Photoshop CC Fundamentals
Course info
Course info
Description
Learn how to harness the power of Adobe Photoshop CC to create superior images and artwork. We'll teach you how to perform key image editing tasks, including retouching, sharpening, and color correction. In the course you'll see how to effectively work with layers, blend modes, masks, and so much more. This course is the first in a series designed to help you master one of the world's most popular software applications. Software required: Photoshop CC
Course FAQ
You will learn the foundational tools, techniques, and principles to successfully create within Photoshop. Some of the concepts in this course include:
- Creating a document
- File types and digital imaging concepts
- Making selections and basic compositing
- Understanding layers and masks
- Cropping transforming and warping images
- Photo retouching
- Much more
Nope! This is an introductory course geared completely towards beginners. It assumes no prior knowledge of or experience with Photoshop.
This may go without saying, but you will need to have Photoshop in order to practice and apply the concepts outlined in this course. The modules will be based off of Photoshop CC 2018, but most of the concepts will still apply if you have an older or newer version.
This course will be beneficial to anyone involved in design, art, photography, or videography in any capacity. Even for the casual creator, photoshop is a fundamental software to know how to use.
No, Photoshop is not that hard to learn. There is an initial learning curve, but once you get familiar with the tools and nail down the basics, you'll find Photoshop easy to use.
There are a vast amount of jobs that use Photoshop. Some of the most prominent are:
- Graphic Designer
- Photographer
- Web Developer
- Freelance Designer
- Front End Developer
- Production Artist
- Web Designer
- And much more.
About the author
Matthew Pizzi is an Adobe Certified instructor with over 15 years of experience teaching Adobe applications.
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Section Introduction Transcripts
Course Overview
Hi. My name's Matthew Pizzi. I'm a director of technology curriculum here at Pluralsight, and this is Photoshop CC 2018 Fundamentals. Adobe Photoshop is the world's most popular image editing application. It's a versatile application used by photographers, print designers, web designers, video editors, and many other types of artists and professionals working in the digital space. This course, Photoshop CC Fundamentals, is your first step into mastering this powerful application. In this course I'm going to show you what you need to know to get started and to build the foundation of knowledge, so you can further your Photoshop education. You may find what we review here is all that you need to know. We'll discuss the most important concepts in the program, like selections and layers, to practical skills like photo retouching and how to make image adjustments. By the time you complete this course you'll understand key digital imaging concepts like resolution, output, and how to work and navigate successfully inside the program. Adobe Photoshop is such an important tool that any photographer, graphic designer, or digital artist must be competent using it. If you find that you want to dig deeper into some of the topics that we discuss here, or other features we don't have time to review, I strongly encourage you to follow the skill path we have set up here on Pluralsight, Photoshop CC for Creative Professionals.