Layers

Whether you’re an experienced creative professional or someone who has just recently purchased a camera, learning how to use Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best investment you can make to get the most out of your images. In this course, Julieanne filters out the noise and complexity for you so that you’ll end up empowered and able to quickly get the image results you want. You’ll get up to speed Photoshop’s core features and concepts that you can immediately put to use regardless of whether you’re a photographer, designer, or both!

Don’t miss this fast-paced, information-packed session in which Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, will showcase her favorite Photoshop tips, tricks, and techniques. She’ll uncover hidden gems for graphic design workflows, including working with layers and masking, compositing and retouching, type, vectors, and more, to help you become more efficient and reach your creative vision faster than ever before. 

Join Julieanne Kost, digital imaging evangelist at Adobe, to learn how to expedite your creative process using new and established features in Photoshop. Discover how Julieanne seamlessly merges disparate visual elements to create a single, surreal, composited scene. She’ll demonstrate key techniques to incorporate into your workflow that will enhance efficiency from initial concept to final scene.

In this video, Julieanne Kost walks through several options in Photoshop Beta that can help visualize layer bounds and preview layer edges, quickly select layers within groups, and transform the contents of a layer.

’m excited to announce that my Photoshop 2024 Essential Training course is now available on LinkedIn Learning!

Whether you’re pursuing a career in design or photography or simply want to elevate your image-making skills, this course has been hand-crafted to help you become more efficient and reach your creative vision in Photoshop faster than ever before.

In this video, Julieanne will walk you through three ways to quickly find, filter, and isolate layers using the Layers panel in Photoshop.

In this video Julieanne demonstrates four ways to select layers using the Layers panel, the Move tool’s Auto Select layers feature, the context sensitive menus, and keyboard shortcuts.

In this video Julieanne demonstrates ten of her favorite tips for working with layers in Photoshop including changing the background to a layer, renaming layers, creating new layers, duplicating layers, color coding layers, layer thumbnail options and more!

This is a bit of a mash-up of ten tool tips and shortcuts, but I find them to be very helpful and wished that I had discovered them when first learning Photoshop!

If you weren’t able to join me in-person at Adobe MAX, you can now watch the recorded version “Creating Compelling Composite Images in Photoshop” online! In this presentation, you’ll discover the tools and techniques you need to create a successful composite using layers and masking in Photoshop. During the one hour seminar, I walk through the creation of two images, demonstrating efficient ways to organize, construct, and combine multiple images in Photoshop as well as reveal my creative process and how I fabricate surreal images that enable a viewer to temporarily suspend their disbelief and enter a world inspired by thoughts and dreams.

Whether you’re looking to pursue a career in design or photography, or you want to learn the tools to enhance your own image making, this Photoshop course is for you! You’ll master the three most essential aspects of Photoshop: layers, selections, and masking, work with smart objects and smart filters, apply nondestructive adjustment layers, create shape layers, learn the pen tool, add type and layer effects, work with libraries and artboards, make animations and much, much, more!

intelligence and machine learning using Photoshop’s Photo Restoration and Colorize Neural filters. This video shows you how to add Smart Filters, take advantage of Smart Filter masks, and use Layer masks and Blend Modes for added flexibility while editing.

oday’s episode of The Complete Picture (How to Improve a Photograph by Adding a Complimentary Background), Julieanne demonstrates how to improve a photograph of a sand dollar by adding a background that compliments it’s texture, color, and structure.

If you weren’t able to watch Adobe MAX in real time, you can still view many of the sessions and labs on-demand. Below are the links to the two presentations that I made, but be sure to check out all of the other free training and inspirational content on the site!