Learn Photoshop: Beginner to Advanced Masterclass

Hello dear students, welcome to Photoshop essential class. If you are planning to learn adobe photoshop for graphics design and if you never opened photoshop before or if you are absolute newbie in that case, this is the perfect class for you, because we will learn photoshop from the very beginning. So, this is totally a beginner level and from beginning level you will learn till to advanced level. So, if you are absolute newbie and if you are planning to learn photoshop from the beginning, this is a perfect class for you. So, let's take a look what you will learn from this class. You will learn about the interface of photoshop, you will learn about the menu and tools, layers, vibrance and saturation, hue and saturation, how to change color of the image using hue and saturation and how to change a specific color by using hue and saturation as well as you will learn about all the tools inside the adjustment panel or adjustment tab. So, once you will learn about the use of adjustment tools, you will be able to make beautiful images because most of the tools are associated with the adjustments tabs. So, we will cover all the tools of adjustments tab. You will learn about the gradient, you will learn about the stroke, baffle and emboss. You will learn about the contents hour tool. This is a magical tool of photoshop. You will learn about the photo blur, you will learn about the drop shadow, you will learn about the spot healing from the skin and many more lesson you will learn from this class. So, this is a project based class. So, what you will learn from the lesson, you will have an opportunity to practice along with the classes and for helping you, I have given the resource file along with this class. So, you can get the materials when you will start practicing and during learning if you face any issue, you just have to knock me for your support. You just have to ask me the question where you start and I'm always there for you to help you out. So, what are you waiting for? I'm expecting you to have you in Hello dear students, welcome to the beginning lesson of Adobe Photoshop and in this lesson, we are going to learn about the interface of Photoshop. So, let's start from the beginning. So, you can see in my screen that I have opened the latest version of Photoshop and I hope you already have the Photoshop installed on your computer and you can see that this is our opening interface. So, Photoshop works in two ways. You can create a new document and then you can start editing with the document or you can you can open an existing image or existing task that you already work with the Photoshop and therefore extension is effect. So, if you have an existing task that is completed by the Photoshop software, you can open it from the opening interface or you can open an image for starting editing or you can create a new document then you can start editing. So, if you want to create from the very beginning or from the root in that case, you have to create a new file or if you want to edit any image directly in that case, you have to use this open option. So, I'm going to show you in both ways. So, let's start with the new file option. Suppose you are going to create a design from the beginning, therefore you have to click the new file option. So, let me click in this new file option and then a pop-up will appear. This is called a pop-up and this is really an amazing feature of Photoshop because in this pop-up, Photoshop makes your task more easier than before. If you compare between the oldest version of Photoshop, in there you not had the presets for the creating the document but in the latest version, they already given number of preset. You can see here at top of the pop-up like the recent, saved, photo, print, art and illustration, web, mobile, film and video. These are tabs and these tabs are for presets. So, let me show you with the default Photoshop size. So, this is a preset for creating a document. That means in this preset, there are different type of height and width, resolution, orientation, color mode, background content are provided with the preset and different type of size, orientation, background content, resolution. So, if you consider the default Photoshop size document, this is our default Photoshop size and here is the value. So, you can see here that the width of this default Photoshop size document is 7 inches and you can see here we have a field this called the inches and height is 5 inches and in orientation you can see here we have two things landscape and vertical. So, this is the default orientation but if you need to change, you can change the orientation from here. If you need the landscape or if you need the vertical, you can assign it from the from this orientation option. Okay and here is the resolution and this is the default Photoshop size. That's why it's provided with the inches but if you need, if you need in pixel, in that case, you can do it manually. So, for changing the width and height, here is the inches option and instead of inches, you can use these pixels. There is a centimeter, millimeter, points and picas but this is a default Photoshop size. That's why I'm just keeping these things. Okay, the next thing is background content. What will be the document background colors? You can see this is the default color that is white but if you need to put some different color or some kind of transparent background, you can have the option. So, therefore, you have to click in here and from here you can select the background color. So, you can see that right now we have the white background color but instead of white, if you need to use the black one, you can use the black one. If you need the background specific color, you can also set these things from here. If you need the transparent, transparent background, you can have this one. Okay, so this is just a preset settings. Okay, now let me go to the photo tab and once you will click the photo tab, you will have different type of preset and this all the presets are relevant with photo editing. So, you can see that we have another landscape. This is our default Photoshop size preset and here is called the landscape and you can see the size of this landscape is called three by two which is three inches and height is two inches. Okay, and this all these things are in landscape orientation but if you need portrait orientation, in that case, you can have these presets. So, let me select this one and you can see here the width is five inches and height is seven inches and once you select this five by seven inches, the orientation is changing. This is the landscape orientation. When I'm selecting this one, the orientation is changing here and when I'm using this portrait, the orientation is changing in here. Okay, so different presets have different sizes. Now, let's move to the print tab. Suppose you were going to write an application or you were going to design a tabloid or you were going to making some kind of legal document, all these things are available in here. So, this is the default size for later and the size of this preset later