PS for Beginners: Photo Editing & Poster Design Mastery
Course Duration: 12 Hours
Suitable Crowd: Design newbies, content creators, small business owners, students, and anyone who wants to create stunning visuals for work or personal use—no prior Photoshop experience required
Have you ever stared at a blurry photo and wished you could make it look professional?
Are you tired of relying on generic templates for social media posts or business posters?
Do you want to master a practical design skill that can help you create eye-catching visuals for your brand, portfolio, or daily life?
This PS for Beginners: Photo Editing & Poster Design Mastery video course is your gateway to the world of Adobe Photoshop—the industry-standard tool for photo editing and graphic design. In just 12 hours of step-by-step, hands-on teaching, we’ll take you from someone who doesn’t know how to open Photoshop to a confident designer who can edit photos like a pro and create stunning posters from scratch. No complicated jargon, no skipped steps—just easy-to-follow lessons that focus on practical skills you can use immediately.
What You Will Master in This Course
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Photoshop Basics: Lay the Foundation for Design
Get familiar with the Photoshop interface and core tools without feeling overwhelmed:
- Interface Navigation: Master the workspace layout—menus, toolbars, layers panel, and adjustment panels—so you can find any function in seconds.
- Core Tool Operation: Learn to use essential tools for photo editing and design:
- Selection tools (lasso, quick selection, magic wand) to isolate and edit specific parts of an image.
- Retouching tools (clone stamp, healing brush) to remove blemishes, wrinkles, or unwanted objects from photos.
- Cropping & resizing tools to adjust image dimensions for social media (Instagram, Facebook, TikTok) or print (posters, flyers).
- Layers Fundamentals: Understand layers—the most important concept in Photoshop. Learn to create, hide, lock, and merge layers to edit images non-destructively (so you never ruin your original photo).
- Practical Exercise: Edit a personal photo—remove blemishes, adjust brightness/contrast, and resize it for a social media profile picture.
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Professional Photo Editing Skills: Transform Ordinary Photos into Stunning Shots
Learn to fix common photo problems and enhance images to make them pop:
- Color Correction & Enhancement: Use adjustment layers (curves, levels, hue/saturation) to fix overexposed/underexposed photos, adjust skin tones, and make colors more vibrant.
- Portrait Retouching: Master beginner-friendly portrait editing techniques—smooth skin naturally, whiten teeth, brighten eyes, and remove red-eye without making photos look fake.
- Background Removal & Replacement: Learn to cut out subjects from complex backgrounds (e.g., a person standing in front of a busy street) and replace them with a new background (e.g., a beach or a city skyline).
- Creative Photo Effects: Add popular effects to your photos—vintage filters, black-and-white conversions, and soft focus—to create a unique style.
- Practical Exercise: Turn a dull, overexposed travel photo into a vibrant, professional-looking shot ready for social media or a photo album.
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Poster Design Mastery: Create Eye-Catching Posters from Scratch
Apply your Photoshop skills to real-world design projects and create posters that stand out:
- Poster Design Principles: Learn basic design rules—layout, typography, color matching—to ensure your posters are visually balanced and easy to read.
- Step-by-Step Poster Creation: Build 3 different types of posters from scratch, covering common real-world scenarios:
- Event Poster: Design a concert or workshop poster with custom text, images, and decorative elements.
- Product Poster: Create a promotional poster for a small business (e.g., a coffee shop or a handmade jewelry store) to attract customers.
- Social Media Poster: Design a eye-catching Instagram or Facebook poster for a sale or a giveaway, optimized for mobile screens.
- Text & Shape Design: Learn to add and style text (fonts, sizes, colors, effects), and use shape tools to create custom borders, icons, and decorative elements.
- Practical Exercise: Design a complete promotional poster for your own brand or a fictional event, and export it in print-ready and digital formats.