Adobe Photoshop for Photo Editing and Image Retouching

Explore three lasso tools in Photoshop—basic, polygonal, and magnetic—learning when to use each for precise selections, with tips on zooming and refining edges.

Use the quick selection tool in Photoshop to rapidly isolate a subject by painting with a brush and adjusting brush size and hardness.

Refine edge in Photoshop helps perfect object selections by refining boundaries with select mask using size, hardness, and spacing. Paint around complex boundaries, like hair, for natural isolation on backgrounds.

Master the spot healing tool in Photoshop to remove unwanted elements by sampling surrounding pixels, zoom in, and reimagine photos with adjustable brush size and hardness.

Master the spot healing brush in Photoshop to remove barbed wire from a lakeside landscape, balancing brush size and sampling from nearby pixels to preserve sky and mountains.

Master the magic wand tool to make quick selections, hold down the shift key to add more areas, and replace the sky using a new layer for natural-looking composites.

Enhance a shadowed tiger photo in Photoshop by adjusting exposure, brightness, gamma correction, and contrast with adjustment layers, and apply selective exposure using selections to keep the background dark.

Learn to use hue/saturation in Photoshop to selectively adjust blue and other color channels with adjustment layers, sample colors with the eyedropper, and preserve edits by saving layered Photoshop files.

Create a thermal camera effect in Photoshop by masking a subject, applying a gradient map with rainbow colors, and adjusting the background to grayscale for a realistic heat map look.

Create a selective color effect in Photoshop by masking the subject, turning the background to grayscale, and adjusting colors like green, yellow, and red to emphasize the central guava.

Use the channel mixer in Photoshop to shift a monsoon scene toward autumn by adjusting greens to yellow and using hue and saturation with adjustment layers.

Create striking two-color duotone images in Photoshop by using a gradient map on an adjustment layer, adjusting colors, values, and shadows to convey mood.

Learn to create a true spherical panorama in Photoshop using history panorama and new panorama layers, export shots, and achieve a 360-degree view.

Learn to create a custom brush in Photoshop by extracting a flame from an image, defining a brush preset, and painting with adjustable size and color.

Learn how to use the history brush tool in Photoshop to selectively reveal edits via the history panel, blend black and white layers, and create photo effects for greeting cards.

Create and apply Photoshop actions to automate repetitive edits across many photos, recording steps, assigning shortcuts, and refining color and tonal adjustments such as black and white.