Photoshop CC Fundamentals
From photo editing and compositing to digital painting, animation, UX and graphic design — you can do it all in Photoshop. This course gives you the skills you need to be productive and to have a strong foundational knowledge of Photoshop CC 2021.
What you'll learn
Learn how to harness the power of Adobe Photoshop CC 2021 to create superior images and artwork. We'll teach you how to perform key image editing tasks, including retouching, sharpening, and color correction. In the course you'll see how to effectively work with layers, blend modes, masks, and so much more. This course is the first in a series designed to help you master one of the world's most popular software applications. Software required: Photoshop CC 2021
Table of contents
- Version Check 0m
- The Welcome Screen 3m
- Creating New Documents 5m
- Mac and Windows Differences 3m
- Artboards 4m
- Introducing Panels 4m
- Moving and Customizing Panels 4m
- Customize Panels and the Toolbar 7m
- Keyboard Shortcuts and Menu Commands 6m
- Using Workspaces 4m
- Interface Shading Options 2m
- Screen Modes 2m
- Working with Multiple Documents 3m
- Tab Preferences 4m
- Document Navigation 5m
- Preferences Dialog Box 5m
- Selection Tool Overview 8m
- Practical Marquee Selection 5m
- Feather a Selection 4m
- Copy and Paste 4m
- Scaling the Image 5m
- Modifying Selections 9m
- Quick Selection and Magic Wand Tools 7m
- Select Subject 3m
- Select and Mask Workspace 8m
- Quick Mask Mode 6m
- Color Range Command 7m
- Focus Area 6m
- Saving Selections 4m
- Undo and Redo 5m
- Background Layer 4m
- Opening Images to Layers 3m
- Layer Basics 6m
- Selecting Layers 5m
- Layer Panel Options 2m
- Locking Layers 4m
- Distribute and Align Layers 2m
- Layer Groups 4m
- Layer Opacity Options 3m
- Understanding Blend Modes 6m
- Layer Mask Basics 7m
- Gradient Layer Masks 2m
- Layer Styles 3m
- Flatten Layers 3m
Course FAQ
You will learn the foundational tools, techniques, and principles to successfully create within Photoshop. Some of the concepts in this course include:
- Creating a document
- File types and digital imaging concepts
- Making selections and basic compositing
- Understanding layers and masks
- Cropping transforming and warping images
- Photo retouching
- Much more
Nope! This is an introductory course geared completely towards beginners. It assumes no prior knowledge of or experience with Photoshop.
This may go without saying, but you will need to have Photoshop in order to practice and apply the concepts outlined in this course. The modules will be based off of Photoshop CC 2018, but most of the concepts will still apply if you have an older or newer version.
This course will be beneficial to anyone involved in design, art, photography, or videography in any capacity. Even for the casual creator, photoshop is a fundamental software to know how to use.
No, Photoshop is not that hard to learn. There is an initial learning curve, but once you get familiar with the tools and nail down the basics, you'll find Photoshop easy to use.
There are a vast amount of jobs that use Photoshop. Some of the most prominent are:
- Graphic Designer
- Photographer
- Web Developer
- Freelance Designer
- Front End Developer
- Production Artist
- Web Designer
- And much more.
About the author
Matthew Pizzi is currently the Director of Product, Academy at Contentstack, where he spearheads the development of learning experiences that enhances how customers engage with Contentstack’s industry-leading composable CMS. His expertise in ed-tech leadership started by founding Train Simple, a leader in education for Adobe products and web technologies. Following the acquisition of Train Simple by Pluralsight in 2016, Matt played a pivotal role in overseeing key domains to further skills devel... more