Adobe photoshop CC 2026

Adobe Photoshop Essentials course will teach you Photoshop Retouching as well as Photoshop for graphic design.

What You Will learn

• You will create social media post images for Facebook, Instagram, Twitter.
• You will be able to mask anything… including the dreaded hair!
• Clearcut images.
• Create amazing typography.
• You will create popular visual styles.
• You will create distorted images.
• You will create graphics from scratch.
• You will retouch photographs like a professional.
• You will create a postcard.
• Create posters.
• Create advertising.
• Resize Images.
• Build a flyer.
• Change the color or images.
• Fix the colors in photographs
• You will change eye & hair colors.
• You will put a storm in a tea cup.
• You will create text that looks like stone.
• You will create text that wraps around a woman.
• You will build a multipage banner advertising project.
• You will create more background in an image from thin air.
• You will remove people from images.
• You will remove graffiti from a wall.
• You will clear cut images of people, shoes & other products.
• You will create realistic shadows
• You will create text the wraps around colored smoke.
• You will build duotone images like the Spotify effect
• You will create images with an anaglyph effect
• You’ll turn your images into realistic oil paintings
• You’ll know how to add halftone effects to your images.
• You will bend images to reveal background images.
• You retouch an overweight person to make the appear slim.
• You’ll build spray paint style graffiti using brushes.
• You’ll make a galaxy appear out of a mans head.
• Create paper cut effects inside of a font.
• Build text with 3D paint dripping from it.
• You’ll retouch a face to move pimples & freckles.
• You’ll remove dust & scratches from an old photograph.
• Change yellow teeth to white teeth.

Course Outlines

Layers

• How to Use Layers in Adobe Photoshop
• Basic navigation & how to combine images in Photoshop

Color & Adjustment Layers

• How to fix an image using levels in Photoshop CC
• How to enhance colors in Photoshop using vibrance
• How to change the color of something in Photoshop using Hue
• How to change just one color in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to make an image black & white in Photoshop CC
• How to add a gradient to an image & text in Photoshop
• What are Adjustment Presets in Photoshop

Shapes

• Creating a specific sized document Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to draw star square circle shape in Photoshop CC
• Stealing Colors & Adobe Color Themes

Text

• How to create text in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to warp text in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to get text to follow a line or circle in Photoshop

Layer Styles

• How to add a line around the outside of type in Photoshop
• How to a bevel or emboss to text in Photoshop CC
• How to add a drop shadow to text in Photoshop CC
• Presenting your Photoshop work for your portfolio

Cropping

• How to crop an image in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to crop an image for a frame in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to straighten the horizon line using Photoshop CC

Selections & Masking

• How to copy from one image to another in Photoshop CC
• How to crop images inside of text
• How to remove the background in Adobe Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Quick Select Tool
• How to put text behind a person in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to create a layer mask in Adobe Photoshop CC
• Class project – Cut a person out & put them into another image in Photoshop
• 31: Cut a person out of 1 image and place them into another image convincingly.
• How to blend fade one image into another in Photoshop CC
• How to weave text in and out of a Photoshop image
• 33: Weaving in & out
• How to select hair in Adobe Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Selecting hair
• How to select things with straight edges in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to get text to interact with ink & plants in Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Text & Image Interaction

Filters

• How to add filters & effects in Adobe Photoshop
• How to turn an image into a painting in Adobe Photoshop
• Class Project – Oil Painting
• 41: Oil Painting
• How to create the Dotted Halftone Poster Effect in Photoshop
• Class exercise – Halftone
• How to fake realistic motion blur in Adobe Photoshop CC
• The Lens Flare right of passage in Adobe Photoshop

Smart Objects

• What is a smart object in Adobe Photoshop CC

Transform & Distort

• How to bend a logo onto an image realistically in Photoshop
• How to make a sky peeling like fabric revealing background in Photoshop
• Class Project – Peeling Sky
• How to shrink body parts in Adobe Photoshop CC using liquify
• How to create dripping paint text effect in Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Drippy Paint Text

Retouching

• How to remove red eye from photographs in Photoshop
• How to retouch skin in Adobe Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Retouching
• Enhancing eyes in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to fix teeth in Adobe Photoshop CC

Blending Modes

• How to instantly remove the white background of a logo in Photoshop
• Using blending modes as color accents in Photoshop
• How to put images inside a bottle using Photoshop
• Class Project – Boat in a bottle

Visual Styles

• How to create the spotify Duotone effect in adobe Photoshop
• Class Project – Duotones
• Duotones
• How to create the 3D glasses Anaglyph effect in Adobe Photoshop
• Class Project – Anaglyph Effect
• How to create a vintage instagram Matte Photo in Photoshop
• Class Project – Vintage Matte Photo
• 69: Vintage Matte Photo
• How to create the paper cut effect in Adobe Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Paper Cut Effect

Artboards

• How to use an Artboard in Adobe Photoshop CC

Color modes & Resolution2 lectures • 18min

• What is the difference between RGB and CMYK in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How do you change the resolution to 300dpi in Photoshop CC

Brushes

• Basic introduction to using a wacom tablet with Photoshop
• How to create splatter paint effects in Adobe Photoshop CC
• How to create dripping paint ink effect in Photoshop
• Class Project – Dripping Paint Brush
• How to create smoke with an image inside it using Photoshop CC
• Class Project – Smoke effect

Shadows

• How to make a Long vector hard shadow in Photoshop
• How to cast a realistic shadow on the ground in Photoshop
• Bending or curved shadow under an image in Photoshop