Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

10h 14mBeginner2024-01-12

Authors

Julieanne Kost

Principal Evangelist at Adobe Systems

Course details

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 Kost filters out the complexity, so that you’ll be able to quickly create the images you want. Discover how to navigate and customize the tools that you’ll use most often and learn core digital image essentials including color space, bit depth and image size. Understand how to best crop, straighten, and adjust canvas size. Dive into layers, selections, and masking, and find out how to edit and retouch images. Explore blend mode, smart objects, generative fill, and shape layers. Study the pen tool, type essentials, libraries, and artboards and learn to animate, export, and share your images. This course introduces core tools to get you up to speed with the important features and concepts that all Photoshop users need to know.

Skills covered

Image EditingPhotoshopPhotographyEssential TrainingAdobe

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training

1. Opening Files

02 - Opening files in Photoshop
03 - Opening files from Adobe Bridge
04 - Opening files from Lightroom Classic
05 - Opening files from Lightroom
06 - Editing in Camera Raw and Lightroom versus Photoshop

2. Documents and Navigation

07 - A tour of the Photoshop interface
08 - Working with multiple documents
09 - Panning and zooming documents

3. Customizing the Photoshop Interface

10 - Arranging the panels you use most often
11 - Customizing the Toolbar
12 - Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity

4. Digital Image Essentials

13 - Understanding file formats
14 - Mastering bit depth and color mode
15 - Choosing a color space
16 - Making sense of document size
17 - Using image size to change document dimensions
18 - Discover flexible editing using the History panel
19 - Saving and exporting documents

5. Adobe Camera Raw

20 - A tour of the Camera Raw interface
21 - Removing distortions and cropping photos
22 - Working with profiles and presets
23 - Enhancing contrast, color, and tone
24 - Removing distracting elements
25 - Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
26 - Using masking to retouch portraits
27 - B W conversions, color toning, and snapshots
28 - Removing noise and adding Lens Blur
29 - Saving and opening files in Photoshop

6. Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size

30 - Using the Crop tool
31 - Straightening a crooked image
32 - Crop and change image size in one step
33 - Increasing canvas size

7. Layers

34 - Exploring layer basics
35 - Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
36 - Working with layer groups and the Frame tool
37 - Merging and flattening layers
38 - Quickly exporting layers and groups

8. Color and Brush Essentials

39 - Color basics
40 - Brush basics
41 - The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
42 - Creating custom brushes and symmetrical paint strokes

9. Working with Layer Masks

43 - Layer mask essentials
44 - Using clipping masks to hide and show layers

10. Making Selections

45 - Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
46 - Making soft-edged selections
47 - Using the Object Select tool
48 - Making selections based on color
49 - Transforming selections and removing halos
50 - Selecting and replacing skies

11. Local Pixel Editing and Retouching

51 - Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools
52 - Removing objects using Content-Aware and Generative Fill
53 - Creating elements using Generative Fill and Firefly
54 - Transform without distorting using Content Aware Scale and Move

12. Adjustment Layer Essentials

55 - Introducing adjustment layers
56 - Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
57 - Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue Saturation, and Color Balance
58 - Converting to B&W and color toning with Gradient Maps
59 - Applying Adjustment Layers to multiple layers

13. Blend Mode Essentials

60 - Blend Mode basics
61 - Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
62 - Applying blend modes to adjustment layers
63 - Applying blend modes to multiple layers and groups

14. Smart Object Essentials

64 - Creating and editing Smart Objects
65 - Opening raw images as Smart Objects
66 - Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
67 - Linked vs. embedded Smart Objects

15. Essential Transformation

68 - Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
69 - Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw
70 - Warping images
71 - Using Liquify to reshape an image
72 - Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
73 - Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers into one

16. Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill Layers

74 - Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
75 - Using gradients to add color effects
76 - Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers

17. Essential Filters

77 - Filter essentials
78 - Applying filters non-destructively with Smart Filters
79 - Sharpening images
80 - Creative blurring effects
81 - AI-assisted (Neural) Filters
82 - Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
83 - Applying Camera Raw as a filter

18. Shape Layers

84 - Using the Shape tools
85 - Modify, duplicate, and use custom shapes
86 - Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
87 - Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects

19. The Pen Tools

88 - The Curvature Pen tool
89 - Pen tool basics
90 - Drawing curves with the Pen tool
91 - Drawing complex paths
92 - Pen skills in practice

20. Essential Layer Styles

93 - Applying layer effects and styles
94 - Creative layer effects

21. Type Essentials

95 - Exploring headline (point) type
96 - Using leading, kerning, and tracking
97 - Working with paragraph (area) type

22. Working with Libraries

98 - Library panel essentials
99 - Capture patterns, colors, gradients, type attributes, and shapes from an image
100 - Sharing Libraries
101 - Working with Adobe Stock

23. Artboards

102 - Creating Artboards
103 - Adding content to Artboards
104 - Tips for working with Artboards
105 - Saving and exporting Artboards

24. Animating Images

106 - Creating animated GIFs
107 - Creating cinemagraphs

25. Sharing Images

108 - Sharing documents for review
109 - Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
110 - Exporting multiple images to a single document

Conclusion

111 - Next steps