Photoshop 2025 Essential Training
12h 40mBeginner2024-11-13
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 pixels. Photoshop is a deep, complex, and at times, intimidating product. In Photoshop 2025 Essential Training, Julieanne Kost filters out the noise and complexity for you so that you’ll end up empowered and able to quickly get the image results you want. This course gets you up to speed with the Photoshop interface and introduces the core features and concepts youll use whether youre a photographer or designer.
Skills covered
Image EditingPhotoshopPhotographyAdobeEssential Training
Concepts
Introduction
- Welcome to Photoshop essential training
Opening Files
- Opening files in Photoshop
- Opening files from Adobe Bridge
- Opening files from Lightroom Classic
- Opening files from Lightroom
- Editing in Camera Raw or Lightroom versus Photoshop
Documents and Navigation
- A tour of the Photoshop interface
- Working with multiple documents
- Panning and zooming documents
Customizing the Photoshop Interface
- Arranging the panels you use most often
- Customizing the toolbar
- Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity
Digital Image Essentials
- Understanding file formats
- Mastering bit depth and color mode
- Choosing a color space
- Making sense of document size
- Using Image Size to change document dimensions
- Discover flexible editing using the History panel
- Saving and exporting documents
Adobe Camera Raw
- A tour of the Camera Raw interface
- Removing lens distortions and correcting perspective
- Cropping and expanding a photo with Generative Expand (beta)
- Working with profiles and presets
- Enhancing white balance, tone, and contrast
- Making adjustments to colors
- Removing distracting elements
- Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
- Using masking to retouch portraits
- B W conversions, color toning, and snapshots
- Creating and saving presets
- Removing noise and adding Lens Blur
- Saving and opening files into Photoshop
Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size
- Using the Crop tool
- Straightening a crooked image
- Crop and change the image size in one step
- Expanding the canvas size
Layers
- Exploring layer basics
- Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
- Organizing layers using layer groups
- Merging and flattening layers
- Quickly exporting layers and groups
Color and Brush Essentials
- Color basics
- Brush basics
- The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
- Creating custom brushes and symmetrical brush strokes
Working with Layer Masks and Clipping Masks
- Layer mask essentials
- Creating clipping masks with layers
Making Selections
- The Marquee and Lasso tools
- Making soft edged selections
- Using the Object Select and Selection Brush tools
- Making selections based on color
- Transforming selections and removing halos
- Selecting and replacing skies
Retouching and Removing Distracting Elements
- Retouching with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools
- Removing distracting elements with the Remove tool
- The magic of Generative Fill
- Using Generative Fill on large documents
- Seamlessly blend photos using Generative Fill
- Transform without distorting with Content-Aware Scale and Move
Generative AI
- Generate image essentials
- Generating elements and replacing backgrounds
- Generative Workspace (beta)
Adjustment Layer Essentials
- Introducing adjustment layers
- Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
- Changing vibrance, hue, saturation, and color balance
- Converting to B&W and color toning with Gradient Maps
- Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers
Blend Mode Essentials
- Blend mode basics
- Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
- Applying blend modes to adjustment layers
- Applying blend modes to multiple layers and groups
Smart Object Essentials
- Creating and editing Smart Objects
- Opening RAW images as Smart Objects
- Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
- Linked vs. embedded Smart Object
Essential Transformation
- Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
- Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw
- Warping images
- Using Liquify to reshape an image
- Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
- Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one
Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill Layers
- Using Fill Layers to create a hand painted look
- Using gradients to add color effects
- Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers
Essential Filters
- Filter essentials
- Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters
- Sharpening images
- Creative blurring effects
- AI-assisted (Neural) filters
- Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
- Applying Camera Raw as a filter
Shape Layers
- Using the Shape tools
- Modify, duplicate, and use custom shapes
- Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
- Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects
The Pen Tools
- The Curvature Pen tool
- Pen tool basics
- Drawing curves with the Pen tool
- Drawing complex paths
- Pen skills in practice
Essential Layer Styles
- Applying layer effects and styles
- Creative layer effects
Type Essentials
- Exploring headline (point) type
- Using leading, kerning, and tracking
- Working with paragraph (area) type
Working with Libraries
- Library panel essentials
- Capture patterns, colors, gradients, type attributes, and shapes from an image
- Sharing Libraries
- Working with Adobe Stock
Artboards
- Creating artboards
- Adding content to artboards
- Tips for working with artboards
- Saving and exporting artboards
Animating Images
- Creating animated GIFs
- Creating cinemagraphs
Sharing Images
- Sharing documents for review
- Saving cloud documents and collaborative editing
- Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
- Exporting a multiple images to a single document
Conclusion
- Next steps