Photoshop has gained immense popularity due to its ease of use and enormous possibilities. Even if you are not a photographer, designer, web developer, knowledge of this program definitely will not hurt you.
Instructions
Step 1
Buy the "Photoshop for Dummies" book. To learn Photoshop, at the initial level it will be quite enough, especially if combined with video tutorials, but more on that later. This book describes the basic techniques for working with graphics, photographs, and drawings. What an ordinary user of a personal computer may need to do with photographs: cut out a fragment, combine two images, correct brightness and contrast, add some kind of frame, etc. The above book will help you learn all these simple techniques, which then, having gained enough experience, you can transform into more complex manipulations.
Step 2
Download video tutorials to learn Photoshop. In these lessons you will find a demonstration of the application of the basic techniques of the program. You will be shown the sequence of actions for performing one or another manipulation with the image.
Step 3
Look for video tutorials for beginners to start learning Photoshop from scratch, or tutorials for advanced users if you already have certain skills with this graphics editor. To help you learn well, repeat the examples above yourself several times. Try not to blindly follow the instructions, but to combine, improvise. Then these lessons will be good for you.
Step 4
Sign up for a Photoshop course. Finding them will not be more difficult than courses on training in e-bookkeeping. There is no shortage of computer academies right now.
Step 5
Search for suitable courses on the Internet, then navigate in the area to find out the cost, time of classes, whether they provide any certificate at the end of the training, indicating your level of qualifications, etc. Courses are the most effective way to learn Photoshop. If something is not clear to you, the teacher will immediately give answers to all questions and help you sort out difficult moments.
