Adobe Photoshop CC MegaCourse: Basic to Advanced FEB 2025

Navigate the basic tools and interface of Adobe Photoshop 2022, covering file management, preferences, units and rulers, color adjustments, layers, filters, and patterns.

Explore Photoshop 2022 selection tools—rectangular marquee, lasso, and magic wand—and master add, subtract, and intersect selections, feathering, and fixed ratio and fixed size options, with layer duplication via Ctrl+J.

Explore and master Photoshop selection tools, including marquee, lasso variants (polygonal, magnetic, standard), the magic wand, object and quick selection, and add/subtract or inverse techniques.

Master the move tool to import layers, place images using x and y center coordinates, rotate, resize with the transform bounding box, and duplicate via alt-drag.

Master the crop tool in Photoshop by setting width and height, choosing a 300 dpi resolution, and using overlays like golden ratio or diagonal grid with crop shield options.

Learn how the healing brush tool works in Photoshop, including sampling from the image, brush size, and alignment. Practice on a rasterized smart object for precise healing.

Use the Photoshop text tool to format type, choose fonts and sizes, colors, and alignment. Explore character and paragraph settings, bold and italic styles, leading, tracking, warp, and 3D text.

Explore the vertex warp and text orientation in Photoshop, adjusting horizontal and vertical distortion with positive and negative values. Switch between horizontal and vertical type and commit changes.

Master the horizontal type mask tool to create text fields, choose fonts, sizes, and styles, and apply a layer mask to reveal the image through text.

Learn to manage layers in Photoshop, including selecting the active layer, applying blending modes, and adjusting opacity, fill, and lock options such as transparency and position.

Learn how to use Photoshop blend modes from the layers panel, applying options like normal, darken, multiply, screen, overlay, soft light, and more to affect the layer below.

Explore how layer styles in Photoshop work, including drop shadow, inner shadow, stroke, and outer glow. Adjust blend mode, opacity, color, angle, distance, size, spread, and patterns for precise effects.

Explore layer style in Photoshop, including outer glow and inner glow with color and color overlay, blend mode, opacity, distance, and size, plus bevel and emboss and contour effects.

explore photoshop layer style 3 focusing on bevel and emboss, with adjustable size, angle, altitude, smoothness, gloss contour, highlight and shadow blend modes, gradient and pattern overlays, and opacity controls.

Master the quick mask workflow in Photoshop to paint and refine layer masks, rasterize smart objects, and apply pattern overlays to reveal a grass effect.

Mask with the selection tool to create a hole using the elliptical marquee, inverse the selection, and apply a layer mask; transform and align second layer and adjust feather edges.

Master edge refinement by using the dust and scratches filter in photoshop to smooth selections, including creating and managing alpha channels, and applying a small radius with zero threshold.

Master select and mask in Photoshop to refine edges and hair with edge detection, smart radius, feather, and contrast, using quick selection, invert, and subject isolation.

Master levels and curves in Photoshop to adjust shadows, midtones, highlights, and brightness. Add dots on curves to modify colors across RGB channels using control L and control M.

Adjust shadows, highlights, and exposure using image adjustments from the image menu, and explore shadow radius, gamma correction, offset, color value, and lightness and darkness to control brightness and contrast.

Explore auto color corrections and black and white adjustments in Photoshop, including automatic color balance, manual color values via sliders, and monotonous color mode with color toning and saturation options.

Learn to apply color balance in Photoshop CC using the image adjustment dialog with preview, adjusting highlights, midtones, and shadows to fine-tune cyan, red, magenta, green, blue, and yellow.

Use match color in Photoshop to harmonize two photos by matching color, luminance, saturation, and atmosphere, converting smart objects to bitmap when needed.

Use the channel mixer to adjust red, green, and blue color intensities, set the output channel and constant, preview changes, and apply a monochrome option for black-and-white results.

Apply the photo filter in Photoshop to add color vibes through image adjustment. Rasterize the layer, set density, preserve luminosity, and preview warming or cooling filters before finalizing.

Learn to use the adjustment layer in Photoshop to apply vibrance, saturation, brightness, and contrast to the layer below, preview changes, reset, and delete as needed.

Learn how to create a glitch effect in Photoshop by manipulating red, green, and blue channels, copying channels, and nudging them with the move tool to achieve colored misalignment.

