Adobe Photoshop Mega Course-From Beginner to Super Designer

Learn how to start with photoshop, create projects, import photos and elements, use transform controls on layers, and create artboards.

Learn to create a new Photoshop document, set digital settings (1080x1350, rgb, 72–300 ppi), and customize workspaces and panels for efficient ux and creative workflows.

Open photos in Photoshop by file > open, drag and drop, or right-click and open with Photoshop to create a new document.

Learn to control layers in Photoshop by importing photos, using transform controls to resize, rotate, and flip, and applying warp and grid options to shape your layer.

Create artboards in Photoshop by using file > new, choose a mobile or web canvas like iPhone X; add, resize, and drag boards, which stay separated in the layer panel.

Clarify Photoshop shortcuts for Mac and Windows, noting that Command equals Control and Option equals Alt, and explain how Shift affects scaling based on height and width connection.

Master the layer panel in Photoshop, focusing on mask layers and clipping masks, essential tools that unlock many possibilities for beginners to work confidently.

Master the layer panel in Photoshop to rename, duplicate, move, and delete layers; adjust blending modes, opacity, fill and stroke; and manage layer locks and art boards for precise design.

Group layers in the layer panel by selecting them and pressing command/ctrl G or right-clicking. Convert to a smart object to treat as one layer yet edit individually by double-clicking.

Explore Photoshop adjustment effects and layer style effects, including hue/saturation, curves, levels, brightness and contrast, solid color fills, gradient maps, and drop shadow, color overlay, bevel and emboss.

Master layer masks and clipping masks in Photoshop to confine painting and edits to shapes, using brushes, shortcuts, and blend options for polished masked effects.

Master alignment options in Photoshop by duplicating shapes with alt, using shift for guides, rulers, extras, and snap tools to distribute or center layers.

Explore adjustment layers, smart filters, clone tools, and healing tools to enhance images, and apply these techniques to create a beautiful artwork.

Explore how adjustment layers in Photoshop enable color and tonal edits using solid colors, gradients, patterns, and layer masks, with tools for brightness, contrast, levels, curves, hue and saturation.

Master smart filters on smart objects to edit nondestructively with gaussian blur, field blur, iris blur, tilt shift, and other filter gallery effects.

Master the clone stamp, pattern stamp, and healing tools—rasterize smart objects as needed—to remove objects, retouch shadows, and apply content aware fill for seamless editing.

Apply your Photoshop skills in this homework to create a piece like the sample, using two photos, with a step-by-step walkthrough in the next lesson.

Combine photos, create a new document, and build a sunblock composition using clipping masks, shadows, and highlights with gaussian blur and color overlay techniques.

Explore Photoshop selection tools to remove backgrounds, including complex hair, using the pen tool and channels for curly hair, and complete your first poster homework.

Master the object selection tool to draw a rectangle and let Photoshop guess the object with enhance edge and object subtract, then remove the background non-destructively with a layer mask.

Master the quick selection and magic wand tools, then refine your cut with select and mask settings—non-destructive masking, refine edge, and brush controls for hair and edge accuracy.

Master the lasso and pen tools for precise selections in Photoshop by combining tools, turning paths into selections, refining masks, and using brushes to recover areas.

Use rgb channels to remove the background in photoshop, duplicating the blue channel and refining edges with select and mask; repaint hair areas on a new layer and test backgrounds.

Complete your first homework after finishing the selection tool section by placing the fish from the two photos inside the road, and await the next lesson for step-by-step design guidance.

Compose a poster by combining photos from Pixabay, Pexels, and Unsplash, extract the fish, mask and refine edges, place behind a tree, and add shadow and light with Photoshop.

Discover shape layers in Photoshop and learn everything you need to know about them. Complete a guided project with homework and a step-by-step demonstration.

demonstrates how to use Photoshop shape tools to create and customize shapes, apply fills, strokes, gradients and patterns, and master path operations like combine, subtract, intersect, and exclude.

Master Photoshop's pen tool, curvature, and free-form tools to draw paths, adjust curves with handles, add or remove points, and switch to direct selection and path tools.

Practice what you learned in the shape layer section by creating a social media poster using provided photo. The next lesson guides you step by step to finalize the poster.

Design a social media poster in Photoshop by building a 1000x1000 layout with shapes, colors, pattern fills, blending modes, clipping masks, and layered text.

Master the text tools in Photoshop to design a striking poster, practice what you learn, and build skills from beginner to super designer.

