Welcome to the complete beginners guide to Adobe Photoshop. In this series we will be starting from the very beginning and working our way across 33 episodes to learn all the basics and create a project from scratch To help break down the process I have structured the course in three main sections:

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Essential practice

Section 3 - Create a project

Along the way we will be covering many topics, such as how to set up your document, using common tools, creating a project and finally exporting work ready for print and web. After watching this series you will be able to create your very own artwork in Photoshop ready for print and digital use.

In Photoshop there is a smart way of working with images to help maintain quality and a well organized document. For this it helps to use Smart objects. In this video tutorial I am going to be discussing the use of smart objects. I’ll be discussing why we use them and how to build them into a composition.

As you start to get creative you may wish to add type to you compositions. In Photoshop we have the type tool. With all the creative capabilities in Photoshop you have a huge potential to be creative with type.

In this tutorial we are going to be looking at the Type tool. I will be discussing the basic principles of how it works and then we can have a go at creating some examples.