Photoshop Explained! - Complete Photoshop CC Course

Set up and customize Photoshop preferences to tailor the interface, color theme, font size, and performance, so you work comfortably from the start.

Discover color settings in Photoshop by choosing working spaces like rgb 1998, adobe rgb, and prophoto rgb, and decide when to use cmyk for print and rgb for web.

Explore the Photoshop workspace, including the tool panel on the left, adjustable panels, essential panels, layers, and how to customize a workspace for your needs.

Master quick start in Photoshop by opening images or creating a new project with keyboard shortcuts, choosing pixel units and web or print resolutions, RGB color mode, and transparent background.

Discover how to start with Camera Raw in Photoshop, compare Jopek and tif file formats, and adjust exposure, white balance, contrast, highlights, shadows, clarity, vibrance, and saturation to improve images.

Learn to control camera raw tones and details in Photoshop explained, balancing shadows, midtones, and highlights with the curve, and mastering sharpening and noise reduction using luminance and color controls.

Explore Camera Raw's hsl and grayscale panels to adjust hue, saturation, and luminance across reds, greens, purples, and more, then convert to grayscale for dynamic black-and-white effects.

Learn to perform split toning in Camera Raw by balancing highlights and shadows with hue choices, saturation, and a color wheel for complementary tones.

Adjust the dehaze slider to control haze, moving left for a milky, misty look and right to reduce mist for a crisper, clearer image.

Explore how layers drive Photoshop workflows, duplicating and renaming layers, controlling visibility, and using non-destructive layer masks to paint, adjust brightness, and blend images.

Explore how adjustment layers enable non-destructive editing in Photoshop, using brightness, contrast, curves, hue-saturation, and color effects with layer masks to fine-tune images.

Explore the differences between levels and curves in Photoshop using adjustment layers to control brightness and contrast. Learn how curves enable creative color adjustments and cross processing beyond levels.

Explore vibrance, hue/saturation, color balance, channel mixer, selective color, and black and white adjustment layers in Photoshop CC to non-destructively enhance color and skin tones.

Learn how adjustment layers, photo filters, and channel mixer shape image color by balancing red, green, and blue channels, including monochrome mode.

Explore how to use color adjustment layers, gradient maps, and selective color in Photoshop to tune shadows and highlights, adjust color tones, and enhance portraits and landscapes.

Explore Photoshop blending modes, including normal, multiply, screen, overlay, and color blending, and learn how to use adjustment layers, opacity, and color tools to enhance images.

Apply fill layers in Photoshop to color, gradient, and pattern fills, adjusting opacity and blending modes for creative effects. Learn to create and use patterns for wallpapers.

Explore basic selection tools in Photoshop, using rectangular and elliptical marquee options, lasso varieties, and selection modes, then apply non-destructive edits with layer masks, feathering, and curves.

Master the quick selection tool and the magic wand, compare their differences, and refine edges to create precise selections on simple backgrounds and handle tricky areas.

Master precise pen tool selection in Photoshop, outperforming quick selection with polygonal edges, and use feather settings and layer-based edits to refine edges and remove hair.

Discover the essential retouching tools in Photoshop, including brush, clone stamp, and patch tool, and learn nondestructive workflows with new layers for precise skin retouching.

Compare the clone stamp and healing brush in Photoshop, showing how sampling texture versus color affects results, and when to use each tool for skin, nails, and edge retouching.

Explore the Photoshop filter gallery and learn to use filters with layer masks and adjustment layers for nondestructive edits, unlocking artistic effects from brush strokes to sketches and textures.

Learn to use the liquify tool in Photoshop to gently adjust body and facial features, using the pucker tool and pressure controls while avoiding extreme, fake-looking edits.

Explore gaussian blur and motion blur in Photoshop, compare box blur options, adjust radius and opacity, and use layers and masks to selectively blur for dreamy effects and dynamic lighting.

Explore the differences between smart blur and surface blur, and learn how radius and threshold influence edge preservation and noise reduction, while avoiding skin detail loss.

Learn a nondestructive sharpening workflow in Photoshop using surface blur, layered groups, and blending modes to control edge preservation, detail enhancement, and selective masking.

Explore Photoshop sharpening options, including Smart Sharpen and Unsharp Mask, and compare Shake Reduction and edge sharpening. Apply sharpening non-destructively with layer masks and careful radius and amount controls.

Sharpen with the high pass filter in Photoshop by layering two edits, radii around 5–10 pixels, and blending with soft light, overlay, or vivid light for controlled edges.

Learn sharpening techniques to even skin texture and remove tiny white dots using an unsharp mask. Use duplicate layers, overlay blending, and layer masks to refine results with controlled brushwork.

Explore Photoshop blur filters such as gaussian blur, tilt-shift, and motion blur, with tips on adjusting radius, direction, and masking to keep the center sharp.

Explore smart objects and smart filters to apply lighting effects and filters such as crystallize, pixelate, and mosaic for abstract Photoshop results.

Explore layer styles in Photoshop, mastering blending options, blend if, opacity, and the underlying versus top layers to craft text and shapes with precise color effects.

Explore blending options in Photoshop, compare opacity and fill, and adjust contour, texture, and patterns to control what remains inside versus what surrounds the image.

Master layer styles in Photoshop by applying stroke, shadows, glow, bevel and contour, and explore blending options, gradients, color, and pattern fills to enhance text and images.

Conclude this course with an invitation to request more specific lessons and monthly updates. Explore what you can achieve in Photoshop retouching and image editing as you continue learning.

Master landscape dynamic range in Photoshop by adjusting exposure, shadows, highlights, and contrast with Camera Raw, then refine color using selective color, color balance, gradient map, and luminosity blending.