selections and masks? (8:24)
Photoshop layers: Use, organization, style effects and more (12:21)
How to make a selection in Photoshop (6:56)
Using the pen tool to make selections (11:03)
Creating masks from selections (7:17)
Module Four: Additional Tools to Help You Design
Basics of text in Photoshop (5:04)
Using Photoshop brushes and where to get them (10:19)
Put it all together: Design a Business Card (12:53)
Before you go…
What’s next? (1:07)
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