I feel like I now have a good, basic knowledge of Photoshop and approach the online tutorials so much differently than before! 😀 Thank you! I looked forward each week to the practice sessions at the end of each level! I needed a break from the ‘this does this and that does that’, which can be tedious but necessary.
Aaron, you did a great job of making it interesting, thorough and focusing on application.
#Adobe photoshop 101 pdf series
I bought the series and spent the past three weeks completing the lessons, a week on each level. Topics like ‘layer masks’ and ‘adjustment layers’ are really confusing to read about or are so fundamental that they’re just glazed over on advanced level online tutorials. That was alright, but I recognized that I needed to build a solid foundation.
#Adobe photoshop 101 pdf free
I started with library books and free online tutorials. I decided to do something about that recently. I would describe myself as a novice to Photoshop - only popping in occasionally to change a photo to black and white or to create a rough composite. One final technical issue I had is that the project files they provide already had the changes made, which made them completely useless for following along with. Obviously a lot of people have had success with this teaching, but unfortunately it wasn’t right for me.
Rather than, for example, 25 minutes looking at every possible variation on the brush tool before I’ve ever really used that tool in a project. Then gradually you work on bigger and more complicated projects learning tools and procedures as you go. I would have preferred a project-based learning system where you work on a simple project which introduces the most basic tools and features. It would be like teaching you to cook by spending 30 minutes on all the different spatulas, then 30 minutes on the whisks, and so on.
Then you’re on to another tool, then another. Instead it begins with a deep dive into each individual tool showing the dozen different things each tool can do, but not with any goal in mind, just explaining the tool. I was hoping for a step-by-step guide where we would learn by doing, starting from a blank slate. Simply wasn’t for me and didn’t work for my learning style. If you haven’t tried this course you really should.
I found it really pulled together the things I had learned in the first 7 lessons and also the ideas I had learned using the free tutorials and in fact I can now appreciate them even more.
#Adobe photoshop 101 pdf full
And then finishes with a photo that he walks you through the full edit using all the main tools and concepts covered from layers, to masks, brushes to cropping, colour changes to retouching. The shortcuts, the pros and cons, the gotcha’s. Why? Because Aaron doesn’t put you to sleep, he shows on photos what they can do, should do and you might not really want them to do. Further to walk through every single one of them, sometimes in great detail, others less so because they are either not really applicable to photo editing or are covered in gory detail in a whole other offering is pretty amazing. Consider that when you open PS you are confronted with 3 main screen areas, 28 tools and 10 top level (and I can’t be bothered to count the submenus) menus it is pretty overwhelming. Just finished the last lesson in Photoshop 101.
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