Adobe Photoshop Complete Mastery Course Beginner to Advanced

Welcome to the Complete Photoshop Mastery Course for Beginners. I'm excited that you're here. I can't wait to teach you how to kick ass at Photoshop!

This is an optional lecture for anyone who does not already have Photoshop installed on their computer. It will walk you through how and where to purchase Photoshop CC.

This Photoshop course is designed to be hands-on. This lecture teaches you how to download the images from the course, so that you can use them and practice what you're learning. That's the fastest, most powerful way to learn and get good at Photoshop.

Let's use the clone tool to fix some blemishes. This is one of the easiest and most magical fixes in Photoshop. Once you get the hang of this tool it can do hours worth of tedious brush work in just minutes!

If you follow the advice in this lecture, you'll not only learn more from the course, you'll learn faster. My most important piece of advice is to commit 20 hours to learning Photoshop. This includes time watching lectures AND time practice on assignments. Write down your hours and keep track. If you do this, you'll be amazed at how much you learn about Photoshop after those 20 hours!

This lecture will help you to understand where everything is in the Photoshop interface and what the different parts are called.

You can even tweak the interface to make it exactly how you want it. This lecture shows you how to customize it.

At the end of this lecture, you'll know the most important Photoshop shortcut keystrokes for both Mac and PC.

Now it's time to get some hands-on practice with important keyboard shortcuts.

Let's take a look at the 5 most important, or highly used tools in Photoshop.

1. Move

2. Select

3. Crop

4. Brush

5. Zoom

The brush tool is sooo versatile! Not only can you use it for brushing artistically, you can use it to add to or take a way from layer masks, you can use it to create highlights and shadows or you can add texture and color to parts of an image.

In this assignment, we can begin to do real photo editing work in Photoshop. We're going to use all of the skills we've learned so far to cut out a coffee cup and place it into another image.

In this lecture, we'll keep our momentum going. We'll learn to use the crop tool to create a social media profile image.

You've already learned how to crop an image smaller. Now, it's time to learn how to crop an image bigger using the content aware tool. This awesome tool with actually add to your image and fill in the blank spaces. It doesn't always do this perfectly, so you have to stay on your toes. But, it is often surprisingly good add doing this!

This lecture will teach you a bunch of tips and tricks and more keyboard shortcuts. We'll practice opening and cropping an image of a rose. Then we'll brush a little vignette around it.

Using text allows you to create lots of different things in Photoshop such as Business Cards, Greeting Cards, Posters, Ads, Memes, and more. This lecture will show you the basics of using text in Photoshop.

The gradient tool is useful for creating more interesting distributions of color for backgrounds. This can be helpful for business cards, posters, ads, etc. Gradients go really well behind text to make if more interesting. In this lecture, I'll show you how to use it.

Layers are very important in Photoshop for two main reasons. First, they allow you to work non-destructively, which means you don't have to damage your original photo with your edits. Second, they allow you to much more easily remove edits and do your own previews of various edits.

What can layers do? There are so many answers to this question. They can help you work non-destructively. They can allow you to composite different images or effects into one image. They can allow you to quickly and easily compare one effect versus another effect.

Adjustment layers are just cool. They allow you to make significant changes to the color, brightness, etc. of your image without affecting the original image.

Here we'll learn how to add a black and white adjustment layer to an image. Not only can you turn your image black and white, you can use the colors in the underlying image to change lightness and contrast in specific areas of your image.

Hue and saturation is a very useful adjustment layer. You can make your image warmer or cooler. You can also increase or reduce the effect of just one individual color.

This lecture will teach you how to move layers around, group them, show and hide many layers at once, make them more visible, and more.

Navigating successfully in the layers panel is so important that we have two lectures on the subject.

Once you add an adjustment layer, you can take your adjustment one step further by changing the blending modes. You can also use the layers panel menu to sort through different layers by layer time or layer name.

This is just a fun little quiz where you have to decide, based on what you've learned so far, which adjustment layer should you use to change this photo to look like the example provided. I hope you figure out the answer. If not, I'll show you how to do it in the next lecture.

Here is the solution to Assignment #6.

Selections allow you to isolate a part of your image so that you can make an adjustment just to that part. In this lecture we'll look at the lasso and marquee tools for making selections.

Selections allow you to isolate a part of your image so that you can make an adjustment just to that part. In this lecture we'll look at the crown jewel of selection tools, the quick selection tool.

This is a super fun project where we use the selection tool to cut the background out of a mountain scene. Then we open several new background images and change out the sky in our image for very different effects.

Some subjects are more difficult to select than others. In this assignment, we'll work on refining our selection of some coffee beans so that our adjustment still looks natural.

This first project is a simple teeth whitening on a subject. But it involves a few of the different skills that we have learned. Put together, these skills allow you to lighten and remove the yellow from just the teeth of your subject. Very cool!

Some selections can be difficult and time consuming. There is nothing worse than spending a ton of time on a selection and then losing it for some reason and not being able to get it back. For this, and other reasons, it's great to be able to save your selection for later use. In this video I'll show you how to save a selection and how to load saved selections into your Photoshop document.

In this video you'll learn what layer masks are, why they are useful, and some quick tips and keyboard shortcuts for working with them more efficiently.

Before you can use a layer mask, you first have to create one. In this lecture I'll show you three quick ways to create a layer mask;

1. Create a layer mask with an adjustment layer (which you've already learned).

2. Create a layer mask from a selection.

3. Create a layer mask from scratch and then add to it using the gradient or brush tools.

Figuring out the difference between foreground/background colors vs. hide/show with layer masks can get really confusing. This lecture breaks it down and demystifies so you can get right to using layer masks.

In this project you'll take a soccer ball image, create a layer mask on it, then put an image of a face behind it so the face shows through. This is a fun, simple way to practice layer masks and see what they can do.

In this lecture you'll create two layer masks. One will create a blur just in the background. The other will create a black and white background, leaving only the mountain biker in color in the foreground.