Ultimate Photoshop: Creative Professional Masterclass

Explore the Photoshop user interface, learn how panels form workspaces, and customize keyboard shortcuts and screen modes to speed up your workflow.

Organize Photoshop panels by adding from the Window menu, dragging to rearrange, and closing tab groups to customize your interface.

Reset Photoshop to its default workspace, then create, save, update, and delete custom workspaces to streamline your workspace setup.

Learn how to use screen modes in Photoshop to hide the interface and focus on your work, cycle between modes with F, and toggle panels with Tab and Shift+Tab.

Explore Photoshop documents (psds) as the native file type, learn how to create new documents, save versus save as, manage multiple files, and navigate workflows efficiently.

Learn to create new documents in Photoshop using file new, explore presets, custom presets, and manage width, height, orientation, resolution, color modes, and background contents.

Pan with the hand tool and spacebar to toggle tools, and zoom with the zoom tool or ctrl/cmd plus minus. Use the navigator panel for context.

Explore color modes in Photoshop, from CMYK for print to RGB for screens, and learn how each mode uses channels and values or percentages to shape final images.

Understand how bit depth stores color information, from 1-bit to 32-bit, and how RGB channels, gradient smoothness, and banding affect image quality in Photoshop.

Create a seamless multi-image panorama for instagram by merging photos, aligning with overlap, and slicing with guides into four pixel-perfect images, using photoshop's photo merge, guides, and slice tools.

Learn to use grids and snapping in Photoshop, customize grid color and size, adjust subdivisions, and snap objects to grid, guides, or layers for precise alignment, including the pixel grid.

Explore layers in Photoshop to unlock powerful photo editing capabilities. Learn the basics of using layers, layer masks, and clipping paths to control different parts of your image.

Explore Photoshop layers, including pixel, vector, background, adjustment, smart objects, 3d, and video layers, and learn to organize with groups and renaming.

Learn to create, duplicate, and delete layers in Photoshop, convert the background to an editable pixel layer, and organize with groups while managing opacity.

Master clipping masks in Photoshop by framing a photo with a container layer and clipping the top layer to reveal pixels inside it. Keep the layer order in mind.

Learn to use layer masks in a mini project to isolate a turtle, paint non-destructively, and refine with clipping masks and adjustment layers for targeted color and detail.

Understand the difference between opacity and fill in Photoshop, use keyboard shortcuts to adjust opacity, and see how fill affects only the layer's pixels while opacity affects the whole layer.

Explore how blend modes affect layered images in Photoshop, including overlay, multiply, and screen, and learn top-bottom layering, opacity, and compounding effects.

Organize layers into groups, back up originals, and merge selected or visible layers, noting how merging changes blend modes and opacity and how flattening reduces file size.

Master Photoshop selections by exploring marquee, lasso, magic wand tools, and painting techniques, and learn to save and load selections for reusable workflows.

Learn to use the lasso family in Photoshop, including the plain lasso, polygonal lasso, and magnetic lasso, adjust feathering, refine edges, and create precise selections.

Master the quick selection tool in Photoshop to paint selections by color, add or remove areas with alt keys, and leverage sample all layers and quick mask mode.

Paint with the brush tool in quick mask mode to create a mask that Photoshop converts into a selection when you exit quick mask mode.

Learn to quickly isolate a subject in Photoshop with select subject and select and mask, refine edges with quick mask and hair adjustments, and create a layer mask for edits.

Explore smart objects in Photoshop, where embedded source files enable non-destructive editing and scalable images with less pixelation than normal layers. See how instances update together when edited.

learn how to create and edit smart objects in Photoshop, convert layers to smart objects, edit by double-clicking the thumbnail, and manage linked versus copied smart objects to control updates.

Explore powerful transformation tools in Photoshop, including Free Transform, distortion, cropping with data kept, and image straightening. Master Puppet Warp and Perspective Warp to perform major edits on photographs.

Master free transform in Photoshop to move, scale, and rotate layers; leverage smart objects to preserve edits, and use shortcuts like Ctrl/Cmd T with snap to 15-degree increments.

Explore how to use the puppet warp tool in Photoshop to warp and distort layers with pins, adjust density and mode, and control edge expansion for creative image manipulation.

Learn how to use the perspective warp tool in Photoshop, enabling the graphics processor, laying out a perspective grid, and warping to straighten or distort images in a two-step workflow.

Explore Photoshop tools for retouching, compositing, and photo editing, including the Clone Stamp tool, Healing Brush, Patch tool, and Content-Aware Fill and Move.

Remove the person from a beach photo using non-destructive edits on a new layer with the clone stamp and healing brush, sampling sources and blending to natural edges.