Photoshop 2024 Essential Training

Dive into the core features, tools, and techniques that all Photoshop users need to know to quickly build a solid foundation in photo editing and design.

Introduction

• Welcome to Photoshop Essential Training

1. Opening Files

• Opening files in Photoshop
• Opening files from Adobe Bridge
• Opening files from Lightroom Classic
• Opening files from Lightroom
• Editing in Camera Raw and Lightroom versus Photoshop

2. Documents and Navigation

• A tour of the Photoshop interface
• Working with multiple documents
• Panning and zooming documents

3. Customizing the Photoshop Interface

• Arranging the panels you use most often
• Customizing the Toolbar
• Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity

4. Digital Image Essentials

• Understanding file formats
• Mastering bit depth and color mode
• Choosing a color space
• Making sense of document size
• Using image size to change document dimensions
• Discover flexible editing using the History panel
• Saving and exporting documents

5. Adobe Camera Raw

• A tour of the Camera Raw interface
• Removing distortions and cropping photos
• Working with profiles and presets
• Enhancing contrast, color, and tone
• Removing distracting elements
• Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
• Using masking to retouch portraits
• B/W conversions, color toning, and snapshots
• Removing noise and adding Lens Blur
• Saving and opening files in Photoshop

6. Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size

• Using the Crop tool
• Straightening a crooked image
• Crop and change image size in one step
• Increasing canvas size

7. Layers

• Exploring layer basics
• Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
• Working with layer groups and the Frame tool
• Merging and flattening layers
• Quickly exporting layers and groups

8. Color and Brush Essentials

• Color basics
• Brush basics
• The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
• Creating custom brushes and symmetrical paint strokes

9. Working with Layer Masks

• Layer mask essentials
• Using clipping masks to hide and show layers

10. Making Selections

• Using the Marquee and Lasso tools
• Making soft-edged selections
• Using the Object Select tool
• Making selections based on color
• Transforming selections and removing halos
• Selecting and replacing skies

11. Local Pixel Editing and Retouching

• Removing distracting elements with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools
• Removing objects using Content-Aware and Generative Fill
• Creating elements using Generative Fill and Firefly
• Transform without distorting using Content Aware Scale and Move

12. Adjustment Layer Essentials

• Introducing adjustment layers
• Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
• Changing colors using Vibrance, Hue/Saturation, and Color Balance
• Converting to B&W and color toning with Gradient Maps
• Applying Adjustment Layers to multiple layers

13. Blend Mode Essentials

• Blend Mode basics
• Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
• Applying blend modes to adjustment layers
• Applying blend modes to multiple layers and groups

14. Smart Object Essentials

• Creating and editing Smart Objects
• Opening raw images as Smart Objects
• Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
• Linked vs. embedded Smart Objects

15. Essential Transformation

• Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
• Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw
• Warping images
• Using Liquify to reshape an image
• Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
• Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers into one

16. Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill Layers

• Using Fill Layers to create a hand-painted look
• Using gradients to add color effects
• Creating and applying custom pattern fill layers

17. Essential Filters

• Filter essentials
• Applying filters non-destructively with Smart Filters
• Sharpening images
• Creative blurring effects
• AI-assisted (Neural) Filters
• Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
• Applying Camera Raw as a filter

18. Shape Layers

• Using the Shape tools
• Modify, duplicate, and use custom shapes
• Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
• Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects

19. The Pen Tools

• The Curvature Pen tool
• Pen tool basics
• Drawing curves with the Pen tool
• Drawing complex paths
• Pen skills in practice

20. Essential Layer Styles

• Applying layer effects and styles
• Creative layer effects

21. Type Essentials

• Exploring headline (point) type
• Using leading, kerning, and tracking
• Working with paragraph (area) type

22. Working with Libraries

• Library panel essentials
• Capture patterns, colors, gradients, type attributes, and shapes from an image
• Sharing Libraries
• Working with Adobe Stock

23. Artboards

• Creating Artboards
• Adding content to Artboards
• Tips for working with Artboards
• Saving and exporting Artboards

24. Animating Images

• Creating animated GIFs
• Creating cinemagraphs

25. Sharing Images

• Sharing documents for review
• Using Image Processor to batch resize and save files
• Exporting multiple images to a single document

Conclusion

• Next steps