Photoshop - The Ultimate Beginner's Course: Complete Guide

Learn to zoom and pan around an image in Photoshop using the zoom tool and hand tool, with shortcuts Z and H, to navigate at 100 percent and beyond.

Master Photoshop layers by creating and naming multiple layers and groups, using the layer panel, toggling visibility, and adjusting opacity and fill to build a composed image.

Change background color with the paint bucket tool or color overlay, using the color picker or hex/RGB values, and add a background image by dragging a layer into the document.

Create shapes in Photoshop using rectangle, rounded rectangle, ellipse, polygon, line, and custom shape tools, applying fill, stroke, and vector-based shapes.

Master the free transform tool to scale, rotate, skew, and distort layers, using corner handles and holding shift for precise angles, while understanding vector versus image resolution.

Learn to create borders in Photoshop using strokes, solid colors, and gradients, with shape tools and layer styles, and adjust border size, color, and stroke type.

Apply and customize layer styles in Photoshop to make text and images pop, using color overlay, shadows, stroke, and quick copy-paste of layer styles.

Adjust brightness and contrast to fix underexposed and overexposed images, balancing highlights and blacks. Save as to keep a copy, apply non-destructive adjustments, and preview changes before finalizing.

Explore how hue and saturation define colors in Photoshop, using the hue wheel and saturation triangle, and learn to isolate colors with a color picker and adjustment layer.

Discover how to change the color of a specific area by creating a selection, duplicating the layer, and adjusting hue and saturation, guided by the color wheel.

Learn how vibrance differs from saturation and use a vibrance adjustment to boost color while preserving natural skin tones, often alongside slight saturation on an adjustment layer.

Learn to open raw images in Photoshop and adjust them with Camera Raw to achieve the look you want.

Explore camera raw basics and adjust luminance by tweaking exposure, shadows, and highlights, using auto or manual controls, white balance, and color temperature to balance a photo.

Master selections and cropping in Photoshop by using the lasso, marquee, and selection tools to precisely isolate elements, apply adjustments, and crop for horizon or perspective corrections.

Learn to use marquee and other selection tools in Photoshop, unlock layers, duplicate selections with cmd/ctrl j, and refine selections with add, subtract, and spacebar moves.

Master the lasso tool and selection techniques in Photoshop, including new selections, adding to, subtracting, and intersecting, then copy selections to new layers and adjust color with hue/saturation.

Learn how to crop and straighten images in Photoshop using the crop tool, adjust aspect ratios like 16x9 or 1x1, and manage layers to preserve or delete cropped pixels.

Use the straighten tool inside the crop tool to fix a crooked horizon by dragging the horizon line. Press enter to apply crop and straighten.

Learn how to use the perspective crop tool in Photoshop to remove perspective distortion and transform angled photos into a two-dimensional, frontal, poster-like view by adjusting the corners.

Explore how to use Photoshop's built-in brushes to paint with precision. Learn how brushes underpin skin retouching and practice painting techniques to achieve professional retouched skin.

Master object removal in Photoshop by using the patch tool to replace marked areas with other image parts, and refine with the spot healing brush in content aware mode.

Explore how resolution affects image size and quality in Photoshop, learn upscaling and downscaling from 72 to 300 ppi, and compare automatic versus preserve detail options including preserve detail 2.0.

Learn how to save and export in Photoshop, using export as to create jpg files, adjust quality, scale, and color space for web use.