Pen Tool

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!

’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 demonstrates ten essential shortcuts to quickly change Photoshop’s brush size and opacity, select colors, reset brush options, paint straight lines, use precise cursors, toggle between painting and erasing while maintaining the same brush settings, increase the smoothness of a brush stroke, use Pulled String mode, and stroke a path to simulate pressure sensitivity.

In this video you’ll discover how easy it is to convert a type layer into a shape layer and use the Direct Selection tool to customize the shape in Photoshop.

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!

this video, Julieanne demonstrates how she uses the Pen tool, Layer Masks, Blend Modes, Smart Objects, and a Gradient Map Adjustment Layer in order to create a double exposure effect in Photoshop.

In this video (Creating a Composite in Photoshop Using the Pen Tool, Shape Layers, and Layer Masks), Julieanne demonstrates how she uses the Pen tool, Shape Layers, and Layer Masks in order to create a composite portrait in Photoshop.

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2022 Essential Training course is now available on LinkedIn Learning! With 100+ videos in the course, you’ll find exactly the information that you need to master all of Photoshop’s essential tools.

Here are 15 of my favorite shortcuts that make working with Paths and the Pen Tool easier in Photoshop.

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Photography course is now available on LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com! Whether you’re a professional photographer or someone who just wants to improve your image-making skills, this course can help you take your images to the next level and get the results that you want using Photoshop 2021.

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2021 Essential Training: Basics course is now available on LinkedIn Learning and Lynda.com. This course was created specifically to help designers master the most commonly used tools and techniques in Photoshop with the goal of removing technical barriers in order to start creating as soon as possible.

Discover ten shortcuts for working with Vector Masks in Photoshop.

I’m excited to announce that my new Photoshop 2020 Essential Training: Design course is now available on LinkedIn Learning and  Lynda.com. Whether you’re an experienced creative pro or just starting on your creative journey, learning how to use Photoshop is the best investment you can make in your work!

In this course, Julieanne Kost demonstrates how to efficiently perform common design tasks, including editing images, drawing shapes, and working with type and fonts.