Non-Scary Beginner-Intermediate Adobe Photoshop inc New AI

Explore the Photoshop interface, learn where things are, and master basics like taking photos, cropping, straightening, saving, exporting as JPEGs, and saving to the cloud.

Open a photo and learn to pan, zoom, and rotate using the hand, zoom, and rotate view tools, with shortcuts like spacebar, h, r, and z.

learn how to straighten photos in Photoshop using the straighten tool, draw a horizon line (horizontal or vertical), and apply content-aware fill to remove cropped pixels.

Learn how to fix problem pictures by adjusting lightness and darkness, apply color correction, and turn images into black and white, including color overlays for creative tint.

Learn to enhance photos by adjusting brightness, contrast, and shadow highlights to reveal detail and mood, using adjustment layers and live preview for precise edits.

Tint black and white images using adjustments and the color picker to adjust saturation and apply a color, including brand colors via RGB, CMYK, or hex, then fine-tune with levels.

Open a modern image, convert it to black and white, apply a yellow tint, then build the old photo look with layers, a texture layer, and a cutout effect.

Adjust the background with image adjustments, brightness and contrast, and adjustment layers; blend with multiply or color burn, then save, crop to 1920×1080, and export as JPEG, adding edge textures.

Explore Photoshop's AI features and Neural Filters for editing faces, colorizing old photos, and retouching. Learn how these automatic tools offer a strong starting point to create incredible images.

Apply neural filters, especially the photo restore tool, to sharpen an old black-and-white photo and remove folds, outputting to a new layer to keep the original intact.

Apply Photoshop's Smart Portrait neural filters to adjust expressions, age, hair thickness, eye direction, and lighting; learn mask feathering and placement for seamless portrait edits.

Explore depth blur in Photoshop's neural filters to isolate subjects by adjusting focal distance and blur strength, with subtle haze, temperature, and grain for cohesive results.

Learn to create a child-friendly poster using paper cutout AI image generation in Photoshop, choose an A3 print-ready RGB workspace, and save as PSD or JPEG.

Learn to cut out a subject, refine the hair for accurate selection, place the image on a new background, and color-match to create a seamless composite.

Master selections with rectangular and elliptical marquees, marching ants, and inverse options to isolate areas for edits, masking, or moving, and use add, subtract, and transform tools.

Learn key shortcuts for selection tools in Photoshop, including using shift to create perfect squares or circles and alt/option for subtracting or intersecting selections, speeding up your workflow.

Master the freehand and magnetic lasso tools to quickly select complex areas, refine selections with add, subtract, and backspace, and adjust color balance to enhance the glasses.

Master auto and manual selection in Photoshop with the object selection tool, select subject, lasso and rectangle modes, and refine with add, subtract, and magnetic lasso.

Master quick selection and the magic wand tools to brighten areas, darken the sky, adjust vibrance and brightness/contrast, and refine selections with add/subtract and contiguous options, using the history panel.

Desaturate the suit to gray and recolor the folder blue using object/quick selection and lasso tools, then apply brightness/contrast and tint in black and white adjustments.

Learn to create a realistic shadow by duplicating the layer, transforming it with distort, filling with black, applying gaussian blur, and adjusting opacity while placing the shadow beneath the subject.

Duplicate the layer, flip it upside down, and place it beneath for a reflection. Use transform distort to align features and set opacity to about 10–12% for a subtle reflection.

Brushes in Photoshop help beginners make selections, paint extra bits, color areas, and retouch with the healing brush.

Master hard and soft round brushes in Photoshop, adjusting hardness, size, and opacity to retouch images and color areas, using the color picker and foreground color, with masking.

Master brush size, hardness, and softness with quick Photoshop shortcuts for on-the-fly adjustments. Use square brackets to resize, hold shift for hardness, and mac or pc gestures to switch brushes.

Learn to use the dodge, burn, and sponge tools in Photoshop to light and darken areas, bring life to images, and saturate or desaturate colors to guide the eye.

Master the foundations of layers in Photoshop, including normal, adjustment, smart objects, and text layers, plus layer masks for flexible editing.

Move and assemble a logo from one image to another using layers and the move tool, then convert the logo to a smart object to scale non-destructively without losing sharpness.

Scale and position a logo, add and format text with tracking and leading, use free transform for quick resizing, apply subtle drop shadow, and link layers for synchronized transforms.

Learn why converting a background to layer zero enables flipping only that layer, and master edit transform, rotate, and scale to tailor images for web and Instagram.

Apply non-destructive layer masks to seamlessly merge a skater into a tower scene, painting on the mask with black and white to hide or reveal areas.