Photoshop 2021 Essential Training : The Basics

Learn to manage Photoshop panels by using the window menu, resetting to essentials, selecting visible panels, and arranging, floating, and hiding panels to optimize your workspace.

Switch and save Photoshop workspaces to match tasks like painting or graphic design, and create named custom layouts. Save shortcuts, menus, and toolbars, manage and delete non-active workspaces.

Learn to customize the Photoshop toolbar by editing, rearranging, and removing tools to fit your workflow. Use shortcuts, tooltips, and restore defaults to optimize access and organization.

Learn to modify and customize keyboard shortcuts in Photoshop via Edit keyboard shortcuts or Window workspace, assign shortcuts for frequent commands, handle conflicts, and boost productivity.

Identify capture formats, working and master file formats, and output formats in Photoshop, comparing JPEG and RAW with lossy compression and guidance for print and web.

Explore image quality and bit depth, from 1-bit to 24-bit, and learn how higher color depth increases file size while reducing colors can degrade quality.

Learn to use Photoshop 2021's history panel to track edits, crop images, add noise, and revert changes with keyboard shortcuts, adjusting history limits as needed.

Learn how to save and export Photoshop documents to maintain flexibility, use save as and export as options for different formats, follow standard naming conventions, and preserve the master document.

Use the crop tool to resize with corner handles, set aspect ratios, and cycle overlays such as the rule of thirds or golden ratio.

Learn three methods to straighten crooked images in Photoshop 2021: use the crop tool's straighten option, straighten manually by dragging outside the crop area, and measure with the ruler tool.

Learn to crop and resize in Photoshop 2021 basics, using the crop tool to set a 5 by 4 ratio, adjust image size and resolution, and revert changes with history.

Learn to change canvas size in Photoshop 2021 using the crop tool to extend canvas, convert the background to a layer for transparency, and set an anchor point for margins.

Explore autofill and content-aware crop in Photoshop, learning to straighten images, crop with content-aware fill to avoid white edges, and produce a complete image.

Explore Photoshop layer basics by creating a document, importing multiple images, organizing and naming layers, and using non-destructive frame tools and transforms to crop and position content.

Load multiple images into a single Photoshop document, align and distribute layers, transform and resize them, set margins and guides, and save your finished composition.

Group layers to manage complex projects, rename groups, resize all contents together with transform, and use the frame tool to convert images into circular frames.

Learn how to reduce Photoshop 2021 file size by merging and flattening layers. Remove unwanted elements and groups, and flatten the image for a compact final file.

Learn to export images in Photoshop 2021 using quick export and export as. Set formats such as JPEG, adjust quality, and manage metadata and export locations for multiple documents.

Learn to pick colors from an image using the color picker and eyedropper, add swatches, create groups, and save color themes to the Creative Cloud Library.

Select and customize brushes in Photoshop, adjusting size, hardness, shape, and opacity. Explore brush presets, enable pressure sensitivity and smoothing, and learn brush size shortcuts for dynamic strokes.

Explore creating, deleting, and using layer masks in Photoshop to nondestructively hide and reveal image areas, using black to hide and white to reveal, with brush tools.

Begin your Photoshop basics journey with this introductory lecture that motivates you to take on a fun, challenging assignment, explore new technologies, and practice your foundations.