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Welcome to Photoshop Essentials, where anyone can learn Photoshop! We offer Photoshop tutorials you won't find anywhere else, with easy to follow, step by step training that's perfect for all skill levels! Each tutorial is written with beginners in mind, so even if you're brand new to Photoshop, you can easily follow along! You'll be amazed at what you can do with Photoshop in no time at all! New tutorials are added regularly so be sure to check back often for the latest updates.
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Latest Photoshop Basics Tutorials - View All
Photoshop CS6 New Features - The Interface
In this first tutorial on the new features of Photoshop CS6, learn all about the new darker interface and how to control its appearance with color themes!
Photoshop Selections - The Color Range Command
When it comes to making color-based selections in an image, most Photoshop users turn to the Magic Wand Tool because it's easy and it's right there in the Tools panel. But if you dig a bit deeper, you'll find the Color Range command, and in this tutorial, you'll learn why it's time to wave that Magic Wand goodbye!
Photoshop Type - Creating Warped Text
Learn how Photoshop's built-in Warp Text options make it easy to twist, stretch and distort type into all kinds of different shapes and designs, all while keeping the text and the effect itself fully editable!
Photoshop Type - An Easy Way To Set Your Type Size
Tired of guessing at font sizes when adding text to your Photoshop documents? Learn how to scale your type to any size you need, with a live preview of the results that makes it easy to choose the right font size every time!
Photoshop Selections - Feather Selections With Quick Mask
There are lots of times when we need to feather, or soften, our selection edges, but Photoshop's Feather command gives us no way to preview what we're doing. In this tutorial, learn a better way to feather selections using Quick Mask mode!
Latest Photo Retouching Tutorials - View All
Selecting Hair With Refine Edge In Photoshop CS5
Selecting hair in a photo was once strictly for the pros, but in this tutorial, learn how the improved and powerful Refine Edge command in Photoshop CS5 makes selecting hair easier than ever!
How To Replace The Sky In A Photo
In this Photo Retouch tutorial, learn how to easily replace the original sky in a photo with the sky from a different image using a simple selection, a layer mask, and the power of Photoshop's Advanced Blending sliders!
Boost Color Contrast With A Black & White Adjustment
It may be called a Black & White image adjustment, but don't let the name fool you. In this Photo Retouch tutorial, we learn how to combine it with one of Photoshop's layer blend modes to easily control the brightness and contrast of different areas in a full color photo!
How To Lighten And Brighten Eyes With Photoshop
In this Photo Retouching tutorial, learn a fast and easy way to lighten and brighten someone's eyes in a photo using nothing more than a simple adjustment layer, a layer blend mode and a brush!
Darken Overexposed Photos With The Multiply Blend Mode
In the previous tutorial, we learned how to quickly brighten an underexposed photo using the Screen blend mode. In this tutorial, learn how to darken and tone down an overexposed image just as easily using the exact opposite blend mode!
Latest Photo Effects Tutorials - View All
Selective Coloring Effect In Photoshop
Can't decide if your photo would look better in color or black and white? Why not try both at once! Learn a fast and easy way to do selective coloring in Photoshop, turning most of your image black and white while keeping your main subject in full color!
Folds And Creases Effect In Photoshop
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, learn how to easily add folds and creases to a photo as if it had been folded and unfolded like a map!
Radial Zoom Enhanced Eyes Effect
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, learn how to give someone's eyes a fun, easy to create 'zoom' effect with blur streaks that zoom out from the center of the eyes. We'll also enhance the brightness and color of the eyes while we're at it!
Faded Pixels Photo Border Effect
In this Photoshop Effects tutorial, learn how to create a "faded pixels" photo border, with the image appearing through randomly-sized and scattered square pixel shapes that gradually fade into a solid colored background.
How To Blend Textures With Photos In Photoshop
Learn the essentials of blending textures with photos in Photoshop, including how to quickly cycle through the layer blend modes, how to blend only the brightness values of the texture to keep the photo's original colors, how to invert textures for different results, and more!
Latest Text Effects Tutorials - View All
Multiple Text Strokes With Smart Objects In Photoshop
Need to add multiple strokes around your text? Normally Photoshop only lets us add a single Stroke effect to a layer, but in this tutorial, learn how to easily get around that problem using Smart Objects so you can add as many stroke outlines to your text as you need!
Editable Blurred Type With Layer Styles
Most Photoshop users turn to the Gaussian Blur filter when they need to blur text in an image or design, but in this tutorial, learn how to keep your blurred type fully editable by creating the same effect with layer styles!
Stroke Text With A Brush In Photoshop
Learn how to create interesting designs out of text in Photoshop by converting the text into a path, then using brushes to add stroke outlines around the letters!
Rotate, Flip & Scale Individual Letters In Text
Photoshop makes it easy to rotate, flip or scale entire words or lines of text in a document, but in this tutorial, we take things further and learn how to select and transform individual letters in a word!
Ghostly Blur Text Effect
Learn how to give text a ghostly, supernatural look to it in Photoshop using a couple of simple blur filters!
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How To Resize Images In Photoshop
Let's look at one of the most popular uses for Photoshop, how to resize your images! We'll learn how to make photos smaller using the Image Size command, and why making them larger is almost never a good idea.
Save Photos For Email Or The Web In Photoshop CS5
Learn how to resize, optimize and save a copy of your photo for uploading to the web or emailing to family and friends using the Image Size and Save For Web & Devices commands in Photoshop CS5!
Adding Contact And Copyright Info To Your Photos
Uploading your photos to the web can be a great way to get yourself and your work noticed, but before you send an image out into the world, make sure your contact and copyright information is included with the file. This tutorial shows you how!
Photoshop Essential File Formats Quick Guide
Feeling overwhelmed by the number of file formats to choose from when trying to save your images in Photoshop? This quick guide looks at the essential formats we need to know, including the pros and cons of each one and the situations where it makes the most sense to use it!
Image Compression: Seeing The Difference With Digital Photos And JPEG Compression
It's a fact of life with digital photos that sometimes we need to compress them to make our file sizes smaller. Our computer screens don't always make it easy to see the damage being done to the image, but thanks to one of Photoshop's rarely-used blending modes, the horrors of jpeg compression become strikingly clear.
Latest Photoshop Tips and Tricks Tutorials - View All
Saving And Reusing Text As A Custom Shape- Great for logos or copyright information!
Handy Tricks & Keyboard Shortcuts For Type- Working with type made easier!
Make Colorizing An Image With Hue/Saturation Easier- No more aimlessly dragging the Hue slider!
Make Layer Styles And Masks Work Together- Get the results you expect!
