Learn all Photoshop Secrets even if you have no previous knowledge of Photoshop.

We do courses like this because we love to teach and because we believe that knowledge empowers people to improve their lives. We have been doing this for more than 25 years and we are very happy about the results.

We believe that less is more. You don't need hundreds of hours of teaching material to really learn something. We believe in teaching the key elements and let your brain breath and process the information, using practice to connect the knowledge you just acquired.

After publishing dozens of books and hundreds of courses online, we have developed a win-win approach to teach everything you need to know to master a topic. For this reason,Learn Photoshop with Paper, Markers, and Scissors is a course about Photoshop for all levels.

Learn Photoshop with Paper, Markers, and Scissors uses a real world approach to show the similarities between composing regular and cut-out layers made of paper and transparent layers made out of plastic and digital layers, so the student will never forget and will understand the basis of graphics design.

Beautifully designed, with 63 lessons and a total of 287 minutes of videos in English, this course shows in a hands-on approach, how to use Photoshop to do all kinds of operations, like adjusting colors and levels, using the interface, improve photographs, remove unwanted elements, refine images and much more.

Learn Photoshop with Paper, Markers, and Scissors is a course for everybody, from pros to amateurs, students or digital photography enthusiasts or for those who simply want to learn Photoshop to improve their pictures.

No previous knowledge of photoshop is required.





Lessons in the course:

ESSENTIAL KNOWLEDGE

1. What are pixels?

2. All about RGB and CMYK colors.

3. What is antialiasing?

4. RGB channels and what are bits per pixel.

5. Resolution, dots per inch for digital and printing worlds.





LEARN WHAT LAYERS ARE USING REAL WORLD VERSIONS MADE OF PAPER AND PLASTIC

6. Understanding layers using regular paper and plastic layers – Part 0

7. Understanding layers using regular paper and plastic layers – Part 1

8. Understanding layers using regular paper and plastic layers – Part 2

9. Understanding layers using regular paper and plastic layers – Part 3

10. What are Blending Modes and how to use them.





WHAT ARE DIGITAL LAYERS

11. The Background Layer

12. Regular Layers





HOW TO PERFORM BASIC AND ADVANCED OPERATIONS TO LAYERS

13. Move and Scale a Layer

14. Rotate, Distort, and Skew a Layer

15. Flip, Mirror, and Rotate a Layer

16. Apply Distortion and Change the Perspective of a Layer

17. Warping a Layer

18. The Paint Bucket Tool





BRUSHES AND OPERATIONS TO BRUSHES

19. Brushes in all their glory

20. All about Dodge, Burn, Sponge, Blur, Sharpen, and Smudge





ALL ABOUT LASSOS, SELECTIONS, MARQUEES, MATTES, AND MASKS

21. All about Lassos, Selections, and Marquees

22. Operations you can do to Selections

23. The power of Selections and Mattes





BALANCING, ADJUSTING AND CHANGING COLORS

24. Replacing a Color

25. Changing the Color Levels of a picture

26. The Color Balance Tool

27. The Curves Tool

28. What are Colors Out of Gamut (Part 1)

29. What are Colors Out of Gamut (Part 2)





CORRECT IMPERFECTIONS, GET RID OF UNWANTED ELEMENTS

30. The amazing power of the Spot Healing Brush to correct imperfections

31. Using the Healing Brush Tool to fix imperfections

32. Using the Path Tools to remove unwanted elements, scratches and spots

33. BONUS LECTURE – How to restore and image





ALL ABOUT SMART OBJECTS

34. What are Smart Objects and how to use them to preserve your layers (Part 1)

35. What are Smart Objects and how to use them to preserve your layers (Part 2)





ALL ABOUT LAYER STYLES

36. All About Layer Styles (Color Overlay, Bevel and Emboss, and Stroke)

37. All About Layer Styles (Inner Shadow, Inner Glow, and Satin)

38. All About Layer Styles (Gradient)

39. All About Layer Styles (Pattern Overlay, Outer Glow and Drop Shadow)





REFINING A PICTURE

40. Removing Unwanted Elements from Pictures (Part 1)

41. Removing Unwanted Elements from Pictures (Part 2)

42. Removing Unwanted Elements from Pictures (Part 3)

43. Smoothing and Soften Skin

44. How to Whiten Teeth

45. Fix the Red Eye Problem

46. How to Use the History Brush to Restore a Picture

47. Correcting Slanted Pictures





MISCELLANEOUS

48. How to Crop in Perspective

49. How to Create Very Difficult Masks





AMAZING VISUAL EFFECTS

50. Creating Golden Texts

51. Creating Water Drops

52. Convert Your Pictures into Vintage Photographs

53. Create a Stormy Day out of a Sunny Day Picture

54. Colorizing a Black and White Picture

55. Creating Metal Texture

56. Creating Wood Texture





FANTASTIC 3D OBJECTS

57. Creating a Book Pages Texture

58. Creating a 3D Book from any regular picture (Part 1)

59. Creating a 3D Book from any regular picture (Part 2)

60. Creating a 3D Knife (Part 1)

61. Creating a 3D Knife (Part 2)

62. Creating a 3D Sphere

63. Creating a 3D Room





DOWNLOADABLE IMAGES

Almost 200 MB of downloadable images provided for free, including textures, images to be used to follow the lectures and images that show how we did it.





We believe in what we do. Start learning Photoshop now.

NO PREVIOUS KNOWLEDGE OF PHOTOSHOP IS REQUIRED.





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