Adobe Photoshop Tutorial : The Basics for Beginners
Adobe Photoshop Tutorial For Beginners, teaching the Basics Of Adobe Photoshop. Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners, going over many important aspects when first starting graphic design!
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction
1:36 Interface
10:48 Effects Panel
16:54 Working With Images
27:25 Working With Text
30:10 Essential Tools
Photoshop Basics Tutorial #2:
Follow Me On Twitter!
Music Thanks to Macleod:
"Easy Lemon" KevinMacLeod (incompetech.com)
Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 4.0
This tutorial was made to familiarize anyone to using Adobe Photoshop, and start creating awesome graphic design and projects today! This long video is a 5-Section tutorial that was designed to be a resource which could be used if one wishes to improve upon/ learn one certain aspect covered in the basics, however if you are a complete beginner, I recommend you follow along the whole way though this tutorial, so hopefully by the end of it, you will be alot more confident with your knowledge and ability as you continue getting more comfortable with the program!
Hi Alec, Hope everything is going well.
I am watching your photoshop tutorial, this video teaching me how to use the tools and how to create shadows and everything. It is very interesting how you talk through step by step. Here I am taking all the notes whilst your showing all the tools in photoshop.
Soon I will be using photoshop to draw and create designs for my own T-shirt business – I just can’t wait!!
Have a good day 🙂
haha, i’m doing the same thing…good luck!
I respect a person who tells me when the actual content begins
@waesabii thank you!!
Suleyman Suleyman this is the second time I’ve seen this comment, exactly word for word, on the same video, from two different accounts. Y’all ain’t slick
@Sticky Johnston lmao…….boomer
I’m not sure but ,if anyone else is searching for try Nadazma Easy Photoshop Helper (just google it ) ? Ive heard some great things about it and my partner got amazing success with it.
same man
Episode 2 to Photoshop Basics is now up, I will be continuing this as a series! In the second tutorial, we go over alot of awesome stuff, including Lighting Effects, Photo Manipulation, Filter Effects, Masking and more! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DPVHFb4nv4
I’ve been studying how to use photoshop and discovered a great website at trevs photoblueprint (google it if you are interested)
here’s a few suggestions about which features of Photoshop to learn first
Image size alteration
Image merging
Layers
(I discovered about these and more on Trevs Photo Blueprint site )
Ok
Dude, I’m watching this in 2020, and although the versions are different, so much is identical. I can’t thank you enough for this. I feel like I am really getting a hang of photoshop thanks to this video. Looking forward to watching the rest of your series!
Oh my,im watching this in 2022
It can work on any electrical things
@Alexei Bradley-Malcolm thank you for your answer.?
@Cristina L. I believe it works on ipads as well (specifically iPadOS), but it might be a dumbed down version, I’m not sure tho.
@Second Crop Creative hh
Hi Alex, just wanted to express my thanks for this excellent video (& the series), I’m super new to Photoshop and so many videos have made me want to give up, but yours is really easy to understand and you take your time to explain, which I so appreciate. I’m used to Coreldraw and several other designs programmes, & Photoshop is a whole different bag, the reason I bought it was to transform photos of people & their pets into real watercolour pics (I have a programme to download which does this to perfection!), so if you have any tips or have included this in any videos or were thinking of doing that in the future, I’d be so grateful. You’re the best, so many other videos race through stuff, so thank you again! Heather UK
‘Im a beginner and this was very informative ,Beautifully explained and you’ve managed to keep it simple! Thank you so much!
Thank you so much! I hope you kept this series going. My first time here and of all of the tutorials I have tried you make it the most clear and understandable. I’m so excited. Layers are so easy by your tutorial, I have been blocked on them and you can’t do much without layers.
First time here. I feel overwhelmed and intimidated by photoshop in general but you explain it so easily and pretty straightforward. Keep the great contents going. Namaste
Hey Alec, That was a simple and an easy tutorial for beginners. You saved me from spending cash on going to an Adobe Photoshop class. Appreciate the effort. Keep up the great work.
