This is a complete Adobe Photoshop Training Course that will take you from being a complete beginner all the way to becoming a confident, advanced, photoshop user. Finally you will understand Photoshops most powerful and useful tools whilst learning at your own pace. The key to this course is the 56 photos and project files that enable you to follow along and actively learn each skill. It's time to unleash your creative potential and stop being confused or intimidated by photoshop complexities.

Course curriculum

  • 1

    Introduction

    • Course Introduction

    • Personal Tracking Sheet download
  • 2

    Quickstart

    • Quickstart Part 1 - What is Photoshop?

    • Quickstart Part 2 - 10 things beginners want to know

    • Quickstart Part 3 - Import - edit - export

    • Settings and Workspaces
  • 3

    Importing

    • Ways to import into Photoshop

    • Import RAW image to Photoshop - Processing an image in ACR

    • Import to Panorama

    • Import to HDR Pro
  • 4

    Layers & Adjustments

    • Crop Tool

    • Layers and Layer Masks Explained

    • Adjustment Layers for photography explained

    • Brightness, contrast and exposure

    • Levels

    • Tone Curve

    • Hue and Saturation

    • Black and White Channel Mixer

    • Color Balance

    • Selective Color

    • Layer Blend Modes
  • 5

    Selections

    • Selections & Layers - What are they & how they work

    • Selections Part 1 - Lasso Magnetic Lasso

    • Selections Part 2 - Quick selection magic wand

    • Selection Part 3 - Color Range and Focus Area

    • Using masks - Mask from Selection and Refine Edge

    • Selection Mask Project - Higher Jump
  • 6

    Tools

    • Color Swatches and the Eye Dropper

    • Transform tool

    • Brush Tool

    • Healing Brush tool

    • Content aware Fill

    • Clone Stamp

    • Fill and Gradient fill

    • Dodge, Burn and Sponge

    • Text and type kit

    • Vignettes
  • 7

    Filters

    • Filter Gallery Overview

    • Adaptive Wide Angle

    • Liquify

    • Sharpen

    • Blur gallery

    • Smart Objects

    • Keyboard Shortcuts
  • 8

    Course Complete

    • Course Complete

Importing

There are many ways to import a photo into Photoshop. Learn everything from importing photos to importing multiple images as HDR’s and even Panoramas. We will work with jpegs and RAW files inside Adobe Camera Raw (ACR) as well as learn the ins and outs of star objects. The best thing is you get all the files (even HDR and Panorama files) to work along side Ed

Basic Tools

These are the absolute foundation of Photoshop and learning them correctly is the most important thing. Miss out this and the advanced tools become a lot harder. Ed will walk you through each and every tool showing you exactly what they are, how to use them and the best times to use them. These include Marquee, Crop, Move, Transform, fill tools, brush tools and more.

Working With Layers

Woking with layers really is the true power of Photoshop. In the course you will learn exactly what Photoshop layers are, how they are used and the best ways to work with them. You will learn a solid foundation of when and how to use them.

Blend Modes

Layers are not just like pages in a book they can interact differently with every layer above and below it differently thanks to the power of blend modes. Learn when the difference between darken, screen, overlay and even opacity as well as when and where these work best.

Sharpening

Like all things in photoshop the are a number of ways to do something and sharpening is no different. You will learn different sharpening techniques and when is the best time to use them. You will see how each of them works differently and what situations they are best used in. Practice along on both portraits and landscape images.

Masks

Photoshop is a powerful place that allows your creative mind to run wild and explore. Masks are something that when understood proper will be your friend at every step along your creative journey. Ed teaches you not only the basics of what masks are but also how to make them. He walks you through a wide range of tools that allow you to make selections and explains which are the best ones for certain situations.

Creative Photography

Learn everything from selective color to black and white. Learn with complete projects that you can both follow along with and also uses to practice skills from other lessons. Learn things a detailed as the tone curve, levels, hue saturation and color balance to name a few.

Advanced Masks And Layers

Here you will learn how to refine your masks by making advanced selections. Using contrast, color and focus to make a selection can help you make better masks to allow your creativity to grow to new heights.

Advance Tools

Once you have got to grips with the basics of photoshop it will be time to move on to the more advance tools. These include the Clone stamp, Content aware, Healing brush, Bodge and Burn, text tools and more.

Settings and workspaces

Learn how to customise Photoshop for your editing style making the learning process a breeze.

Shortcuts

There are what seems to be endless amounts of things you can create in Photoshop which makes it a wonderful place spend out time. However complex projects can take time and there are a lot of things you will do to nearly every project. This is where keyboard shortcuts come in. There is an entire video walking you through the most important and most used keyboard shortcuts with handy onscreen overlays showing you what keys to press. This is a photoshop lifesaver for sure.

Your Instructor

Photographer

Ed Gregory

Ed Gregory is a successful photographer, film maker and creator. He runs In Color Studios, a premium production studio in Las Vegas. Originally from the UK Ed has photographed for major brands like Blue Man Group, GooGoo Dolls, Wrangler, Crown Royal, Luxury Lv, Oliwer Lion , F45 Training and Richard MacDonald. He grew a creative business from zero to a multiple six figure company in fewer than 3 years. His stock photography business (stokpic.com) has reached over 1 million downloads and his images can be seen in advertisements the world over. As a photography instructor Ed Gregory has trained millions of people around the world through his online courses. He has been featured on some of the largest publications like Fstoppers, PetaPixel, 9to5mac, CNET and Techspot. “I get shit done”