is 8.5 inches for width and 11 inches for height and orientation is portrait. So, this is the tabloid preset and you can see here height is bigger than the later and height is 17 inches and width is 11 inches. So, let me show you a different preset like this A3. This A3 preset are counted with the millimeters. So, you can see here that width counted for this A3 preset is 297 millimeter and height is 420 millimeter and the orientation is portrait. So, I hope you got the idea. Now, let's move to the art and illustration tab and this is really important because in the art and illustration tab most of the time inches and pixels are widely used. So, you can see here that we have 1000 pixel grids. This is a preset and you can see 1000 pixel for width and 1000 pixel for height. That means a square shape will be created and you can see the background content as well as white for every preset. So, if you want to create some kind of postcard in that case you can use this postcard preset and this is a preset for default postcard and this postcard preset are used by the inches. So, 4 inches in width and 6 inches in height. But if you are considering to create a poster instead of postcard you have to know the difference between postcard and the poster. So, if you are looking to create some kind of printable poster in that case you can use this preset and this poster are bigger in size than postcard. So, the postcard is 4 inches in width and 6 inches in height and the poster is 18 inches in width and 24 inches in height. So, this poster is much bigger than this postcard. So, I hope you got the idea. Now, let's move to the web tab. So, when you will design for the website then you have to follow this web tab and in this web tab you will have different type of presets and all these presets are relevant with the web. So, you can see here some presets like MacBook Pro, like iMac, like websites minimum, medium, large and web most common presets. So, let me show you with the web most common preset. So, this is a preset for designing for the elements or for some kind of styles for the website. So, what is the width? Width is 1366 pixels in width and 768 pixels in height and orientation is landscape. Basically, most of the web presets are oriented with the landscape orientation. Okay, so if you consider that you will create a large design for website you can consider this web large preset and these presets are widely using. It's one of the popular presets nowadays. So, what is the size? The width is 1920 pixels and height is 1080 pixels. This is called 1080 pixels in size of web. So, let's move to the mobile tab. Inside this mobile tab you will have lots of presets. Suppose you need to design some kind of styles for iPhone you will have different type of presets in here. If you need to design or styling some beginning styles for the android you can have this preset. If you need to work for the smartwatch this is one. If you need to design for some kind of microsoft surface here is the presets. So, you can see the preset of microsoft surface that's about 2160 pixels in width and 1440 pixels in height and the orientation is landscape. So, there are different type of presets are available and all these presets are relevant with the smartphone or the mobile device. And you can see we have the final tab that's called the film and video. So, if you want to work with the film types or video types actually this is not for video editing this is for the designing. So, if you want to design for specific for some kind of videos like you can create some of the banner for the videos some kind of thumbnail for the videos. So, the video related design when it will create you can consider this film and video tab and you can see there are lots of presets are available like this is one of the default preset and this one of the most widely using nowadays for a video and film purpose and the preset size is 1920 pixel in width and 1080 pixel in height and the orientation is landscape. But if you need to if you need to create a design for 2k you can consider this 2k preset and you can see here the 2k preset size counted with the pixels and the size is 2048 pixel for width and 1080 pixel for height and the orientation is landscape. So, when it will work with 4k 8k you can pick this preset like this is UHDTV that means ultra HDTV and this is counted as the 4k preset and here is the size 3840 pixel for width and 2160 pixel for height. So, you can consider this preset as a large document size and this one is much bigger than this one because you can consider 4096 pixel in width and 2160 pixel in height. And let's consider let's consider for the 8k resolution let me select this one and you can see here that 8k resolution have much bigger document size than 4k and you can you can see here this 7680 pixel in width and 4320 pixel for height and if you are using this kind of preset please make sure that you have a good configuration computer that you are using because when you will use this type of large size document and when you will start editing your computer must have some good configuration RAM processor as well as GPU. Okay, so we will learn all the preset so I'm going to use I'm going to use this default photoshop size but if you need to put or if you need to create a custom design you just have to put the value in here you just have to type the value and you have to declare what will be the width parameter inches or pixels or centimeter whatever you need you can select it from here for creating some kind of manual document and here is the width field here is the height field here is the resolution field and here is all the things for background content and one more things I need to tell you that is the color mode. So, basically RGB red green and blue color this is a standard as well as there are some more styles like CMYK grayscale bitmap lab color all these things are available in here. So, most of the times RGB color is using commonly I'm going to I'm going to tell you the difference between the grayscale RGB color all the difference I'm going to tell you in the color lesson. So, the default color mode is about RGB color so you can put these things in here so once everything is done you just have to select it and then you have to click create so you can see now that we have created the document and this is our interface and this is our interface so let me introduce with the interfaces in here so at top we got the menu bar all these things are the menu this call all these menus at right side we got some tabs like the properties tab this call the layer tabs and we got the color tabs in right side and in left side we have number of tools so these tools are essential when it will work in photoshop so these are the toolbar these are the menu bar and at right side we got different type of color tab properties tab layer tab or you can consider this layer panel properties panel color panel so this is the interface of the photoshop and we learned about how to create the document and how to run the photoshop with the created document and our next lesson we are going to be introduced to with the menu as well as