Online Class: Adobe Photoshop 101

Course Lessons

• Lesson 1: Introduction to Adobe Photoshop

  Adobe's Photoshop program has become a mainstay with graphics designers, professional photographers, and even hobbyists to edit graphics as well as create and manipulate images. In this first lesson we will introduce and review these popular program featu

• Lesson 2: Getting Started using Photoshop

  Now that you've learned your way around the Photoshop interface a little bit, we're going to jump right in and start teaching you how to use the program.

• Lesson 3: Working with Images

  This lesson will be one of the most important lessons in this course because you're going to start to learn how to work with images.

• Lesson 4: Resizing and Cropping Images

  In this lesson we will discuss the intricacies of pixel dimensions , image resolution and how to use the resizing and cropping tools.

• Lesson 5: Working with Basic Selections

  Photoshop CS6 gives you several tools that allow you to make selections. We're going to cover the basic tools in this lesson.

• Lesson 6: Layers

  Layers are simply images or effects laid on top of other images or effects.

• Lesson 7: Painting in Photoshop

  Photoshop is much more than an image editing program. It's also one of the best paint programs that you'll ever use. When you combine the selection tools we learned about last lesson with the paint tools, changing and editing colors becomes easier than yo

• Lesson 8: Photo Retouching

  Photoshop gives you the tools you need to take your worst looking photo and make it look good.

• Lesson 9: Color Correction

  It's important that you consider what color mode you use in your images to insure the most consistency in colors. This lesson will go into further detail about color modes and color spaces.

• Lesson 10: Using Masks And The Quick Mask Mode

  Masks are basically just areas that you can isolate from the rest of an image to protect it from editing.

• Lesson 11: Working With The Pen Tool

  This lesson will focus on how to use the pen tool

• Lesson 12: Creating Special Effects

  The ability to add special effects to your photos is one of the most enjoyable features of Photoshop. With a few clicks of the mouse, you can transform an ordinary family photo into a work of art.

• Lesson 13: Printing And Exporting Your Work

  It seems like there are a dozen different ways to present your photographs. In this final lesson will discuss how to print and export your final masterpiece.