Learn Photoshop CC Essentials

Explore Photoshop fundamentals with an interface tour, customize and save workspaces, and learn to open, create documents, and zoom and navigate to boost your workflow.

Demystify the Photoshop user interface by exploring the tools panel, the options bar, dock panels, and workspaces.

Master the history panel in Photoshop cc essentials to undo mistakes by stepping back through actions, using snapshots, and managing multiple history states with tools like brush and paint bucket.

Learn to resize and crop images in Photoshop, explore a new cropping tool, resize the canvas, and use free transform to rotate and resize layers.

learn how to resize images in photoshop using the image size dialog, maintaining aspect ratio with constrained proportions, and understand effects of upscaling on image quality.

Learn how to use the canvas size command to add space around an image, and how it differs from image size that stretches content. Explore anchor and relative sizing.

Revisit Photoshop cc essentials by resizing images and canvases with crop and free transform, then double the canvas size and rotate the layer for deeper hands-on practice.

Learn what a selection is in Photoshop and how to create one, including elliptical selections, adding or subtracting areas, transforming, floating selections, quick selections, and duplicating selections.

Master rectangular and elliptical marquee tools in Photoshop to create precise selections, constrain to squares with shift, and reposition by dragging or using the spacebar.

Learn to add to and subtract from selections in Photoshop CC using rectangular and elliptical marquee tools, plus the add and subtract options for creating complex shapes.

learn to create floating selections in Photoshop with the marquee and move tool, background color appears, and duplicate selections by dragging with the Alt key, using subtract to cut away.

Explore advanced selection tools in Photoshop, including the lasso, magnetic lasso, and magic wand, with tips on creating and refining selections using anchor points, paths, and tolerance settings.

Explore working with layers in Photoshop, from understanding layers and organizing with groups to blending modes, resizing, renaming, selecting multiple layers, and adding artistic or paragraph text.

Learn to remove a background in Photoshop by selecting the object with the magic wand, inverting the selection, and keeping the subject on a transparent layer for easy composition.

Learn three ways to combine images in Photoshop CC: drag one image into another, place and resize a new image, and rasterize before editing.

Learn how to rearrange, resize, and rename layers in Photoshop CC Essentials, using free transform to resize and rotate, manage layer order, and merge or flatten layers.

Learn how to select and manipulate multiple layers in Photoshop CC, using ctrl and shift for multi-select, transform without merging, move with the move tool, and link layers for editing.

Organize layers in Photoshop by creating layer groups and folders in the layers panel. Learn to group, rename, move, adjust opacity, and apply blend modes like multiply to improve readability.

Learn to filter layers by type in Photoshop CC using the filter bar, surfacing text, color, or background layers by kind, name, or blend mode.

Learn to retouch and color-correct photos in Photoshop, remove red eyes and blemishes, adjust brightness and contrast, use auto and manual corrections, and apply nondestructive edits with adjustment layers.

Remove red eye in Photoshop CC Essentials with the red eye removal tool, located under the spot healing tool; click or drag to select, then adjust darken and pupil size.

Master touch ups and spot healing in Photoshop CC essentials by applying the spot healing brush, healing brush, clone stamp, and patch tool to remove blemishes and refine edges.

master color correction for beginners by using levels and curves to balance light and dark, adjust hue, saturation, and lightness with colorize, and explore invert and desaturate in image adjustments.

Learn to apply and combine filters in Photoshop to add special effects, explore the filtered gallery, edit non-destructively, and use layer styles for quick, striking visuals.

Learn how Photoshop filters add special effects, clean up and retouch photos, with adjustable dialog windows for blur, sharpen, swirl, and mosaic, plus tips on processing power and previews.

Convert layers to smart objects to apply filters non-destructively. Use the filter gallery and layer masks to preview, adjust, and mask effects without altering the original image.

Use the layer style dialog in Photoshop CC to apply multiple options, such as color overlay, stroke, inner shadow, and outer glow, to affect the entire layer.

Celebrate finishing the beginner’s Photoshop course by mastering the interface, workspaces, selections, layers, retouching, color correction, and effects, then continue with tutorials to build advanced skills.