Although you can find some really excellent tutorials for free at places like YouTube, the trend seems to be now towards 'paid learning' The advantage of the paid courses tends to be they are organized so that one topic builds upon another and you also generally have access to the images the teacher uses so you can follow along.
I recently went through Deke McClelland's One on One series for Photoshop 2017 on Lynda.Com. The course consists of three courses, in fact, beginning with 'Fundamentals', going to 'Advanced' and finally 'Mastery' as Mr McClelland calls it and is one of the best set of courses I know of for learning Photoshop. It is not for the casual user though as each course is around 15 hours long , so 45 hours in total for the entire thing. I went through it in about a week, but had the advantage of already knowing Photoshop quite well, others might take a wee bit longer. The truth is you cannot watch hour after hour of videos and expect to remember them, you just get information overload. Deke also talks very fast , so a 15 hour course with him equates to a 20 hour course with many others. However for anyone determined enough the courses can fast track you from nowhere to good enough to answer questions here on the forum or maybe even make your own tutorials on YouTube and start to build a portfolio. How fast is fast? I'd say study a course like that over at least six months and do no more than a couple of lessons a day followed by practice. The masking sections of that course are particularly good and anyone struggling with Select and Mask will benefit and also perhaps understand the limitations and start using the more complex Calculations and Apply Image functionality which is the professional approach to masking and are explained extremely well.
Another great source is Phlearn.com with Aaron Nace. They have free tutorials but also very in depth professional tutorials as well. They have recently introduced a $10/month subscription allowing access to everything and you can cancel any time. Personally I prefer the Nace to McClelland style as Aaron is more of a creative who understands the importance of lighting, lens, filters and cameras and can work outside Photoshop in consequence, whereas Deke's approach is more academic. It's horse's for courses though and both are very good.
Thanks for your advice Terri! The Lynda is great source for learning Photoshop but as you said watching tons of hours tutorials is gonna mad myself. Phlearn free tutorials are like I mean they got how to add sky, how remove logos from t-shirt, how to whiten teeth, how to change colors I didn't find any basic tutorial there like somewhat titled introduction to Photoshop. But I appreciate you lend a hand for help!
Hi experts,
The only thing I am an expert of is "learning" fast but I am a learner with an anamoly. Rather than learning "how to do" something, I always want to understand concepts and then, find my own "how to do". Every single photoshop tutorial I've seen focuses on "how to do" and generally begins with how to open a file --> how to crop --> change this option / that option. However, I would have loved a tutorials that begins by explaining how the designers of photoshop envisaged it. For instance, first comes the canvas - which is really like the artist's table. Then, comes the first layers. Similarly, in other tools like content-aware, what exactly is going on in the background? How is the photoshop brain thinking and processing? In the absence of all of this, I feel like a student who has been taught how to add a two-digit number and get a result without ever explaining the concept of addition. Sorry for the rant but it is with a lot of thanks to all the people who've put in their valuable time to create tutorials and communities around photoshop.
Hi, I have found my way around Lighgtroom since March 2021 with no problems but have just started to learn Photoshop and have been very disappointed that I can't do a basic tutorial because my updated version of photoshop doesn't work. I'm not sure if the previous versions work as I am going through things slowly and methodically and am just starting to work through tutorials. The brush tool doesn't work at all. In Photoshop in the Edit tool there is no Step Backward and Step forward as described in the tutorial and the Ctrl + Z is not fully working. I do not have the technical knowledge or confidence to get instructions to attempt to follow a way through solving these issues so what can I do to get up and running? I do use CAD program with a NVIDIA GE Force CTX 1050 Ti graphics card but do not know what to do to check if this is a problem. I have only today updated the Driver for it and thats about the limit of my knowledge. I can't even understand what a defaultex71hg1cj4ry that I see below is. It may be my age but I do hope to continue learning. Can I be helped in any way please.
Thanks for your reply. I'm more concerned that the brush tool doesn't work . In the tutorial that I was doing you have to use the brush tool so that you can try out the undo tools. I don't have any experience in any other previous versions of Photoshop so everything is new to me. I did try this updated version 22.4.3 with the first 4 tutorials and tried the 5th 'Get To Know Photoshop'. I had problems with the brush tool at 4/ in the tutorial (only one pre-selected colour would operate) so I closed and tried again later. This time the brush tool did not work at all. I am wondering if it is ok to uninstall photoshop and then re-install it to see if that helps?? Or could it be a glitch in this updated version? I haven't used previous versions of Photoshop as I have been finding my way around lightroom since March. I though I'd take a year to learn and then decide what to do after that. Is anyone else having this problem I wonder?
There are so many Photoshop tutorials online that you should be able to find a guide to show you how to create whatever you want in Adobe's industry-leading image editing software. For newcomers to the software, the best Photoshop tutorials are a great way to quickly get up to speed but they can be useful for old hands too, including to get a quick overview of the latest Photoshop beta, version 25.1.
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Colin, thank you for this great tutorial! I have a question for you, and that is, is there an action for creating a typographic portrait out there somewhere? It seems that in most of the tutorials, you have to input the text dozens of times before you can overlay it over the image. There has to be a quicker way to accomplish this. Thank you in advance!
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