Photoshop Tutorial for Beginners 2022 | Everything You NEED to KNOW!
Summary
TLDRThis tutorial offers a comprehensive guide for Photoshop beginners, highlighting essential tools and techniques. It covers creating new documents, importing images, and manipulating them using various tools like the Move, Selection, Lasso, Quick Selection, and Crop tools. The video also delves into adjusting layers' opacity, using the Clone Stamp for corrections, and adding effects like gradients and text. It concludes with exporting tips, encouraging viewers to master these skills for potential freelance opportunities.
Takeaways
- 😀 Photoshop is a valuable skill for content creation and can be a significant part of building a successful agency.
- 🖼️ To start a new project in Photoshop, create a new document by setting the name, resolution, orientation, color mode, and other preferences.
- 📸 Importing images into Photoshop is as simple as dragging and dropping them onto the document or using the import function.
- 🛠️ Photoshop offers a variety of tools for editing and manipulating images, including move, selection, lasso, quick selection, and crop tools.
- 🎨 The color selector and adjustments panel allow for color and tonal modifications to enhance the image.
- 🖊️ The text tool enables adding and customizing text on images, with options to change font, size, and color.
- 🔄 The history panel is useful for undoing or redoing actions, allowing for non-destructive editing.
- 🎭 Layers are fundamental in Photoshop for organizing and editing different parts of an image without affecting the whole.
- 🖌️ The brush tool is versatile for painting, drawing, and making fine adjustments to selections.
- 🌟 Blending modes and adjustments like curves, hue/saturation, and vibrance can dramatically change the look and feel of an image.
- 💾 Exporting a finished image from Photoshop involves saving it in the desired format and quality, typically as a JPEG or PNG.
Q & A
What is the first step to start a new project in Photoshop according to the video?
-The first step is to click on 'Create New' to create a new document where you can set the name, resolution, orientation, color mode, and other properties.
What is the resolution and name of the document the video creator sets up for their Instagram picture?
-The resolution is set to 1080 by 1350, and the name of the document is 'Instagram picture'.
How does one import a picture into their Photoshop document as demonstrated in the video?
-To import a picture, one should go to their desktop where the picture is stored, and then drag and drop it into the Photoshop document.
What is the primary function of the 'Move Tool' in Photoshop as explained in the video?
-The 'Move Tool' is used to move any elements around within the layers of an image.
How can you select a part of an image in Photoshop using the 'Selection Tool'?
-The 'Selection Tool' allows you to select a part of an image by clicking and dragging over the area you want to select.
What is the purpose of the 'Lasso Tool' in Photoshop?
-The 'Lasso Tool' is used to create freehand selections around objects or areas in an image.
How does the 'Quick Selection Tool' in Photoshop help in selecting objects?
-The 'Quick Selection Tool' helps in selecting objects by automatically detecting edges, and you can add or subtract from the selection using the plus and minus brush options.
What is the 'Clone Stamp Tool' used for in Photoshop, as mentioned in the video?
-The 'Clone Stamp Tool' is used to duplicate parts of an image onto another area, which is helpful for covering up unwanted elements or fixing imperfections.
How can you adjust the opacity of a layer in Photoshop?
-You can adjust the opacity of a layer by clicking on the 'Opacity' option at the bottom right corner of the Layers panel and then sliding the opacity bar to the desired level.
What is the 'Eraser Tool' used for in Photoshop?
-The 'Eraser Tool' is used to remove or erase parts of a layer, allowing you to delete specific areas of an image.
How does the 'Text Tool' work in Photoshop to add text to an image?
-The 'Text Tool' allows you to add text to an image by creating a new layer, clicking on the image where you want the text to appear, and then typing the text. You can adjust the font, size, color, and position as desired.
What is a 'Blending Mode' in Photoshop and how can it affect an image?
-A 'Blending Mode' in Photoshop determines how a layer interacts with the layers beneath it. Changing the blending mode can create various effects such as adding a lens flare or adjusting the contrast and brightness of an image.
How do you export a finished image from Photoshop as described in the video?
-To export an image, go to 'File' > 'Save As', choose the location to save the file, name it, select the format (like JPEG), adjust the quality, and then click 'Save'.
Outlines
🖥️ Getting Started with Photoshop
The speaker introduces the video as a beginner's guide to Photoshop, emphasizing its value in building a successful content creation agency. They guide viewers to open Photoshop and create a new document, explaining the importance of setting the document's name, resolution, orientation, color mode, and more. The speaker demonstrates how to import a picture and use basic tools like the move tool, selection tool, and the lasso tool to manipulate images. They also touch on the use of layers and the history tool for undoing actions, providing a foundation for beginners to start their Photoshop journey.
