Beginning Photoshop

Time to get Digital

This is a fundamental Photoshop course designed specifically for people who want to learn to paint in Photoshop but who have never used Photoshop before. The video lessons are broken down into short simple segments demonstrating a few tools. Will uses Photoshop CC in the videos but the lessons and tools apply to PS5 and PS6 as well. This video is designed to give you the foundation you need so you can begin to learn more advanced techniques in other tutorials.

This is a pre-recorded class and is ready to download right now. The frog drawing comes in a download so you can follow along – it is found at the bottom of the streaming player window. Run time approx. 2 hrs 33 min.

In this class you will learn:

Setting up your workstation

Opening and sizing a document

Opening a scanned pencil sketch

How to use the layers pallet

Navigating with the hand, rotation, canvas size

How to edit images/ smart images

Brushes, opacity, flow, shape dynamics, transfer

Color swatches, color pallet

Painting assets on different layers for animation

Painting start to finish