Photoshop Bootcamp: Learn Photoshop
If you want to learn Photoshop, you’re in the right place.
Read free Photoshop tutorials and lessons from Jennifer Farley, designer and educator, with 15 years of experience teaching Adobe Photoshop.
Learn how to edit photographs and create new images and graphics in Photoshop with step by step tutorials.
Photoshop Guides & Tutorials For Beginners
Below you’ll find free step by step Photoshop tips, tutorials, and guides to help you learn Photoshop.
Photoshop Bootcamp Guide To The Workspace
If you’re a complete beginner, this is the best place to start. In this section, you’ll find tutorials on how to open files in Photoshop, how to create new files, how to use tools and panels, how to navigate - zoom and pan.
Learn more with this full guide to the Photoshop Workspace.

Beginners Guide To Making Selections In Photoshop
A selection lets us isolate part of an image. Once a selection is made, only that part of the image will be affected when we edit it. Photoshop provides several tools and functions to make it easy to make selections.
Find out more about Photoshop’s selection tools here.
Free Photoshop CC Toolbar Cheat Sheet
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Photoshop Bootcamp Guide To Transformations
In Photoshop, we can scale, rotate, skew, distort, apply perspective, or warp any object or layer that we select. We can also flip vertically and horizontally, repeat transformations and duplicate as we transform.
Read more about Photoshop transformations.
Guide To Cropping And Resizing In Photoshop
There’s a few ways we can crop photos and images in Photoshop. Cropping lets us hide or delete parts of the image. This is a good way to create a focus in a photo. You can also change the size of your images.
Learn more about cropping, straightening and resizing in Photoshop.
Beginners Guide To Layers In Photoshop
Layers are the bread and butter of Photoshop. They are absolutely essential when creating new compositions, illustrations and designs.
Follow along in a step by step guide to using Layers in Photoshop.
Photoshop Bootcamp Guide To Layer Masks
Once you understand and can use Layers, the next logical step is to learn how to use Layer Masks. They allow us to combine images seamlessly and hide parts of images without actually deleting any pixels.
Read more about Layer Masks here.
Basics of Repairing & Retouching
Photoshop is renowned for its retouching tools. In this guide, I’ll show you how to use retouching tools to heal, repair, clone, change colours and more.
Read the guide to retouching for beginners.
Guide To Photoshop Adjustment Layers
Adjustment layers in Photoshop allow us to make all kinds of tonal and colour adjustments to images, without actually damaging or changing the original pixels in the photo.
Check out this beginners guide to adjustment layers.
Beginners Guide To Adobe Camera Raw
Camera Raw is the photographer’s friend. It lets us make super quick edits to photographs. Those edits are completely reversible and changeable.
Read the Photoshop Beginners Guide To Camera Raw.

Photoshop Bootcamp Guide To Working With Type
Photoshop’s Type tools have been improving with every version. I’ll show you how to use them efficiently and how to create some really cool type effects.
Read the guide to Working With Type in Photoshop.
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