🛠️ Mastering Essential Photoshop Tools
This section delves into the use of advanced tools in Photoshop. The speaker discusses the quick selection tool for making precise selections, the crop tool for resizing images, and the spot healing brush for fixing imperfections. They also cover the brush tool's versatility, the clone stamp for duplicating parts of an image, and the eraser tool for removing unwanted elements. Additionally, they introduce the gradient tool for creating color gradients and discuss the importance of layer opacity in blending images. Each tool is demonstrated with practical examples, showing how they contribute to the editing process.
🎨 Advanced Techniques and Text Editing
The speaker advances to more complex editing techniques, starting with the text tool for adding customizable text to images. They explain how to adjust text properties like font, size, and color. Moving on to shape tools, they demonstrate creating various shapes with options for fill and stroke. The concept of blending modes is introduced with a practical example of adding a lens flare effect to an image. Adjustment layers are also covered, showing how to modify properties like brightness, contrast, and saturation. The speaker emphasizes the use of blending options to add effects like drop shadows, enhancing the visual appeal of the image.
📤 Exporting Your Photoshop Masterpiece
In the final part of the video, the speaker guides viewers on how to export their edited images. They cover the process of saving the work in various formats, adjusting quality settings, and ensuring the image is ready for sharing or printing. The speaker wraps up by encouraging viewers to apply what they've learned, appreciates their engagement with a call for likes and subscriptions, and teases the next video, maintaining a dynamic and interactive tone throughout.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Photoshop
💡Resolution
💡Document
💡Import
💡Tools
💡Layers
💡Selection
💡Transformation
💡Opacity
💡Blending Modes
💡Export
Highlights
Photoshop is a valuable skill set for content creation and can contribute to building a successful agency.
To start in Photoshop, create a new document by clicking 'create new' and setting the document properties.
Importing a picture into Photoshop is as simple as dragging and dropping it onto the document.
Photoshop's tools are located on the left side of the interface and are crucial for editing and manipulating images.
The move tool allows you to reposition elements within your document.
The selection tool is essential for selecting and copying parts of an image.
Lasso and quick selection tools are used for creating freehand and intelligent selections.
The history panel lets you undo and redo actions, navigating through your image editing progress.
Adjusting the opacity of layers can create unique visual effects.
The Clone stamp tool is useful for covering up unwanted elements or imperfections in an image.
The Eraser tool can be used to remove parts of a layer, such as erasing a hat from a photo.
The gradient tool can create smooth color transitions and is useful for modern-looking designs.
The text tool allows for adding and formatting text on an image with various font and color options.
Shape tools enable the creation of geometric shapes with customizable fills and strokes.
Blending modes, such as 'screen', can be used to blend images together for effects like lens flares.
Adjustment layers can be used to modify the appearance of layers below it, such as brightness and contrast.
Layer blending options offer a variety of effects like drop shadows and bevels to enhance visual depth.
Exporting your final image in Photoshop involves saving it in the desired format and quality.
Transcripts
in today's video I'm going to go over
everything you need to know to get
started in Photoshop as a complete
beginner so without wasting any more
time let's get straight into it so in
today's day and age Photoshop is clearly
a really really valuable skill set in
fact I've been able to build a six
figure of content creation agency and
Photoshop is a huge part of that so you
should definitely pay attention to this
video watch it until the end and master
Photoshop for yourself because you're
gonna be able to even sell this as a
skill so once you open Photoshop this is
kind of what you're going to be seeing
so the first thing that you need to know
if you want to get started is to click
on create new and that's how you can
create a new document and as you can see
here you can set the name of the
document the resolution of the document
the orientation and a lot more also the
color mode so for this document I'm
going to set 1080 by 1350 as the
resolution and I'm going to call it
Instagram picture because I'm going to
edit an Instagram picture for myself and
I'm going to click on create
so now as you can see my brand new
document is created and you're going to
be seeing something like this as well
when you create your first document
alright so the next thing I'm going to
do is Import in a picture of mine so all
I need to do for that is to go my
desktop where I have my picture stored
I'm going to drag and drop it right to
this document and boom you can see it's
already in there so if I want to I can
make it bigger or smaller with this
thing if I hold down shift I can
actually adjust the way uh it is
completely so I can transform it like
this I'm not going to do anything for
that right now so I'm just going to
click on this button but if you wanted
to you could now the way Photoshop is
kind of laid out is there are all these
different tools right here on the left
these are the ones that you're going to
use the most uh to edit your pictures
and manipulate them and if you are
looking for anything that isn't right
there on this bar you can always just go
to window and then toggle on and off
um any of these different tools
basically right here you can find the
history which is some which is a tool
where you can either go forward or
backward with the progress of your image
so if you want to undo something you can
do it right there or if you want to go
back to a previous uh place where you
were before then you can do that as well
so that's really useful and then here
you have the color selector and all
these different things that you can use
