Mobile Design
Master PicsArt for Mobile Design
What you'll learn
- Understand the PicsArt app interface and tools
- Set the design size and add images
- Crop and combine images
- Use the scatter and motion tool and the clone tool
- Adjust image colors
- Add and edit text
- Add filters and visual effects
- Retouch the face and remove blemishes
About this course
This course teaches you how to design using your mobile phone with the PicsArt app, one of the best-known apps for editing and designing photos on a phone and tablet. You start with a content overview and an introduction to the field of photo design, then a walkthrough of the app interface and its tools in two parts. After that you learn to set the design size and add images, crop and combine images, and use the scatter and motion tool and the clone tool. Then you move to adjusting colors, adding and editing text, adding filters and visual effects, retouching the face and removing blemishes, and you finish with important practical tips. The course suits anyone who wants to design professional-looking images from their phone without a computer, whether for personal use, social media pages or small projects. No previous design experience is needed, because every tool is explained from scratch with hands-on practice. By the end, you will be able to edit, crop and color photos, add text and effects, and produce a complete design with the PicsArt app on your mobile.
Expected outcomes
- Master the use of PicsArt to create innovative designs.
- Enhance photo editing skills and add creative touches.
- Create professional designs that fit personal or professional needs.
- Ability to improve and uniquely edit photo quality.
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Course content
1Designing with PicsArt
15 lectures
- Content PresentationOutlines the course on designing with PicsArt on mobile: the interface and tools, cropping and combining images, color correction, adding text and filters, retouching faces, and graphic design basics.1:48
- Introduction to Image Design FieldIntroduces image design and graphic design and two reasons to learn it, earning money and marketing your own project, and why PicsArt is used, since software is just a tool for applying design principles.14:06
- Explanation of the Interface and Tools (Part 1)Gets to know the PicsArt interface, menus and core tools: home screen, frames, cropping, background removal, selection and the fit tool, as an introduction rather than full hands-on work.16:05
- Explanation of the Interface and Tools (Part 2)Continues the tour of PicsArt tools: the brush, its types, size and opacity, undoing steps, the border tool, effects like glow and shadow, and a recap of the interface.13:10
- Determining Design Size and Adding ImagesExplains design dimensions in pixels in Pixart, how images are added as layers in order, and how to add a background image and enlarge it to fill the design.16:57
- Cutting and Assembling ImagesExplains adding a personal photo in Pixart, cutting it out from its background with the brush and eraser, then blending it with the background and lowering the flag image's opacity.19:35
- Using the Blur and Motion ToolExplains the Scatter and Motion tools in Pixart, including selecting the target area and controlling brush size and piece spacing to create scatter and motion effects.17:04
- Using the Clone ToolExplains the Clone tool in Pixart for copying part of an image to another spot, how to prepare the surrounding area with the brush first for a consistent result, and how it differs from the Motion tool.14:55
- Color Adjustment (Part 1)Explains why color correction is the last step in a design, and covers the brightness, contrast and clarity settings and how each affects the image.10:59
- Color Adjustment (Part 2)Explains the Saturation and Shadows settings in color adjustment, how to make one element stand out from the background, and how to compare the image before and after editing.11:58
- Adding Texts and Editing Them (Part 1)Explains adding text in Pixart, choosing the font and color, then adjusting brightness, saturation and the text background, and controlling spacing between words and between lines.12:25
- Adding Texts and Editing Them (Part 2)Continues covering text properties in Pixart: opacity, blend modes such as Screen, adding and adjusting shadows, and text curvature, stressing the choice of a suitable font and color.13:54
- Adding Filters and Visual EffectsExplains adding ready-made filters and effects to an image in Pixart, such as saturation, blur and motion, and that effects are applied as the final step after the design is complete.13:20
- Facial Modification and Flaw RemovalExplains the Retouch tool in Pixart for adjusting facial features such as eyes, nose and lips, removing blemishes, and changing skin tone in portrait photos.19:17
- Very Important Practical TipsTips for becoming professional in graphic design: keep learning and try the program's tools yourself, use attractive high-quality images, and browse others' designs on Pinterest and Behance before starting any design.11:23
Instructor
Eng. Mustafa Abul-Fadl
