Ultimate Adobe Photoshop for Beginners - Zero to Hero

Download and install Adobe Photoshop CC and review Windows and Mac system requirements before setup. Start a free trial via Creative Cloud, sign in, and explore the basic Photoshop interface.

Open Photoshop and create your first document by selecting new, then set size, orientation, and resolution (pixels per inch), choose RGB and a white background, and save a preset.

Explore the default Photoshop workspace, featuring the menubar, tool toolbox, options bar, and active tool highlights. Navigate layers, channels, adjustments, and libraries, and manage multiple workspaces for multitasking.

Customize Photoshop interface by adjusting colors and preferences, creating and saving a personalized workspace, and arranging tools, panels, and windows for photography, 3D, and motion projects.

Explore Photoshop's menu bar basics, from file and edit actions to image adjustments and layer options, and learn how to customize your workspace properties and access 3D view plugins.

Master how to insert images in Photoshop by dragging, dropping, resizing, and placing embedded images. Learn to manage images across workspaces and layers via file open and placement.

Learn to use the move tool in Photoshop to move objects on the canvas and manage artboards, including alignment, distribution, and moving between workspaces.

Master marquee tools in Photoshop to create rectangular or elliptical selections, move with spacebar, and add, subtract, or intersect areas using shift; adjust feather and view with Q.

Master the lasso tools in Photoshop, including freehand, polygon, and magnetic lasso, with tips on selecting, adding or subtracting selections, zooming, and duplicating layers.

Explore and compare Photoshop selection tools, including object selection, quick selection, magic wand, and manual tools, learning how to add or subtract from selections and refine regions.

Learn to use the crop tool in Photoshop to resize, move, center crop, straighten, and add borders or a white background, then expand the canvas to create collages with images.

learn to use the perspective crop tool in photoshop to flatten perspective, crop to a straight orientation, and set size and resolution.

Master the Photoshop slice tool to divide images for web design, create manual and auto slices, apply fixed aspect ratios or sizes, and export selected or all slices.

Continue exploring the slice tool by adding and dividing slices by pixel size, and slice from guides using control r to export selected slices as jpeg via save for web.

Use the slice select tool to move, resize (proportional with shift), duplicate, delete, align, and divide user-defined slices; manage overlaps by bringing slices to front and export for web.

Learn to use the frame tool in Photoshop, creating square and circle frames, inserting and resizing images inside frames, and transforming frame and content with precision.

Learn to use the eyedropper tool in Photoshop to sample colors from images or the workspace, switch foreground and background colors, and paint with the sampled hue using the brush.

Master the color sampler tool in Photoshop to place up to ten color samples, move them by control and drag, and delete or clear all samples via shortcuts.