and here you have adjustments where you
can do a lot of cool manipulations for
your pictures and here you have the
different layers which I'm going to go a
little bit more in depth into later on
in this video so now first let me go
over to most important and most used
tools right here so this first one is
the move tool which is something you can
use to move anything around any of the
layers anything already on your picture
now the next one is the selection tool
which is also something that you're
going to use a lot it is something that
you can use to for example select a part
of your picture and then make a
selection with it like the name suggests
and for example if I wanted to just copy
and paste this part of the image I can
just click on comment C and comment V
and you can see I just made another
layer right here and now I have this
separate part as well and you can see
here with this eye icon you can also
toggle on and off any of the different
layers which is a pretty pretty useful
thing because you know once you have a
lot of layers you might not want to see
all of them at once you might just want
to edit a certain layer so that can be
really useful as well the next tool
right here is the lasso tool now it is
something that you can also use to
create a selection so you can just press
down your mouse or your uh whatever
you're using your touchpad and make a
selection like that now if you want to
get go out of a selection you can always
just click on this one and then click
anywhere and the selection is going to
go away the next tool is uh the quick
selection tool which is something that I
personally use all the time to Moscow
people or mountains or trees or any
different objects for example if I
wanted to mask myself out of this image
I would first need to click on this one
which is the plus now if you're on this
plus brush then you're basically adding
more things into your selection and if
you go into the uh minus brush then
you're subtracting things from your
selection so first I'm just going to add
myself and you can see how smart
Photoshop is at detecting like different
edges and all that you can later one
also adjust this but you can see how
it's it's doing a pretty good job at
selecting just myself that is it I did a
pretty pretty good job now if I wanted
to do any like really really precise
adjustments to the selection I could hit
Q on my keyboard like this you can see
now all the parts that aren't selected
are in red and the parts that are
selected are not read obviously so if
you want to make any small tiny
adjustments you can just zoom in on your
image which you can do by either just
using your touchpad or clicking comment
and minus and plus and basically then
you want to go to this brush tool or
just press B on your keyboard and then
if you have black color selected you're
going to be adding more things to the
selection by brushing over it and if you
have the white color selected you are
going to take things out of your
selection and you can switch between
black and white by just pressing X on
your keyboard so once you perfected your
selection you will click on cue again so
now I'm happy with my selection I'm just
going to press come and see and comment
V and you can see how I just cut myself
out and now there is no background
attached to this image the next tool is
the crop tool you can use this to crop
your image to whatever kind of size you
want it to now the next tool that I use
a lot is the spot healing brush now this
is something that you can use if you
want to cover up any
imperfections or anything like that I
don't know what would be the best
example in this case but maybe like any
school activities or anything like that
can be uh you know easily fixed with
this so I'm just going to create a
smaller brush size which you can adjust
right here on the bottom top even
smaller one and then I'm just gonna you
know brush over this and you can see how
it disappeared it is a really really
cool tool to use if you have any stains
on a shirt or any acne or anything like
that that you want to just cover up the
next tool is the brush tool I kind of
covered that already with the selection
part but basically this is just the
brush tool like you can brush over
things with it it is really really
useful you can use it in a bunch of
different ways here you can actually
select how big you want the size of the
brush to be the hardness of the brush to
be and the flow as well all these
different things I think you should go
ahead and experiment with it a little
bit this alone is just a tool that I
could spend minutes uh like tens of
minutes talking on and this is not the
video for that but if you want to learn
it for yourself you know do some
adjustments and see how it works but you
can see how I can you know brush over
things with it now a really cool tool
that you can kind of combine with this
and everything else is how uh the
opacity of the layers work so if you go
right here to the bottom um right corner
and you click on opacity you can
actually change the opacity of these uh
different layers so you can see how it
changes the whole thing now the next
tool is the Clone stamp which is also a
really really useful tool to use
basically with this you can kind of also
get rid of anything on your image or
cover things up so for example if I
wanted to make fix my hair on this image
you can see it's all over the place I
would go here and make my brush size
smaller and then I need to click option
on my keyboard and then take a part of
the image which I'm going to kind of
like duplicate on the image and then you
can see uh yeah these up the object must
be rasterized that's fine uh you can
click OK on that and then you can see
how it kind of uh just takes support of
the image and uh lays over on the other
part and and this is really really fun
to use as well like you can see I
already fixed up my hair and uh I just
got rid of that obviously you would want
to do like a much better job at this and
take more samples and make it more
precise but you can cover up anything
for this now the next often used tool is
the Eraser tool you can use this to
erase any parts of a certain layer so if
I wanted to erase uh you know my hat for
example from this image I'm just going
to
deselect the lower layer and just have