Learn to create and customize text in Photoshop using the horizontal type tool, selecting fonts, sizes, colors, and alignment, and adjusting line and letter spacing, edge resolution, and paragraph settings.

Master the warp text tool to bend and distort type using presets or manual controls. Hide the selection highlight with the move tool and adjust horizontal or vertical distortion.

Learn to place text along a path in Photoshop with curvature tool and type tool. Adjust start and end with path selection tool, and create text inside circles or shapes.

design a Nike-style poster using the text tool, layer masks, and brushes with a provided cut-out photo; follow along as the next lesson guides you step by step.

Create a Nike-style Instagram poster by arranging the centered figure and the 'just do it' letters with layer masks for depth, plus a turquoise background.

Explore the core layer styles in Photoshop, review each style quickly, and apply them to craft beautiful, eye-catching designs.

Explore how to apply layer styles in Photoshop, including bevel emboss, contour, texture, stroke, inner shadow, inner glow, satin, color and gradient overlays, pattern overlays, outer glow, and drop shadow.

Learn to create gold and silver text effects in Photoshop using layer styles, color overlays, inner shadow, bubble emboss, extrusion, and smart objects.

Master creating a metallic text style in Photoshop using layer styles, gradients, textures, and patterns, with bevel emboss, inner shadow, satin, and gradient overlays.

Create a golden bevel text using Photoshop layer styles, applying stroke, bevel emboss, highlights, and shadows for a glowing, realistic finish.

Create stitch style text in Photoshop using layer styles, textures, and custom stitch brushes, then refine with bevel emboss, inner glow, color overlays, and ripple to achieve a jeans-inspired look.

Explore the camera raw filter in Photoshop to enhance photos, learn its features, and save your own style as a preset, recognizing camera raw as an alternative to Lightroom.

Explore how to use Adobe Camera Raw in Photoshop to adjust profiles, white balance, exposure, contrast, highlights, shadows, texture, clarity, dehaze, vibrance, and saturation for vibrant photos.

Master the Photoshop tone curve to adjust highlights and shadows across RGB channels using parametric and point modes, with presets to shape contrast and color balance.

Sharpen the photo with edge masking to apply sharpening only to borders, adjust radius and details, and balance noise reduction while noting the next lesson covers HSL adjustments.

Explore hsl adjustments by tweaking hue, saturation, and luminance across reds, oranges, yellows, greens, aquas, blues, purples, and magentas to color and enhance your images.

Apply split toning to control highlights and shadows, adjust color saturation, and balance the look in Camera Raw. Compare before and after to see the dramatic color shifts.

Apply lens correction in camera raw to reduce chromatic aberration and vignetting, enable profile correction for your Canon EOS R, and fine-tune distortion manually.

Explore grain and vignetting to add noise and texture to photos, adjusting amount, size, roughness, midpoint, roundness, feather, highlights, color priority, and painting overlay.

Use camera calibration to fine-tune shadows and rgb colors—adjust reds, greens, and blues with hue and saturation, and explore presets like process v5 to match the original scene.

Explore essential Photoshop tools, including zoom, crop, horizon correction, healing and spot removal brushes, clone brushes, eye correction, and adjustment brushes in Camera Raw, with hands-on examples and presets.

Learn how to create presets in Camera Raw, save and load them, and adjust smart object edits in Photoshop for consistent results.

Create a camera raw preset using the HSL, split toning, and other adjustments, keeping the crop unchecked; apply it to a photo for homework and share your log ideas.

Prepare your environment for 3D and dive into 3D in Photoshop to explore tools and master tips and tricks for creating a 3D poster.

Create a document in Photoshop, place an image, and turn 4D text into 3D via extrusion, then switch to the 3D workspace to adjust environment, orbit, and horizon alignment.

Master 3D text effects in Photoshop by adjusting bevel, edge controls, extrude, twist, and taper, then apply preset materials, metallic and roughness textures, and lighting.

Apply a background photo as the global ambient in the 3d workspace to create a reflection on the text, then adjust the environment and lighting and save a camera preset.

Create and position a 3D box by extruding a square, apply texture and materials, adjust lighting and shadows, and place the box behind the text.

Create and position 3D boxes around the 4D text in Photoshop, adjust lighting and camera, render, and rasterize for a finalized layered 3D scene.

Separate the 4 and d in a Photoshop 3D scene by splitting extrusion, adjust position and rotation, then rasterize, render shadows with shape layers, and refine lighting for crisp design.

Practice your 3D in Photoshop skills by applying what you learned to this photo or any image, then share your result in the Facebook group.