Photoshop » Basics

The following tutorial will walk you through from launching the program to the work area of Photoshop, including palette information and other important areas of this program. By the time you are done with this exercise, you will understand the layout and some important terms used in this graphics program. When you are finished with the tutorial, please complete the quiz.

The following tutorial will walk you through creating a new image file to opening a picture. We will also show you how to save an image and some important keyboard shortcuts. Along the way we will show you many different tips and tricks that can be used in Photoshop and image files such as how to open multiple files at once.

In this tutorial will get the file ready by changing and setting the file information and we will be showing you different ways on how to compress the image to make it a smaller file size so it can be viewed on the web or shared with friends. The beauty of compressing an image in Photoshop is it reduces the file size with very little quality loss to the picture.

In this tutorial we will show you how to use the different features of the Paint Brush and the Pencil tool. By the time you are done with this tutorial you will also be able to select a color to use in your image from many different ways (picking the color from an existing image, using numeric values to find your color, etc.).

In this tutorial you will learn how to create a rainbow effect in Photoshop

In this quick article i’ll be showing you how to maximize your work space when working on more than one piece of artwork within photoshop.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a depth a field.

This Photoshop tutorial will teach you how to create a sunburst effect.

Learn how to create a twirl effect in Photoshop.

Learn how to use the lasso tools in Photoshop.