the tools and till then I'm going to take a break and I'm going to see you in our next lesson. Hello dear students welcome once again and now we are going to learn about the menu and the tools so you can see here in our photoshop at top left side we got the menu this called a menu bar and at left side this called a toolbar so there are lots of tools are available and every tools have different type of uses and at top we got the menus so you can see here this is the file menu edit menu lots of menus are here and we are going to be introduced to about the menu and the toolbar but in some tools and in some menus we have to skip in this lesson because some tools have a wide range of uses therefore we have to make sure that we are learning properly and in this lesson we may not able to completely teach you about the tools therefore some tools will be skipped in this lesson and we will create a different lesson for learning about the use of the tools okay so let's let's start learning tool first so you can see here at first we got the move tool and this move tool is using for moving an image or any selection or any layer so therefore we have to we have to open an image in here i already given a resource file along with this curriculum and lessons so you must have to download that resource file and then you will have all the relevant image that we will use for learning and for opening for opening the image let me click the file menu here is the file menu and from there i have to click this open option for opening my resource file and i'm going to open an image so this is my resource file and from here i want to i want to use this pixels amma this rose flowers so you just have to select it and then you have to click open okay you can see here you can see here that the beautiful flower is opened in here and one more things i need to tell you that is when i used that open option we created this untitled one this document in our last lesson but when i used open option then this flower is opened in a new tab that means this flower is not opened in this tab so this is the open option so you can move you can move this flower in here by drag and drop option and if you want to if you want to place that same image from the resource file in this present tab then how it will do that you need to know this first because this is really important so i'm closing this image so right now i don't have any flower but i don't want to open this red rose in a new tab i want to open that same flower or i want to place that same flower in this present tab or inside this untitled one document and therefore we have to use this place embedded option from the file menu so here is the file menu and then you will get this place embedded option so let me click in this place embedded option then the pop-up will appear and inside inside your resource file you just have to select this pixels Anna this image and then you have to click place okay now you can see now you can see that the flower placed properly inside the same document and it's not it's not opened in a new document and this is what i'm looking for so i hope you got the difference between this file menu and open option and place embedded option if you use this open option your image will be opened in a new tab if you use this place embedded option then the object or image or the element will be placed inside the present document so this is the difference between open and place embedded okay so what do we got we got the image in here and you can see this image is not placed properly in here because still we have not committed the perform so for committing perform you can press enter button from your keyboard or you can click in the stick mark and this tick mark is using for committing transfer options i'm clicking the stick mark and now it's placed properly okay so the tools we are talking about that's the move tool and the shortcut key for the move tool is v v for violin so what is the use of move tool so you can see here at top we have at top we have some empty spaces so if you want to place this flower at top to cover the empty space then you have to use this move tool so you just have to use your mouse you have to press left button of your mouse it's called some kind of drag and drop method you have to press and hold the left button from your mouse then you have to move your mouse according to your needs so now you can see that the image is placed at top and the white space is covered so now if you want to move this flower at bottom in that case you have to follow the same process so using this move tool you can move the image at bottom if you need to if you need to place this image outside of the document then you can do that also you have to press and hold the mouse and then you can move anywhere inside your document so you can keep in here you can keep in here you can keep in here you can keep in here okay so i hope you got the idea about the use of move tool now we are going to learn about a rectangular mercury tool this is our second tool okay so if you need to make any selection then you have to use the rectangular mercury tool and the shortcut key is m m for manila suppose you need to make a selection inside the image then you can use this mercury tool this is called the mercury tool actually and now we are using that rectangle shape so if you use the rectangle shape you will have the rectangle selection so you can see that i make a selection in here but instead of rectangle shape if you want to select a round shape in that case you have to right click with your mouse in here then you will have the more option like elliptical mercury tool single row mercury tool a single column mercury tool so as i was saying for round shape you can use this elliptical mercury then you will have a circle selection so this is not a shape this is not any line this is just a selection if you need to if you need to make a selection for any specific area for coloring or for some kind of editing in that case you have to use this rectangular mercury tool elliptical so this is just for selecting so i hope you got the idea okay now we got lesser tool so you can see here this is our lesser tool and the shortcut key is l l for lion so with the elliptical mercury tool we are able to make a just a circle selection with the rectangular mercury tool we are able to make a selection just a mercury i mean rectangular mercury shape but what you will do if you need to make a selection for the every leaves or the petals of flower in that case how you will do that you cannot make a perfect selection of the petals of the rose by using this rectangular mercury mercury tool suppose you need to make a selection for these petals so when i used this mercury tool i got some extra area selected but if you need to make a perfect selection in that case you have to use this laser tool so let me use this laser tool and with the laser tool you can you can make any selection as you want by using your mouse so in every angle you are able to make a selection or in every angle you are able to move your mouses that's not possible with a rectangular mercury tool or elliptical mercury tool