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[SOUND] Hello there, I'm Shon Dempsey,
a freelance graphic designer with over

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13 years of professional experience, and
quite a few more just playing around.

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Designer photography is more
accessible than it ever has been.

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Hardware is better,
software is less expensive, and

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decent cameras are in our pockets.

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Naturally more people are interested
in either making a career in design, or

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wanna just elevate their photos.

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Making your creations look great on
devices and in print can be overwhelming.

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If you're like I used to be,
taking a photo and just hoping for

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the best when it prints, it can
certainly lead to some frustration or

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concessions in your standards.

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I'm gonna spend some time
demystifying displays,

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resolution, [SOUND] graphic types,
color and more [SOUND].

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Setting up your documents from the very
beginning with these things in mind is so

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critical for the success of your project.

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Lucky for us, quite a few apps these days
take some of the guesswork out of it for

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us with templates.

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We'll be able to make any
adjustments to those templates and

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understand why we're making them.

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I want you to leave this course with
the foundation of those ideals,

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so your next creation, or
the next time you ask for a creation,

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you've got some working knowledge of
what that will entail to get started.

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I also wanted to provide an introduction
to one of the most prolific graphics

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programs, Adobe's Photoshop.

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We'll do a flyover tour of
their user interface, and

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learn the structure of
a Photoshop document.

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Finally, we'll combine some photo color
correction tools with a few other

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elements, to lay out advertising graphics
formatted for web, a mobile app, and

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a Twitter post.