Course details

Level: Beginner                                     Released: 11/5/2019

Photoshop is the industry standard for creative visual expression. Whether you’re an experienced creative pro or just starting on your creative journey, learning how to use Photoshop is the best investment you can make in your work. In this course, Julieanne Kost teaches you the essentials of Photoshop 2020. Discover how to open and navigate documents, customize the Photoshop interface, and start editing photos. Julieanne shows how to crop and transform images, make detailed selections, work with layers and masks, retouch photos, and use Smart Objects and adjustment layers to apply nondestructive modifications to your images. Plus, get tips for working with type and layer effects. By the end of this course, you’ll be empowered to use Photoshop to quickly get the image results you want.

Learning objectives

• Opening and viewing files
• Customizing the interface
• Document size, bit depth, and color space
• Crop, transform and warp
• Managing layers and masking
• Making detailed selections
• Editing and retouching
• Using adjustment layers
• Applying smart filters
• Working with type and layer effects

Course details

Level: Beginner                                             Released: 12/13/2019

Go one-on-one with world-renowned Photoshop expert Deke McClelland. The first of a three-part series, this course is your chance to master the fundamentals of Photoshop as you’ve never seen them before. It's everything you need to know, in the order you need to know it, complete with eye-popping imagery and practical advice. Best of all, it’s been completely updated for Photoshop 2020, the 30th anniversary edition of the program. Deke shows how to crop and straighten photographs, adjust brightness and contrast, correct color cast, and retouch portraits. You can also learn such skills as editing nondestructively with layers, making complex selections, developing photos in Camera Raw, and preparing photos for print. Come with questions, leave with answers—and a real sense of accomplishment.

Learning objectives

• Opening and closing images
• Navigating an image by zooming and scrolling
• Adding new layers and layer masks
• Clipping and merging layers
• Copying and pasting layers between files
• Saving images to different file formats
• Adjusting brightness and contrast
• Correcting color cast and white balance
• Developing images in Camera Raw
• Adjusting Saturation and Vibrance
• Selectively adjusting colors in Camera Raw
• Making complex, organic selections
• Cropping and straightening images
• Painting with the Photoshop Brush tool
• Retouching portraits with the healing brushes
• Changing image size and resolution
• Preparing images for local laser printing
• Optimizing and saving images for the web

A comprehensive collection of instructional videos for the beginner and more experienced user.  These videos cover topics including working with layers, image quality, selections, composite photos, and adding graphics. Most of these videos are short and will assist you when you need to understand how to execute a particular task.