Photoshop 2025 Essential Training

12h 40mBeginner2024-11-13

Authors

Julieanne Kost

Principal Evangelist at Adobe Systems

Course details

Whether you’re an experienced creative professional or someone who has just recently purchased a camera, learning how to use Photoshop efficiently and effectively is the best investment you can make to get the most out of your pixels. Photoshop is a deep, complex, and at times, intimidating product. In Photoshop 2025 Essential Training, Julieanne Kost filters out the noise and complexity for you so that you’ll end up empowered and able to quickly get the image results you want. This course gets you up to speed with the Photoshop interface and introduces the core features and concepts youll use whether youre a photographer or designer.

Skills covered

Image EditingPhotoshopPhotographyEssential TrainingAdobe

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Welcome to Photoshop essential training

1. Opening Files

02 - Opening files in Photoshop
03 - Opening files from Adobe Bridge
04 - Opening files from Lightroom Classic
05 - Opening files from Lightroom
06 - Editing in Camera Raw or Lightroom versus Photoshop

2. Documents and Navigation

07 - A tour of the Photoshop interface
08 - Working with multiple documents
09 - Panning and zooming documents

3. Customizing the Photoshop Interface

10 - Arranging the panels you use most often
11 - Customizing the toolbar
12 - Modifying keyboard shortcuts to boost productivity

4. Digital Image Essentials

13 - Understanding file formats
14 - Mastering bit depth and color mode
15 - Choosing a color space
16 - Making sense of document size
17 - Using Image Size to change document dimensions
18 - Discover flexible editing using the History panel
19 - Saving and exporting documents

5. Adobe Camera Raw

20 - A tour of the Camera Raw interface
21 - Removing lens distortions and correcting perspective
22 - Cropping and expanding a photo with Generative Expand (beta)
23 - Working with profiles and presets
24 - Enhancing white balance, tone, and contrast
25 - Making adjustments to colors
26 - Removing distracting elements
27 - Using the masking tools to adjust a portion of an image
28 - Using masking to retouch portraits
29 - B W conversions, color toning, and snapshots
30 - Creating and saving presets
31 - Removing noise and adding Lens Blur
32 - Saving and opening files into Photoshop

6. Cropping, Straightening, and Adjusting Canvas Size

33 - Using the Crop tool
34 - Straightening a crooked image
35 - Crop and change the image size in one step
36 - Expanding the canvas size

7. Layers

37 - Exploring layer basics
38 - Loading, selecting, aligning, and distributing layers
39 - Organizing layers using layer groups
40 - Merging and flattening layers
41 - Quickly exporting layers and groups

8. Color and Brush Essentials

42 - Color basics
43 - Brush basics
44 - The Brushes and Brush Settings panels
45 - Creating custom brushes and symmetrical brush strokes

9. Working with Layer Masks and Clipping Masks

46 - Layer mask essentials
47 - Creating clipping masks with layers

10. Making Selections

48 - The Marquee and Lasso tools
49 - Making soft edged selections
50 - Using the Object Select and Selection Brush tools
51 - Making selections based on color
52 - Transforming selections and removing halos
53 - Selecting and replacing skies

11. Retouching and Removing Distracting Elements

54 - Retouching with the Healing, Patch, and Clone tools
55 - Removing distracting elements with the Remove tool
56 - The magic of Generative Fill
57 - Using Generative Fill on large documents
58 - Seamlessly blend photos using Generative Fill
59 - Transform without distorting with Content-Aware Scale and Move

12. Generative AI

60 - Generate image essentials
61 - Generating elements and replacing backgrounds
62 - Generative Workspace (beta)

13. Adjustment Layer Essentials

63 - Introducing adjustment layers
64 - Adjusting color and tone with Levels and Curves
65 - Changing vibrance, hue, saturation, and color balance
66 - Converting to B&W and color toning with Gradient Maps
67 - Applying adjustment layers to multiple layers

14. Blend Mode Essentials

68 - Blend mode basics
69 - Using Multiply, Screen, Overlay, and Soft Light
70 - Applying blend modes to adjustment layers
71 - Applying blend modes to multiple layers and groups

15. Smart Object Essentials

72 - Creating and editing Smart Objects
73 - Opening RAW images as Smart Objects
74 - Replacing the contents of a Smart Object
75 - Linked vs. embedded Smart Object

16. Essential Transformation

76 - Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers using Free Transform
77 - Removing perspective distortion using Camera Raw
78 - Warping images
79 - Using Liquify to reshape an image
80 - Using Vanishing Point to paste in perspective
81 - Using Smart Objects to transform multiple layers as one

17. Color, Gradient, and Pattern Fill Layers

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

18. Essential Filters

85 - Filter essentials
86 - Applying filters nondestructively with Smart Filters
87 - Sharpening images
88 - Creative blurring effects
89 - AI-assisted (Neural) filters
90 - Creating painterly effects using Filter Gallery
91 - Applying Camera Raw as a filter

19. Shape Layers

92 - Using the Shape tools
93 - Modify, duplicate, and use custom shapes
94 - Creating, saving, and masking images to shapes
95 - Duplicating shapes as Smart Objects

20. The Pen Tools

96 - The Curvature Pen tool
97 - Pen tool basics
98 - Drawing curves with the Pen tool
99 - Drawing complex paths
100 - Pen skills in practice

21. Essential Layer Styles

101 - Applying layer effects and styles
102 - Creative layer effects

22. Type Essentials

103 - Exploring headline (point) type
104 - Using leading, kerning, and tracking
105 - Working with paragraph (area) type

23. Working with Libraries

106 - Library panel essentials
107 - Capture patterns, colors, gradients, type attributes, and shapes from an image
108 - Sharing Libraries
109 - Working with Adobe Stock