Supreme Photoshop Training From Beginner To Expert

This Adobe Photoshop Beginner Course will teach a Beginner Photoshop user all essentials of Adobe Photoshop CC

Last updated 2022-01-10 | 4.5

- What Photoshop is & how to get into it!
- This course is perfect for beginners "Never used photoshop before"
- Customize the programs layout & feel comfortable

What you'll learn

What Photoshop is & how to get into it!

This course is perfect for beginners "Never used photoshop before"

Customize the programs layout & feel comfortable

Understand all photoshop basics & tools

Understand layers & it's panels

Understand masks & how to use them

Understand adjustment layers how to use them

Working with the pen tool

liquify & puppet warp tool

Understand setting color profiles

save PSD files & web files

Working with brush tool

the clone stamp tool & healing brush

Understand cutting objects out

fixing skin & manipulation

... and much

much more!

* Requirements

* You only need a photoshop "Any Version" Best to Have CS6
* CC2018
* CC2019
* Absolutely no experience is required. We start with the Basics!
* The course shows you exactly how to work with photoshop & become an expert!
* Exercise Files and Study Guides are provided! Download the videos for traveling!

Description

What Photoshop is & how to get into it!
This course is perfect for beginners "Never used photoshop before"
Customize the programs layout & feel comfortable
Understand all photoshop basics & tools
Understand layers & it's panels
Understand masks & how to use them
Understand adjustment layers how to use them
Working with the pen tool, liquify & puppet warp tool
Understand setting color profiles, save PSD files & web files
Working with brush tool, the clone stamp tool & healing brush
Understand cutting objects out, fixing skin & manipulation
... and much, much more!

Course content

6 sections • 78 lectures

Photoshop Interface & Workspace - For Beginners 14 lectures

Welcome Message Preview 01:10

Welcome to the photoshop master course

Photoshop Introduction - Understand The Photoshop Layout Preview 07:06

Understanding Layout

This is literally the absolute start of Photoshop. This lesson will focus on setting up Photoshop and your layout, including color themes. This is, of course, essential in easing your workflow. By navigating to the "Window" dropdown menu, you will find all the essential menus that you need to set up your layout. Among the most essentials, you'll find options, tools and workspace panels.

Application frame link to adobe:

https://helpx.adobe.com/creative-suite/kb/troubleshoot-application-frame-document-window.html

Photoshop Introduction - Modifying The Workspace Preview 10:19

Modifying Workspace / Full Screen Mode / Application Frame

This is where I'll focus on the workspace and the tool panel. I'lll discuss why we use the panels the way we do in order for you to understand our workspace. Here we discuss:

The History panel, which is like a big undo button.
The Character Box, for all the Text Tools.
The Info Box, for specific colour ranges.
Adjustments help to speedup your workflow.
Navigator is very helpful when you start out with Photoshop.
Then we have the layers palette, which is essentially one of the most important because you'll always use layers.
Channels is important for working with colours. Paths become very handy once you've become more comfortable with the pen tool

Photoshop Introduction - Menu Run Through Preview 12:03

Photoshop Menu Run Through

In this section we'll talk about the Photoshop menu. We'll focus on why we have the menu and what is available in the menu. The menu bar is located in the top of the screen. You adjust and set your keyboard shortcuts through the edit menu. Once you get to know the different menu options it will speed up your workflow This is just a brief overview of the menu and you'll become more familiar with the menu bar as the course progresses.

Photoshop CC
File
Edit
Image
Layer
Type
Select
Filter
3D
View
Window
Help

Photoshop Introduction - New Document / Getting Started Preview 09:12

Getting Started

We'll cover opening an existing and creating a new document in both Photoshop CS6 and CC. Creating a new document allows you to adjust your new canvas as well as save the presets. These include canvas size, resolution, colour mode, etc. You can also adjust your colour profile. To open an existing document you can simply drop it into photoshop or the icon at the bottom of your screen. Your image information is displayed at the top of each canvas.

Photoshop Introduction - Tools & Foreground Colors Preview 08:47

Tools & Foreground Colours

In this section I explain the most important tools to keep or use in your toolbar. Some of the most important tools I use in my work file is:

Move Tool
Brush Tool
Clone Tool
Healing Brush
Pen Tool
Quick Selection Tool
Foreground Colours

Photoshop Introduction - Different Working Techniques Preview 04:36

Different Working Techniques

Here I discuss the different working techniques that we use. Some are quicker than others, other is not as constructive while others are conducive to the workflow. This segment focuses on the importance of working with the layers and how you can access these layers from different areas to create the same effect.

