The Complete Photoshop for Drawing and Painting Course

Explore the general tools and top menus in digital art software and learn how to navigate Photoshop’s edit, image, layers, type, select, view, window, and help options.

Explore marquee selections, crop, eyedropper, brush and pencil tools, eraser, gradients, and color palettes in Photoshop, with tips on brush dynamics and precise selections.

Explore layers palette, color palette, swatches, and navigator in photoshop to manage layers, colors, and document navigation efficiently.

Explore canvas size and resolution settings in new documents, choosing pixel units, paper presets like international paper, and optimizing for 2000 px at 300 ppi for clear prints.

Learn why starting with a transparent top layer prevents painting on a flat background and how a 50 percent gray backing provides balanced lighting for drawing and painting in Photoshop.

Master canvas navigation, zooming, panning, rotation with shift constraints, and flipping via flip canvas horizontally in Photoshop to check perspective and composition using shortcuts.

Explore how layers of transparency stack to give flexible control in digital art, including renaming, toggling visibility, grouping, duplicating, and organizing layers and folders.

Explore how layer opacity controls transparency and how layer modes define how a layer's pixels interact with the image, including saturation and color overlays.

Explore how layer modes multiply, screen, and overlay affect pixels, darkening, lightening, and color saturation; learn to adjust opacity for subtle contrast and color shifts in digital painting.

Master how locking transparent pixels confines painting to filled areas, preventing spillover and making edits precise, with quick thumbnail selection to isolate transparent regions.

Explore Photoshop's brush tool with chalk, spatter, and soft or hard brushes. Each brush has its own properties and settings; learn to use the brush selection window and create presets.

Explore brush hardness and size in Photoshop, learning how edge sharpness and brush sizing affect painting; resize with keyboard shortcuts or the brush panel, noting some presets lack these options.

Explore essential brush settings in Photoshop for drawing and painting, including opacity, flow, spacing, brush shape dynamics, pressure sensitivity, and transfer to create smooth, tapered strokes.

Master digital blending by using the color picker and pressure-sensitive brushes to blend two blues into a smooth gradient, adjusting opacity with pen pressure for natural color merging.

Explore the eraser tool in Photoshop, using system brushes for dynamic erasing with opacity and flow. Erasing affects only the active layer, preserving the background and brush settings including pressure.

Explore how the color picker uses hue, value, and saturation. Adjust the hue slider, and the main box controls value and saturation for bright or pale blues.

Master the core selection tools in Photoshop, including rectangular and elliptical marquees, freehand and polygonal lasso, and point-to-point selections to isolate, copy, and move elements with pixel-level adjustments.

Master Photoshop transformation tools to manipulate selections with rotate, scale, skew, and perspective. Constrain actions with shift, flip canvases, and duplicate elements via the Transform menu.

Discover how warp transforms selections in Photoshop and Clip Studio Paint, using grid handles to bend and adjust forms fluidly. Learn to apply warp for more dynamic, efficient digital art.

Review core digital painting concepts in Photoshop, including tools, layers, layer modes like multiply and overlay, brushes and brush settings, color picker, and canvas setup.

Explore the features of digital art software shared across applications, and continue your learning with the fundamentals course on drawing and painting essentials.