Photoshop for Everyone. Beginner to Power User

Release date:2021, February 3

Author:Adam Dove

Skill level:Beginner

Language:English

Exercise files:Yes

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Getting Started

We will cover the user-interface, navigating your document, as well as the fundamental tools (such as move, crop, transform, and rotate) needed to operate Photoshop. This chapter is designed to give everyone a great launch pad for the more advanced techniques we will be covering in the whole course. We’ll hit on effects, adjustment layers, and filters, and the major differences between all of them and when to use each one.

Chapter 2: Advanced Techniques

I’ll cover the power of masking and smart objects while taking the time to thoroughly explain what is happening and what Photoshop is doing in each scenario. These are fundamental techniques that will repeat in nearly every video. Repetition is key in your ability to absorb the information and be able use them after the course is over. You will truly learn Photoshop. We will also create a project by combining key features from three different images to appear as if they are one single image. This is called image compositing, and it’s also core skill in Photoshop. By the end, you will know exactly how it’s done and be able to replicate it on your own projects. We’ll also cover the very powerful Camera Raw Filter and unlock the mystery of channels and how to exploit them to make very complex masks, easily, quickly, and accurately.

Chapter 3: Text and Layout

While Photoshop isn’t meant for heavy text layout, it does have some very powerful text layout tools for single page documents. We’ll start by creating a magazine cover, and learn a more conservative approach to type-setting and layout, focusing on legibility and text masking. We will end the chapter by showcasing Photoshop’s effects panel by bringing a rather boring piece of font to life into a creative piece of text art that is oozing with personality!

Chapter 4: Image Manipulation

This chapter will be fundamentally important to the remainder of the course. I will take some time to showcase the tools we use to manipulate images. I’ll cover how to make things look as if they were never there with the content-aware tools powered by Photoshop. I’ll also show you how to preserve the integrity of the image by making manipulations non-destructively so the original image stays in tact. This will be a technical demonstration, rather than project-focused. These are more advanced tools, however they are fundamentally core to your understanding of Photoshop.

Chapter 5: Portrait Retouching

When someone thinks of Photoshop, they almost immediately think about portrait retouching. In this chapter we will use what we have learned so far to remove blemishes, brighten eyes and whiten teeth. We’ll cover how to select hair and have a realistic result. We’ll cover gradient mapping, and how it’s used to make drab portraits come to life while still looking believable. We’ll cover how to tilt shift a background to add depth and creativity to a portrait. We’ll also dive deep into a technique called frequency separation. This is how the professional retouchers edit their photos to retain the realistic quality while having total control over skin blemishes, lines, and texture without affecting the tone of the skin. It’s like magic, but you will understand it and be able to replicate it just as well as a professional image retoucher.

Chapter 6: Advanced Image Manipulation

This chapter is chock full of learning! It’s where everything starts to come together as you start to unlock Photoshop’s DNA. You’ll have that “aha!” moment you desire. We’ll cover displacement maps by making our text art look like it’s physically painted on a brick wall with weather distressing and everything! We’ll take things even further in our selections by showing how to easily and quickly change the color of objects. While this is often the “good enough” way, I will take some time and teach you the slightly complex, but extremely powerful pen tool to make more intricate selections to have more control over your adjustment layers and masks. This will also have more applications by being a more reliable way to create selections using a path. You’ll be able to use, and even teach others, how to use the pen tool. Once you have it down, it will be all you want to use. No longer fear it. Embrace it and unlock one of the tools that shows the real power of Photoshop!

The project for this chapter will be the creation of a book dust jacket from scratch using many of the techniques in Chapter 1 – Chapter 5. This will further cement the knowledge we’ve learned so far by showing using techniques in a real-world situation. Absorption through application and repetition is key to success in Photoshop.

We’ll be using a combination of masking and adjustment layers to create a cool double exposure effect with a female model and a city skyline.

We’ll close out the chapter by ratcheting up our skills in image compositing to create more believable lighting situations using stacked adjustment layers for a totally non-destructive edit!

Chapter 7: Brushes

Brushes are a core element of Photoshop. In this chapter we’ll learn about how to adjust the behavior or existing brushes, how to create and save our own brushes, as well as how to convert an image to a reusable brush.

Sometimes you want to purchase or download brushes and install them. We’ll cover how to install your downloaded brushes and use them in your artwork.

