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Raster Design

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Overview

Master pixel-based design by understanding raster graphics, color spaces, file formats, and layered editing techniques, building practical image editing skills with Photopea and industry-standard workflows.

Syllabus

  • Welcome to Raster Design
    • Welcome to the digital arts world! From billboards to mobile ads, photography and pixel-based designs dominate. This lesson explores raster design, pixels, colors spaces and photo-editing software!
  • Introduction to New Terminology, File Types & Formats
    • This lesson covers technical aspects of image editing; it delves into raster-based design, file types, compression methods and metadata.
  • Digital Development: an Introduction to Raster Software
    • This lesson introduces raster editing with Photopea. It emphasizes transferable skills and industry standards like .psd files. We cover the toolbar basics, importing, resizing and common tools.
  • Introduction to Layers
    • Layers are fundamental in design. There are adjustment and content layers. We will examine both and also look at blend modes for style and nuance. Additionally we cover organization and hierarchy.

Taught by

Joshua Wilder Oakley

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