Adobe Photoshop for Photo Editing and Retouching

Gain full mastery of the most useful and powerful tools in Adobe Photoshop, the best software for professional photo editing. Learn how to take full advantage of your images with Daniel Arranz, professional photographer and certified Adobe expert, who in this course will teach you in-depth and from scratch how to use layers, selections, channels, and masks like a pro.

In the first course, start by defining what digital photography is, see why it is so important to develop your images and assign them a color space and bit depth, and take your first steps in Photoshop, learning how to use layers.

In the second course, learn how to use the selection tools and get to work on the layer masks with the brush tool and the gradient tool until you achieve great precision.

In the third course, master the level adjustment and curve layers, then learn how blending modes work for performing complex processing, and learn how to use the Dodge and Burn tools.

In the fourth course, discover what channels are and how to use them for complicated selections, find out how color is represented in Photoshop, and master the luminosity masks for highlights, shadows, and mid-tones.

In the fifth course, learn how to modify skies, make elements disappear with the help of other images, remove halos from a photograph and, finally, prepare your images for printing or for online publication.