Beginner to Expert: Photoshop on the iPad

Explore the iPad home screen in Photoshop, discover live streams, manage cloud files, shared items, and deleted items, and learn to create, open, import, and adjust interface settings.

Explore Photoshop on the iPad interface by importing an image, using two-finger gestures to zoom, twist, and move, and navigating tools, layers, and quick actions.

Open the heads up display that appears with tool use, revealing options like selecting and content aware fill; click more to access additional settings.

Explore the touch shortcuts, gestures, and keyboard tips in the touch shortcuts help menu, including view touch shortcuts, two-finger undo, and V for the move tool.

Target a layer and explore filters and adjustments, applying gaussian blur to create realism, then use two-finger tap to undo changes.

Learn to link layers and group them in Photoshop on the iPad, using folders for neat organization so multiple layers move together, and unlink when needed.

Explore how to retouch photos on the iPad by adjusting lightness and darkness, correcting color, changing hues, and converting to black and white.

Explore levels in Photoshop on iPad by using an adjustment layer and histogram to control lightness, darkness, and exposure, dragging highlights and adjusting output levels.

Master midtone control in Photoshop on the iPad by using curves on an adjustment layer to adjust middle tones, create an s-curve for contrast, and refine light and dark areas.

Master hue and saturation in Photoshop on iPad by adjusting hue, saturation, and lightness. Explore colorized options and use opacity and blending to control the layer's effect.

Learn to convert images to black and white on the iPad using adjustment layers, selectively brightening or darkening colors to make shapes pop and tell a story.

Learn to use the magic wand tool to select similar color pixels by adjusting tolerance, and compare contiguous on versus off to capture touching or non-touching areas.

Master fast subject selection in Photoshop on the iPad by using the select subject action, compare it with object selection, and refine the selection for precise results.

Learn to remove the background with a single action that automatically detects the subject, creates a mask, and shows it in layers for tweaking with different pictures.

Select the subject, create a mask, refine edges with edge detection and smart radius, then add a background layer using non-destructive masking.

apply masks to adjustment layers in Photoshop on iPad, using selection tools and feathered edges to refine areas like a dog's jersey or eye, then adjust hue and saturation.

Experiment with levels and hue/saturation to improve the image, darken the background, and plan white text for better contrast.

Select with the lasso tool, add or subtract selections, refine edges with smoothing and feather, and apply color balance via an adjustment layer to recolor the spoon.

Explore how brushes in Photoshop empower photographers to retouch images and support illustrators alike, and learn practical techniques to use brushes effectively.

Learn to recolor parts of an image in Photoshop on the iPad by painting with color mode to change hue without altering lightness, adjusting opacity, and using blending modes.

Master dodge and burn on the iPad to selectively lighten and darken areas, adjust exposure and mid tones, and use the sponge to saturate color, bringing focus to the fruit.

Explore how the final result uses multiple layers, with each color on its own layer and sometimes two layers, creating a hand-colored look on old and modern photos.

Learn to remove backgrounds using blend modes darken and multiply on the iPad, combine with masks, and adjust edges to reveal textures behind a logo or image.

Apply select subject and refine edges to isolate subjects on iPad, then use decontaminate colors to prevent background color bleed around edges and whiskers, improving masks.