Course description

Photoshop can look overwhelming the first time you open it: dozens of tools, panels everywhere and menus inside menus. This course takes you through it one step at a time, so you can edit, retouch and combine images with confidence, without losing your originals along the way.

It's a full course, not a quick tour. There are 10 sections and 50 written lessons, and every lesson ends with a hands-on task on practice images made for the course. You follow a small vintage clothing seller learning Photoshop for her shop. She straightens her first market photo, cuts clothes out onto clean white backgrounds, fixes dark and blue-tinted photos, cleans up dust honestly and builds a banner for her market stall. Every section has a worksheet, answers, a cheat sheet and ready-made guides and templates.

What you'll learn

• The basics: the workspace, zooming and undoing, pixels and resolution, file formats, cropping and resizing.
• Layers and selections: the Layers panel, transforming, blend modes, Smart Objects and every main selection tool.
• Non-destructive editing: layer masks, clipping masks and adjustment layers.
• Tone and colour: the histogram, Levels, Curves, colour casts and the Camera Raw filter.
• Retouching: healing, cloning and Content-Aware Fill, and what's honest to remove.
• Composites and text: combining images, matching light and colour, type, shapes, logos, social posts and banners.
• Output: saving, exporting for the web and social media, preparing files for print, actions, and using the generative tools responsibly.

Who it's for

Complete beginners using the desktop version of Photoshop on Windows or a Mac. It ends with a final project: three edited product photos, a banner and a social post, and a ready-to-use export pack.

What will I learn?

• Find your way around Photoshop and work safely without losing your originals
• Understand pixels, resolution, file formats, cropping and resizing
• Use layers, Smart Objects and blend modes with confidence
• Make clean selections and remove or replace a background
• Edit non-destructively with layer masks, clipping masks and adjustment layers
• Fix dark photos and colour casts with Levels, Curves and the Camera Raw filter
• Retouch dust and distractions honestly with the healing and clone tools
• Combine images, add text and logos, and export for the web, social media and print

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