
Access Photoshop project files, brushes, actions, and videos via Udemy resources. Understand why some videos lack resources and use the project files video and website download for large files.
Explore the Photoshop user interface, learn how panels form workspaces, and customize keyboard shortcuts and screen modes to speed up your workflow.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Photoshop tools for retouching, compositing, and photo editing, including the Clone Stamp tool, Healing Brush, Patch tool, and Content-Aware Fill and Move.
*All project files included!*
Here's what you'll learn from this course:
Introduction to Photoshop
Get over 14 hours of training designed to teach you all the basics you need to know before starting the advanced Photoshop courses. You'll learn how to navigate Photoshop's interface, what the different file types are you'll encounter in Photoshop (and when to use different types), the most common and fundamental tools in Photoshop and so much more. No matter what challenges you'll come across in Photoshop, this course will teach you the features, tools and operations you'll need to know so you can conquer whatever projects come your way.
Understanding Frequency Separation in Photoshop
Frequency separation is a common technique used by professional portrait photographers and retouchers around the world. In this course, you'll learn what frequency separation is, why it's helpful, how to set it up in Photoshop and even how to save time by building an action we can use to set up frequency separation in any of our other projects.
Advanced Photoshop: Woman in the Moon
You'll learn how build a creative image using a portrait photograph. You'll learn how to extract someone from the background while retaining details like their hair. You'll also learn how to draw shapes, add textures, building realistic glow and blending workflows.
Advanced Photoshop: Forced Perspective
You'll learn how to combine two photographs to make someone look smaller than they are using a forced perspective technique. Along with advanced masking and painting techniques, you'll learn how to manipulate images, add lighting and even more advanced blending workflows.
Advanced Photoshop: Falling Down the Rabbit Hole
You'll learn how to combine numerous photographs together for an Alice in Wonderland inspired piece of fantasy art. You'll also learn painting techniques, advanced masking workflows and how to add the illusion of motion to images.
Advanced Photoshop: Creative Maternity Photography
Everyone's seen the typical maternity photos. Make your work stand out as you'll learn the step-by-step process of building a creative maternity photograph.
Who this course is for:
Beginners. This includes courses that will take you from the first time you open Photoshop to becoming a Photoshop master
Professionals. With the wide range of tools and projects you can use Photoshop for, this course is a great way to refresh your memory on those things you don't use that often.
You. No matter your skill level, this course includes content that will help you boost your creativity in Photoshop.