Each Thursday four industry experts guide you through an interactive experience spanning various artistic realms, from branding to photo compositing and poster design.

9am PST – 10 Illustrator Tips to Use with Adobe Express: Rethink your Illustrator workflows by using these tips and tricks to bring animation, video, and effects to your creations in Adobe Express.

10am PST – Creating Patreon Rewards: Create a unique illustration to turn into a physical sticker reward for your Patreon members. Then, use Adobe Express to create promotional images for social media.

11am PST – Adding Texture to a Portrait: Join Lisa Carney to learn how to use Adobe Lightroom, Photoshop, and Firefly together to add blur, texture, and style to your portraits.

12pm PST – 25 Photoshop Tips: Tune in with Jesús Ramirez from The Photoshop Training Channel to learn 25 must-know tips in Adobe Photoshop.

Andrew Hochradel is a freelance brand identity designer based in Southern California: www.behance.net/hochdotco

Anna Daviscourt is a children’s book author and illustrator based in Sacramento, CA: www.behance.net/annadaviscourt

Lisa Carney is a photographer and photo retoucher based in LA: www.lisacarney.com/

Jesús Ramirez is a San Francisco Bay Area Graphic Designer and the founder of the Photoshop Training Channel on YouTube: www.behance.net/JRfromPTC

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00:00 Start
2:15 Arc tool
5:15 Scaling anchor points
11:30 ZigZag lines
18:05 Touch type tool
38:20 Importing an Illustrator file to Adobe Express
45:25 Adding video effects
1:01:14 Today’s project
1:03:35 Anna’s stickers
1:09:50 Painting a dragon sticker
1:11:25 Finding new brushes
1:21:21 Why paint in Photoshop?
1:25:13 Color palette creation
1:52:25 Adding animation
1:53:58 Adding a background color
2:02:37 Lisa’s work
2:05:22 Lightroom on mobile devices w/ new features
2:10:26 Editing in Lightroom mobile - Lens blur
2:16:05 Masking w/ gradient maps
2:19:20 Adding texture through Lightroom
2:30:38 Firefly for textures
2:36:15 Blend if options
2:42:21 Remove Tool in PS
2:46:22 Generative Fill prompts to create background plates
2:54:15 Wrap up
3:00:26 Jesus’ intro
3:04:02 Changing canvas/UI in PS
3:07:14 Coffee or Toast
3:08:54 Clone brush tips - clone source options
3:17:01 Spot Healing brush tips & options
3:20:31 Fade command tip
3:28:17 PS history logs
3:31:10 Type Tool Tips
3:33:20 Selection tips
3:41:10 Minimum filter for masking
3:45:38 Reference point transform tips
3:48:23 Two windows w/ same doc
3:50:27 Liquify tips
3:53:10 Escape key tip
3:54:49 Spring loaded keyboard shortcut keys