I’ll show you a technique digital painters use to shade and add value their digital drawings, using brushes and blend modes.

We’ll also cover how brushes can respond to pen pressure when using a drawing tablet.

Chapter 8: Machine Learning

Photoshop has made some incredible advancements in machine learning. I’ll cover what machine learning is and how we can use some of the smart functions as editors and designers to dramatically speed up our work. We’ll cover how to easily select a background that is out of focus, how to pinpoint and adjust facial features using the Liquify filter, how to select and replace a sky in a way that is extremely realistic, and a most impressive way to colorize black and white photographs and images using the power of neural filters.

Chapter 9: Final Things You Should Know

Some things you just can’t put into a proper example during a project, but none-the-less they are still important functions of Photoshop that need to be covered. At this stage you will understand what Photoshop is doing and how it works so you can fundamentally create, edit, and manipulate images without software standing in your way. While I personally haven’t used these techniques that much in my professional life, they are important to cover because you may have a ton of use for them!

It’s a great time to talk about creating and using a pattern in your work with the new “pattern preview” mode in Photoshop.

We’ll also cover the puppet warp tool and how to manipulate the position of specific points on an image for a realistic effect. Ever have the perfect photo but the person’s arm is just a little bit too high in the shot? Proper use of a non-destructive puppet warp filter will fix that.

Another very powerful tool is Photoshop Actions. Actions allow you to record, save, then execute a series of steps that would otherwise be repetitive and time consuming. We’ll learn how to create an action and dramatically speed up the busy-work, saving you time by being able to complete work faster. If you’re freelancing, this also translates into more real world money.

Finally, we will close out the chapter and the course with how to easily customize your user interface and how to share your work with a client, or the world using Photoshop’s built in sharing functionality.

01. Getting Started 01. Turn off auto-select 02. Setting up your preferences 03. Opening an image 04. Photoshop user interface 05. Layers panel part 1 06. Layers panel part 2 07. Navigating your document 08. The move tool part 1 09. The move tool part 2 10. Free transform basics 11. The crop tool part 1 12. The crop tool part 2 13. Opacity vs. fill adjustment 14. Effects, adjustment layers, and filters 15. Selection tools part 1 16. Selection tools part 2 17. Selection tools part 3 18. Selection tools part 4

02. Advanced Tools and Techniques 01. Masking part 1 02. Masking part 2 03. Smart objects part 1 04. Smart objects part 2 05. Preparing a composite image 06. Masking using channels part 1 07. Masking using channels part 2 08. Creating snow using add noise 09. Camera raw filter 10. Masking adjustment layers

03. Text and Layout 01. Basics of the text tool 02. Masking text 03. Deactivating pop-up glyphs 04. Paragraph text and shape tool 05. Finishing our magazine cover 06. Creative text using effects

04. Image Manipulation 01. Content aware patch tool 02. Content aware spot healing brush 03. Content aware move tool 04. Clone stamp tool 05. Using clone stamp tool non-destructively 06. Content Aware Healing Brush 07. Content aware scale 08. Content aware fill

05. Portrait Retouching 01. Portrait retouching part 1 02. Portrait retouching part 2 03. Gradient map portrait enhancement 04. Tilt shift portrait enhancement 05. Enhancing smile and eyes 06. Frequency separation part 1 07. Frequency separation part 2 08. Selecting hair and color toning

06. Advanced Image Manipulation 01. Displacement map 02. Quick color replacement 03. Color replacement using the pen tool 04. Manipulating selections with the pen tool 05. Creating a book cover dust jacket part 1 06. Creating a book cover dust jacket part 2 07. Creating a book cover dust jacket part 3 08. Stacking adjustments for creative effects 09. Easy double exposure effect 10. Make realistic composite images

07. Brushes 01. Creating a brush from scratch 02. Adjusting brush settings 03. Creating a brush from a photo 04. How to install Photoshop brushes 05. Easily paint shadows in multiply blend mode 06. Using a pen tablet

08. Machine Learning 01. Area focus selection and refinement 02. Liquify tool 03. Sky selection 04. Sky replacement 05. Colorize an image with a neural filter

09. Final Things You Should Know 01. Creating and using a pattern 02. Puppet Warp tool 03. How to create a Photoshop action 04. Customizing the user interface 05. Easily and quickly share your work

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