Photoshop Introduction - Layers What & How Preview 15:43

What are layers & the different type of layers (Smart Object)

Layers is essentially the backbone of the image you're constructing. All play an important role, depending on what you want to do, to create different effects. Creating layers also offers the choice of different blending options to add different effects. You can also adjust the opacity. As the name would suggest, layers imply stacking of layers on top of each other. The top layer is what you'll see, depending if it's active or not. The different layers are:

Pixel Layer
Background Layer
Adjustment Layer
Type Layer
Shape Layer
Smart Objects
Layer Group
Layer Colour

Photoshop Introduction - Layer Styles Options Preview 07:19

Layer Styles and Modes

Blending modes allow you to set how the different layers react to each other. Stacking the layers on-top of each other will block out the layers underneath. Changing the blending mode will create a different effect with how the top and bottom layers react. The different blending options:

Normal
Dissolve
Darken
Multiply
Colour Burn
Linear Brun
Darker Colour
Lighten
Screen
Colour Dodge
Linear Dodge
Lighter Colour
Overlay
Soft Light
Hard Light
Vivid Light
Linear Light
Pin Light
Hard Mix
Difference
Exclusion
Subtract
Divide
Hue
Saturation
Colour
Luminosity

Photoshop Introduction - Blending Options Preview 05:25

Blending Options

Opening up your normal pixel layer gives you a variety of choices of layer styles. All the effects you choose will be visible under your layer. Here you will find:

Blending options to set your layer.
Different styles to enhance layer
Refinement tool

Photoshop Introduction - Layer Masks Preview 08:57

Layer Masks

Masks are simple pixel areas that are visible or hidden on certain layers. For example; if you've applied a layer with a certain effect and you either want to reduce the effect or only reveal a certain part of the layer, applying a mask makes this possible. There are many technique using tools to create effects before or after applying a mask. Two simple way to use masks:

Applying a mask keeps the effect visible and areas can be brushed out.
Inverting the mask hides the effect and areas can be brushed in.

Photoshop Introduction - Adjustment Layers Preview 10:47

Adjustment Layers

Adjustment layers are layers where you can apply different effects to your image. There are several different adjustment layers that adjust various aspects of your image, for example, colour, brightness, colour balance, etc. The different adjustment layers are:

Brightness/Contrast
Levels
Curves
Exposure
Vibrance
Hue/Saturation
Colour Balance
Black & White
Photo Filter
Channel Mixer
Colour Lookup
Invert
Posterize
Threshold
Selective Colour
Gradient Map

Photoshop Introduction - Smart Objects Preview 04:59

Smart Objects

A smart object allows you to make changes to your image without overwriting the original image data and giving you the opportunity to make non-destructive changes to the layer.

Photoshop Introduction - More Panels Preview 04:16

More Panels

Before I move over the next chapter I'll just cover some of the other panels that form part of my workflow. Here I'll look at:

History Panel
Adjustments panel
Navigator Panel
channels
Paths
Info

Important Photoshop Tools - For Beginners 23 lectures

Photoshop Tools - Move Tool Preview 03:49

Move tool

Used to move around your image in the canvas, either with mouse or with the keyboard arrows.

Photoshop Tools - Marquee Tool Preview 10:23

Marquee Too

The Marquee Tool is used to make selections in different shapes. A variety of effects can be applied to selections.

Photoshop Tools - Lasso Tool Preview 05:31

Lasso Tool

The Lasso Tool is also a selection tool. Selection is unrestricted, unlike the Marquee tool. The Magnetic Lasso Tool works a bit differently as it chooses between contrasts to make a selection.

Photoshop Tools - Quick Selection & Magic Wand Tool Preview 07:30

Quick Selection & Magic wand Tool

With the Quick Selection Tool you “paint” a selection using an adjustable round brush tip. As it expands it automatically find edges to stick to. The Magic Wand Tool Selects Tones.

Photoshop Tools - Clone Stamp and Healing Brush Tool Preview 11:36

Clone Stamp Tool and Healing Brush Tool

The Clone Stamp copies pixels, including tonalities and textures, from one area and pastes them somewhere else. The Healing Brush Tool only copies textures and bleeds them into a new area

Photoshop Tools - Crop Tool Preview 04:07

Crop Tool

The crop tool is used to cut away pixels or, simply put, reduce the size of your canvas.

Photoshop Tool - Eyedropper Tool Preview 03:48

Eyedropper tool, Colour Sample Tool and Red Eye Tool

These are very good tools for the beginner. The Eye Dropper Tool is good for sampling colour tones. The Colour Sample Tool is used to select different spots to get the exact tone. The Red Eye Tool is used for removing red eyes.

Photoshop Tools - Brush Tool Preview 09:20

Brush Tool and Pen Tool

Your brush Tool is probably the most important tool. Versatile and with a bunch of settings in the options menu, the brush is essential for almost every step of your retouching. The Pen tool works pretty much the same as the Brush Tool, it just comes with different presets.

