Graphic Design Essentials with Adobe Photoshop

Explore how Photoshop layers stack like transparent papers, featuring the thin layer, image layer, adjustment layer, shape layer, and text layer, with multiply blending and locking layers to prevent edits.

create 2500 by 2500 px, 72 dpi Photoshop document; import image, resize with shift to preserve proportions, create a square with rectangle tool, apply brightness/contrast and multiply blend mode, save.

Save your Photoshop project to prevent data loss by saving on your computer or to your Adobe account, naming the file, and using ctrl+s as you work.

Export your Photoshop project to PNG or JPG for posting on Instagram, using export settings to balance quality and file size. PNG preserves quality, JPEG saves space.

Learn to add and style text in Photoshop by opening an image, creating and resizing text, selecting fonts, adjusting tracking, color, and alignment using panels and guidelines.

Edit your text in Photoshop by adjusting font size and typeface, applying paragraph settings like justified alignment, duplicating text, and using transform and zoom to perfect layouts.

Explore non-destructive photo editing with adjustment layers, using hue and saturation and color balance to craft a cyberpunk city edit with pink, magenta, and blue tones against city lights.

Turn images into black and white with the black and white adjustment layer, then fine-tune red and greens sliders to control tones, creating an album-cover style with added text.

Master the quick selection tool in Photoshop to prepare subjects for masking, duplicate layers for safety, save and load selections, and adjust backgrounds with helpful brush and zoom tips.

Show how a layer mask removes backgrounds to create a transparent backdrop around a subject. Add a layer below and use paint bucket and color picker for non-destructive edits.

Apply masking and layer masks to isolate the subject, convert the background to black and white, and build a framed layout with a colored rectangle and a credit text.