Learn Photoshop in One Hour
Join Scott Kelby as he teaches you the essential things you need to learn about Photoshop to get up and running. Photoshop has a lot of depth, but you don’t need to know everything, just the tools people use every day. Starting with a lesson on how to view your photos, Scott moves on to the most commonly used tools such as cropping, Levels adjustments, using Camera Raw as a filter, making selections, removing distractions, understanding layers, and much more. There’s even a bonus lesson on extracting hair from a background. At the end of the hour you’ll be ready to dig deeper into any of the topics you’ve learned, and take it as far as you want to go.
Release Date: 2017-12-06
Lessons
Get Started
Join Scott Kelby as he introduces the class and discusses what will be covered in the lessons that follow.
Duration: 4 mins 32 seconds
Cropping
The Crop tool is one of the most often used tools in Photoshop.
Duration: 3 mins 2 seconds
Levels Adjustment and Camera Raw Filter
The Levels adjustment is a great tool for adjusting contrast, eliminating color casts, and more. The Camera Raw filter puts the power of raw processing into a filter.
Duration: 9 mins 53 seconds
Making Selections
There are a number of tools inside of Photoshop for selecting specific areas of an image.
Duration: 14 mins 49 seconds
Removing Distractions
Photoshop has several tools devoted to helping you remove distractions from your photographs.
Duration: 7 mins 3 seconds
Understanding Layers
The ability to place individual elements on their own layers is one of the most powerful features of Photoshop.
Duration: 10 mins 7 seconds
Free Transform
A powerful function for resizing, rotating, and transforming elements within your image.
Duration: 4 mins 30 seconds
Unsharp Mask and Gaussian Blur
Photoshop contains a long list of filters, but there are two that you’ll use the most; Unsharp Mask and Gaussian Blur.
Duration: 5 mins 10 seconds
Bonus Lesson: Selecting Hair
Learn how to use Select and Mask to select hair and extract a person from the background.
Duration: 7 mins 14 seconds