Photoshop Tools - Eraser / Blur / Smudge Tool Preview 03:54

Eraser, Blur and Smudge tool

The Eraser Tool consists of three presets, namely Eraser, Magic Eraser and Background Eraser. It's essentially a brush that deletes or erases pixels on your image. The Blur Tool blurs out areas on the image while the Smudge Tool almost performs the same effect, but it also drags out the pixels.

Photoshop Tool - Gradient Tool Preview 05:24

Gradient Tool

The Gradient Tool is another important tool to have in your toolbox. It creates a gradual blend between multiple Colours.

Photoshop Tools - Type Tool Preview 04:18

Text Tool

An important tool to have in the toolbar. Although used more for Photoshop Design, it's an important Tool to know. As the name would suggest, it is the tool used to apply a text layer.

Photoshop Tools - Pen Tool Preview 10:36

Pen Tool

Probably the most complicated tool in Photoshop, but once you've mastered the Pen Tool you won't go back to other selection tools like the Lasso or Quick Selection Tool. The pen tool is a more precise selection tool

Photoshop Tools - Shape Tool Preview 04:14

Path Selection and Shape Tool

The Path Tool makes it easier to select different paths if you have multiple selections. The Shape Tool is used more designing, but it it quite helpful to know how to use it. You can use it to apply simple geometric shapes or custom shape designs to your image

Photoshop Tools - Zoom / Hand / Quick Selection Tool Preview 05:21

Final Tools

The Hand tool is used to move around the complete canvas. The Zoom tool allows you to zoom in and out of your image. The Colour Panel allows you to change your foreground and background colours. The Quick Selection Mask also allows you to make selections.

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts Preview 05:46

Keyboard Shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts play an important part in creating a conducive workflow. Though you might not need or learn them all, getting to know the shortcut keys for you most essential elements will help you in the long run.

Photoshop Keyboard Shortcuts & Commands Preview 26 pages

In this lesson, I've added the complete adobe photoshop handbook for keyboard shortcuts & commands. Go ahead and study the following pages for the beginning. You do not need to know every single page right now, just study the pages I've listed down below in the bulletpoints!

2 - Tool Shortcuts
3 - Tool Shortcuts
6 - Keys for Vanishing Point

I've also added the complete list to the download section, so feel free to download the PDF file, print it and hang it up on the wall. This might make your life a bit easier when learning!

Photoshop Menu Tools - Transform & Puppet Warp Tools Preview 09:03

Transform

Transform selections on your image. There are a variety of options with different effects.

Puppet Warp

This tool allows you to set anchor points and adjust them directly on your image. it allows you to warp the image to make changes.

Photoshop Menu Tools - Color Range Preview 04:50

Color Range

Colour Range helps to make selections based on the colour tones in an image.

Photoshop Menu Tools - Liquify Tool Preview 13:24

Liquify Tool

A tool that can be really helpful if you know what you're doing. It comes with its own set of options which allow you to manipulate an image to get certain effects

Photoshop Menu Tools - Filters & Plugins Preview 06:22

Filters / 3d Party Plugins

Filters are effects that you can apply to a selected layer. External or 3rd part plugins is software that adds more filters to your selection.

Quick Introduction Into Bridge - Good For Photographers Preview 04:51

Adobe Bridge

It's a digital asset management app developed by Adobe Systems. It's an awesome tool for making pre-adjustment before heading into Photoshop

Photoshop Workflow - Save PSD & Saving For Web Preview 09:49

Saving Your Work

In this lesson I'll show you how to save in different formats.

Photoshop Workflow - Setting Colour Profiles Preview 03:11

Colour Profiles

As a photographer it is very important to set up your Colour Profiles. In this lesson I'll explain the different colour presets, how to set it up and which one to use.

Retouching Class - Photoshop Portrait Retouching Course 16 lectures

Planning & Photography Settings Preview 03:13

Find the Photoshop (PSD Files) under the resources.

The first lesson will focus on the planning. Planning involves a variety of different elements that come together in the end to capture the perfect image in camera. Some of the elements we explore in this lesson is, of course, the setup, which includes the best light setup, the right color backdrop and the best pose for the model. The model on the other hand forms the other part of the planning. We take a lot of time to consider the perfect model for the Pro Tutorial.

Find the Photoshop (PSD Files) under the resources.

Light Setup & Diagram Preview 05:43

In-depth Light Setup & Diagram

This lesson is a very comprehensive look at the light setup we used for the shoot. When you shoot something like the Foxy Hipster it is important to get a perfect exposure all around. This doesn’t just involve a perfectly exposed model, but an evenly exposed backdrop as well. For this shoot, we used a four light setup with lights and modifiers directed at both the model and backdrops. We also used poly boards around the subject to make sure we capture that even exposure.