Learn to use the dodge and burn tools in Photoshop, including brush size via keyboard brackets, exposure, and ranges (midtones, shadows, highlights), plus rasterizing a smart object.

learn to save and load selections in photoshop, using the lasso tool and select save, then load via alpha channel to move or create a layer with ctrl j.

Explore Photoshop filter gallery artistic effects, focusing on colored pencil and cutout styles, adjusting stroke length, stroke pressure, and paper brightness to transform photos into stylized art.

Explore dry brush and film grain effects in the filter gallery, blending oil painting and watercolor styles; adjust brush size, detail, texture, and grain intensity to control brightness and edges.

Apply fresco and neon glow in Photoshop's Filter Gallery to turn photos into Rococo-style paintings, adjust texture and brush size, and control light with neon glow color and brightness.

Explore Photoshop's filter gallery to simulate painting with paint drops and a palette knife, adjusting brush size, sharpness, stroke size, and softness to create textured, painterly effects.

Learn to use Photoshop filters to apply artistic effects, including plastic wrap with highlight, detail, smoothness, and depth of roughness, and poster edges with posterization for cartoon-like images.

Explore rough pastels and smudge stick filters in Photoshop 2022, adjust stroke length and stroke detail, apply textures like canvas or burlap, and control depth, light direction, and highlight areas.

Master the sponge and underpainting filters in Photoshop 2022, adjusting brush size, smoothness, texture coverage, relief, and light to transform a photo into a painterly artwork.

Explore watercolor effects in Photoshop CC by adjusting brush detail and shadow. Tweak water paper, stained glass, mosaic tiles, and texturizer for glass, canvas, or brick textures.

Explore oil paint and wind effects in Photoshop using the filter stylize menu, adjusting stylization, cleanliness, bristle detail, scale, angle, and light to craft a textured oil painting look.

Explore lighting effects in render, including lens flare and solarize, adjust brightness and gloss, and apply spotlight-style illumination with selectable point or infinite light types.

Apply color halftone to smart object and raster layers via pixelate filter, adjust color channels and dot directions to resemble newspaper printing, and try vivid light or darken blending modes.

Explore pixel effects in pixelate, crystallize, mosaic, fragment, mezzotint, and pointillize to blur, stylize, and censor images, with a preview option and history support.

Apply pinch and ripple distortions in Photoshop on a layer, adjusting the amount for concave or bloated centers, then wrap the image on a 3D sphere or cylinder.

Explore distortion effects in Photoshop's filter distort menu, including wrap around and repeat edge pixels, twirl, and wave variations with wavelength, amplitude, type, and randomize options.

Explore blur effects in Photoshop, including Gaussian Blur and Motion Blur, and adjust radius, direction, distance, brightness, and noise. Use the history panel to undo steps and preview changes.

Explore shape blur and smart blur tools in Photoshop's filter blur menu, adjusting radius, threshold, and color intensity to simulate depth and preview how different subjects see the image.

Explore Photoshop cc 2022 blur techniques, using motion blur with direction arrows and editing blur shapes, then apply tilt shift for selective linear focus.

Explore different brush presets, adjust size with pen pressure on a Wacom tablet, control opacity and flow, rotate the brush direction, and explore blend modes.

Demonstrate using the Photoshop smudge tool, adjust brush size and type (soft edge), and apply strength to create wet-paint effects while exploring hue, saturation, and luminosity.

Create a simple animation in Photoshop with the video timeline and frame animation, drawing a ball, duplicating layers, and setting 0.2 seconds per frame to loop forever.

Master frame-by-frame animation in Adobe Photoshop CC by tracing frames, using onion skin, and managing layers to build and preview a cycling animation.

Export this animation to a gif for the web by using save for web, selecting gif as the format, and adjusting the background color and preview options.

Master the Photoshop shape tool to create and style shapes with fill, borders, rounded corners, and precise dimensions, then use pathfinder and properties to refine designs.

Learn to create and edit a path in Photoshop using the pen tool, add and adjust anchor points, convert points for arcs, and define border and stroke options.

Master Photoshop 2022 path features, adjusting feather, density, and stroke. Build and modify work paths, convert live shapes, and create new paths with the path tools.