The smallest things in content production go the furthest distances. Even though it was a minute in, and 35 seconds until, the fact you put a time stamp for the true start is really nice. Got a new fan out of me today.
I can still remember those days when I used to watch these kinda videos especially the ones with text effects. I went from discovering Photoshop and knowing absolutely nothing about it, all I was doing in the app was messing around with the brush and shape tool to knowing the majority of commands and shortcuts in the software. I never really took it that serious at first but as I saw myself progress overtime it was just stuck to me. It just shows that little steps can get you to the achievement you want to reach for.
A couple other things to recognize as a beginner from experience: Learn the keyboard shortcuts. They are essentially priceless for speed. Speed-driven quality is what makes your money in Photoshop. The faster you are, the more content you can create in an hour. The more content you can create, the more valuable that hour becomes. Your goal is to become skilled enough to create as much QUALITY content in an hour as possible. That is how photographers charge hundreds of dollars an hour. I guarantee you that any skilled photoshop designer uses keyboard shortcuts religiously. The work being completed in that hour is MASSIVE. So, they charge massively. Also, learn Adobe terminology. I’ll never forget the time that I was trying to complete a clipping mask but didn’t know the terminology for the action I was trying to complete. I would type “fit image into text” in my searches. Finally, I came across a tutorial that explained the term for the action. Next search I knew which wording to use to further advance my skills. God bless!
Stop…we wanna learn to do memes
FlyandFavored I have a crack of 2020 photoshop that works just the same as normal photoshop just you don’t have to pay for it
i see your comment is old, but may i ask is there a way to get photoshop for free? To learn study it etc? Or you have to pay every month to have it?
Software that is geared towards productivity like Photoshop will have a lot of ways to speed up whatever process. Keyboard shortcuts, key modifiers, automation, and functions that repeat whatever your last function was. Adobe just gets better and better at it. I used to process an image with hue saturation, or curves, etc. I would save the setting as a file on my desktop. When I loaded up my next image, I would load that file and it would recall the settings. That was cool. But then I accidentally found that if I pressed something like Control, Alt, Shift then launched Curves, or hue saturation, or any window, it would recall the last setting automatically. Photoshop is full of stuff like that. Illustrator too.
Very good video. I would recommend to make the icons bigger as it’s difficult to see them but the content is helpful. Thank you.
Just started watching this so he may bring it up later but two things:
1) When creating a file you should also choose if you want a white or a transparent background. A transparent background is the best it allows you to use the image over another layer. Best way to start is that or use a white background then start your image on a new transparent layer this way your image isn’t blended into a white background and will nicely go over other layers and the white background as a separate layer will allow you see it as grounded image without being incorporated into that background.
2) Pixels resolution: pixels per inch. If I had a dollar for every image I’ve made that I can never use larger than a few inches I could have a pretty good time in Vegas. The program starts defaulted to 72 pixels per inch not good if you want a small image of a few inches to be blown up into a poster or some larger format. If you do this you will end up with all sorts of obvious pixilation. Here you want to use something denser.
What a great way of presentation. Thanks for delivering maximum in such a limited time.
Thank you! This video is helpful and detailed, even the beginners like me will understand how to use Photoshop, considering the AutoCAD. 10/10 FOR THIS VIDEO!
Thank you so much, even though I am using the 2019 version instead of the CS6 version, the instructions are so clear and concise as to what to do, your speed and interface coverage is so helpful. When I came to photoshop I had absolutely no idea what to do. Once again, thank you so very much for this video and I look forward to seeing the next one tomorrow! I have to go to sleep now, too much photoshopping for today!
Thanks Alec, really learnt a lot of the basics ! Now finally I did something on Photoshop.
This was THE most straight forward, helpful tutorial I have found for a true PS beginner. All the PS “basics” videos I found seemed meant for someone who already knew what the buttons do. Thanks for taking us step by step.
Same from my side?
I’m a beginner and this was very informative, beautifully explained and you’ve managed to keep it simple! I feel overwhelmed and intimidated by photoshop in general, but you explain it so easily and straightforward. Keep the great contents going. Thank you so much!
Same here