this one where it's only me and I'm just
going to go ahead select this layer that
I want to you know erase something from
and I'm just going to
erase it slowly and you can see how I
have just erased my head
um
pretty cool right the next tool is the
gradient tool so this is something that
you can use to create different
ingredients obviously so I'm going to
create a new layer
um which is which you can do by clicking
on this button right here and if I click
on this part I can make the gradient
different color so let's make this one
for example green and then I can just go
and do this and then you can see I just
made a cool gradient so this looks
pretty modern if you ask me I can adjust
the position of these so you can see
because I already cut myself out of the
of the frame I have um this I can
actually make it look something like
this which would be you know pretty
modern looking and kind of cool actually
so yeah you can use this to create
different gradients there are a bunch of
different presets here as well and yeah
it is also really useful tool to know
play around with now the next very very
often used tool is the text tool
basically all you need to do with this
is to create a new layer or select the
layer that you want to write on and then
press somewhere on the image and then
you can basically start writing so I'm
just going to say
um you know like fashion
on this picture now I can you know move
this around by clicking comment and T on
this text and I can make it bigger or
smaller whatever I want really then I
can also obviously change the order of
these so I'm gonna make myself overlay
that text kind of and you can select
this text and change the font to
anything that you want to change it to
and boom you can see I just changed the
font that is how simple it is to use you
can change the color of this hacks or
anything really you can do whatever you
want with it that's one of the reasons
why Photoshop is so great because there
are so many ways to manipulate your
image and create amazing art so the last
thing I want to cover right now of the
tools is the different shape tools so
you can have a rectangle tool a rounded
rectangle tool ellipse tool polish gun
line whatever there are so many
different shapes and and things that you
can use uh and you can see that you can
select the fill here
um so with the rectangle tool it's it's
basically going to be like what the
shape is filled with you can also create
have a stroke if you want to or or if or
you can have no stroke and um and yeah
basically you just go ahead and uh
that's how easy it is to create a
different
um any rectangle types and and this is
the same way the other shape tools work
as well okay so the next thing I quickly
want to go over is blending mode so on
this image I want to add a lens flare to
it so I actually downloaded this cool
lens for uh image from Google so I'm
just going to drag and drop it on top of
my picture and I'm going to actually
make this be the top layer so it
overlays everything else I'm going to
press comment T and resize it so it's a
little bit bigger and I want the lens
flare to kind of come in something like
this like it was uh the Sun and then I'm
going to place this layer right here
and then next I'm going to go here to
blending mode and then you can see how
uh it works with the different blending
modes so for example with uh lighten or
screen it Blends in pretty well so I'm
going to select screen maybe make it a
little bit even bigger and you can see
how how it added like really cool lens
flare effect to it now if I want to
soften the edges of this I can just use
uh my
eraser tool make the hardness lower and
you can see if I turn it into a smart
object I can kind of uh you know take
out Parts where I don't want it to have
it and boom that is how simple it is I
just added a cool lens flare to the
image and made it a lot more exciting in
my opinion another thing I quickly want
to go over is the adjustments so if I
want to for example make myself a little
bit more contrasty or brighter on this
image I'm going to click on this layer
that I want to adjust it and then I can
choose any of these different
adjustments so you can change the Hue or
saturation of it exposure Vibrance
anything like that so I'm just going to
create a curve here and create an
s-curve to make it a little bit brighter
and more contrasty at the same time and
you can see how this adjusts layers that
are under it so I can on and off it and
see how it changes the contrast of the
whole image but if I only want wanted to
adjust one layer that is under it I can
right click on it create clipping mask
and you can see now it only adjusts my
face and my masked out self now I'm
going to go over blending options really
quickly as well so select the layer that
you want to change the blending options
of and this is a place where you can do
a bunch of cool stuff with it like you
can change the stroke of it and here you
can you know make the stroke uh any size
uh you can also do like different
bevel and embrossing here as well to
make it look like 3D kind of stuff I'm
not gonna go super deep into it but I
want you to you know play around with it
and check it out for yourself you can do
like gradients overlays here
um on whatever layers you're adjusting
uh pattern overlays a bunch of cool
stuff and one of my favorites is the
drop shadow which you're probably going
to be using a lot and you can you know
adjust the angle of the drop shadow the
distance of the drop shadow here the
size of it uh the opacity of it and you
can see how I created this cool looking
text by just adjusting a couple blending
options now that you have your
Masterpiece ready let's go over how to
actually export this image so so you're
going to go into file save as and then
you're going to go save on your computer
and then you will select wherever you
want to save it you can name it here and
you can select the uh format here so I'm
going to use jpeg for this one and then
I click save I can choose what kind of
quality I want it to be I'm going to
press on the max quality and okay and
then boom that is basically all there is
to it you can see now my image is right
here and saved on my desktop so I hope
you guys enjoy this video if you did
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