Introduction to Photoshop CC

In this lesson, you'll learn how to open and close multiple files, as well as view and navigate an image. Then you'll explore a variety of ways you can crop and fill an image—getting to experiment with Adobe's impressive artificial intelligence (AI) tool, Generative Expand! You'll also discover the crucial difference between Save and Save As and choose just the right file format in which to save your work. Finally, you'll learn how to safely exit Photoshop.

Do you know the difference between resolution and size and how they relate with pixel dimensions? By the end of this lesson, you definitely will! You'll learn all about resolution, resizing, and resampling. You'll discover the difference between screen resolution and print resolution and how the purpose of your graphics plays a role in which one you choose. And you'll be able to change the canvas size for your images.

In this lesson, you'll explore the wonders of working with layers. You'll find out what makes them so incredibly useful, discover the many types of layers you can work with, and get to know the Layers panel. You'll see how to add, delete, and duplicate layers, as well as change their opacity and blending modes. And crucially, you'll learn how to organize your layers by reordering, linking, merging, flattening, and grouping them.

How do you achieve good image composition? Find out in this lesson, where you'll discover six vital principles that you'll then put to work as you create a flyer. You'll learn how to bring images into a composition—including other file types like vector images—link objects, and see what Smart Objects can do. You'll also discover how to set and use guides to help place and align your objects.

In this lesson, you'll continue working with layers but take them to the next level! You'll work with multilayer documents and practice different methods of image placement. Then, to better fit these objects into the scene, you'll learn about aligning, scaling, rotating, distorting, warping, and more.

Want to make the color of your images pop? Then you need to know about image adjustments. Before you go wild, though, you also need to understand the crucial difference between destructive and nondestructive editing. In this lesson, you'll learn how to adjust brightness and contrast, levels and exposure, and which methods of making these adjustments are nondestructive and destructive. The adjustment effects are kind of like what image filters do on a smartphone—but with much more control.

In this lesson, you'll learn how to do more advanced color adjustments with Vibrance, Hue, and Saturation. You'll also see how to convert images from color to black and white. Then, you'll explore how to use blending modes to make your layers blend elegantly together, and you'll get to experiment with some surrealistic effects! Finally, you'll get to practice with the creative filters in Photoshop's Filter Gallery, as well as utilize the very important Smart Filter. Get ready for a fun lesson!

Need to clear up a few blemishes on a headshot? Or remove unwanted telephone wires from a landscape? This lesson introduces you to the tools used in photo retouching. You'll explore how to sharpen an image as well as blur some areas. Blurring lets you create a depth of field or add a warm vignette to an image. You'll also learn how to easily retouch imperfections and blemishes with the Spot Healing Brush, Healing Brush, and Clone Stamp tools.

Time is not kind to old photographs. But thankfully, Photoshop is known for its power to enhance damaged photos as well as color-correct timeworn, faded images. If being able to digitize and restore your old family photos is essential to passing down your heritage, this lesson is for you! You'll learn how to remove things like dust and scratches, crop out borders or old photo album corner mounts, restore color, remove unwanted elements, and much more. This lesson is all about restoring some kindness to those old photos.

One of the most basic skills you need in Photoshop is the ability to select areas of an image, sometimes right down to the pixel, to adjust or fine-tune it. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use Photoshop's various selection tools to create convincing image composites. You'll explore the different ways to make selections, as well as determine how to choose the right tool for the job. Next, you'll see some ways to achieve a convincing composite. Then the action begins as you get to practice with tools for making shaped-based selections and pixel-based selections. You'll be impressed with all you can do!

Want to create an invitation or promote an event? This lesson shows you how to apply typography with images to create effective designs. You'll start off by getting down the basics of typography and looking at Photoshop's tools for formatting text. Next, you'll see how to apply guides and layer styles to set up the postcard you'll create in this lesson. Then you'll discover how to set and style text, add type to a plain text box or wrap it to a custom shape, and create stylized text by typing on a path or warping it. This lesson will introduce you to a world of limitless type effects!