A little skill and creativity are all it takes to make AWESOME images in Photoshop.
If you're interested in digital design, Photoshop is the one tool you need to understand-- the one that can do absolutely anything.
In this program, you'll learn the fundamentals of using Photoshop and many practical techniques that you can immediately apply to improve your design work. You'll meet Mark Lassoff, a master instructor whose been using Photoshop since version one to create impressive compositions. He'll take you step-by-step through each process and procedure to help you understand EXACTLY what Photoshop is doing and how to get outstanding results.
With each new season of Photoshop, you'll get videos, projects, and support materials to help you further master this vital tool.
Creating attractive buttons is a common task for Photoshop users. In this video, you'll learn how to create a button using Photoshop tools.
There are a number of live effects that can be applied through the layers palette. Mark will review a number of those effects in this video
Copying elements from one image to another is a common task for Photoshop users. You'll learn a couple of ways of completing this task in this video.
Removing people from the backgrounds in Photoshop is something many users have to do frequently. Mark will show you the steps required to successfully extract people from the background of an image.
There are times when it's necessary to remove the background entirely from an image, leaving just the image subject. Mark will demonstrate how to remove backgrounds in this video.
A commonly used effect is to place text behind a person in an image. You see this effect used frequently on magazine covers and in advertising. Mark will show you how to do this using selection in Photoshop.
You will learn how to use selections and the layer palette to make it appear like someone is holding something in Photoshop.
Masks allow you to select part of an image and mask it so it does not appear. You will learn how to create masks in this video.
Download these files to complete Lab 03.
Download these files to complete the corrective and creative color adjustments lab exercise.
Practice cropping and make some creative crops in this lab. Download the materials and PDF here.