Photoshop for Beginners 2024 - Lesson One - Set Up (Free Class)
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- čas přidán 23. 07. 2024
- This is Lesson One of a multi-part series on learning Photoshop from the beginning. Follow along and learn how to use Adobe Photoshop with this totally free class!
Terry VanderHeiden is a professional photographer and has been using Photoshop from its inception He will start you on your way to learning the fabulous program for photography, art and graphic design.
Today's episode will take you step-by-step in setting up your program for the first time and how to set up your preferences in Photoshop 2024.
I've been using Photoshop (badly) since 1993 and sure wish I had your excellent instructional videos back then! Looking forward to the rest of your series. I will also add that your teaching style is excellent, clear and just the right pace. Other CZcamsrs talk so fast I need to cut the playback speed in half.
Well thank you for watching. I appreciate the kind words, I have lots more for you to learn! Thanks again!
Terry, thank you so much for taking the time to teach, I've learned so much from your videos. You explain everything in such detail. I'm learning more about LRC an PS than I ever have. Can't wait for your next video. I didn't get PS now I do.
Hi Jerome, You are very welcome I appreciate you watching, much more to come.
Finally getting to this series! This is awesome, Terry. Just fantastic
Thanks Jim, let me know if you have questions along the way.
Hello Terry, I just started to use/learn Photoshop and I am very glad and lucky that I landed at your Photoshop free classes on your CZcams channel. I really enjoyed listening to your explanation, very easy to understand and learn Photoshop in a proper way. I really appreciate your hard work to help many beginners like me. Thanks a ton!!!
Great to hear! That's what I was shooting for! Thanks for watching.
This is great! Looking forward to more. Thank you 🙏
Awesome, thank you!
Thank you Terry for all your help. This looks like a good series.
You are very welcome.
Thank you Terry!
You are very welcome!
Thank you so much for this series. The first lesson was very well done, I look forward to future lessons.
You're very welcome! They are on the way!
I have been slowly learning (and using) Photoshop for a couple years and I learned a number of things from this #1 video that I didn’t know! I just retired (yesterday!) and I plan on working my way through the entire series in the next couple days! I actually started with the layers lesson (A++) and now I’m committed to make it through the series. Fantastic teaching skills and information!!
Congratulations on the retirement. This program is well worth learning, though I would set aside some time do a little practice after each video, that is the best way to learn. Welcome to Photoshop!
This is gold! Thank you sir.
Glad you enjoyed it Jack!
Thank you so much for making this easy to understand video. I haven't used Photoshop since the early 2000's and have forgotten so much. I'm now getting back into image making after all these years and into Photoshop 2024. So much has changed since then and your video series is just what I need to reacquaint myself with this amazing program. Well done!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching, Shelley.
Hi Terry, Thanks for this excellent tutorial, I really appreciate the introduction to setup and the layout of Photoshop. Looking forward to progressing with the episodes.
You're very welcome Peter.
Great instruction thank you!
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
Thank you!
Thank YOU for watching.
Great tutorial ! this is that i need
Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.
Thanks!
Thank you Tom!
Best 2024 tutorial!
YES! I love it, thanks for watching.
Appreciate you brother Vander Heiden ....Vander Heiden sounds like a swedish metal band..ijs
Ha, the name is Dutch, I don't know about the metal band part.
I haven’t watched this video yet, but I’m recording it to take with me on a very long plane flight (16 1/2 hrs!)….If it’s at all the rest of your instructional videos it will be excellent. Thank you.
Sweet! Have a great trip. There will be more uploaded by the time you get back!
Been using PS for about 2yrs getting the hang of it with the help of CC like yourself, if you have learned anything new from Terry from watching this, it's worth a thumbs up and subscribe so it helps his channel, and it also helps others as the algorithm lets other users see his content. Thanks Terry for a nice guide to getting PS started the easy way. Liked & Subscribed
Thank you so much!!
Great video tutorial. Your explanations are nice and clear and easy to understand. Thank you very much for making these great tutorials available. I have completed Lesson 1 and I'm looking forward to working my way through all the others. 👍🏻
Glad they are working out for you Ray, I appreciate you watching.
I titally agree with the oistive comments here. As someone who has mostly just used Lightroom and admittedly probably not too well either, vut keen to dive in and get more creative using Lightroom in combination with Photoshop. Thanks again.
You will be glad you did. Thanks for watching.
Great video Terry, one question. How do you enable the "Select Subject" and "Remove Background" bar on the bottom of your screen?
That is called the Contextual Task Bar. You can find it at the bottom of the menu item Windows. Go to Menu Windows scroll to the bottom and turn it off or on right there. Thanks for watching.
Thanks for your reply. The layers palette seems to be incredibly difficult and that’s what I work with. Do you have a video that shows how to do them start to finish. Importing and opening multiple layers? Thanks.
Yes I do! I have two parts to info on layers, check those out and let me know what you think. czcams.com/video/PeD7uhc8R4U/video.html for part one and here is for part two: czcams.com/video/Ihu6Gd0Znc8/video.html
Hi Terry,
Thank you, for these video tutorials. I have a learnt a lot from them. I have a question. I am using Adobe Lightroom 7.3
When I open a photo from Lightroom to Photoshop, it always opens up in .tiff format. I dont know how to make it open in the RAW format. I have been looking around in lightroom to see if there is a way to change the format in which the photo is transferred to Photoshop, but I am not able to find it.
Is there a way to do this in Lightroom 7.3?
Lightroom? (mobile) or Lightroom Classic (for the desktop)? If you are talking about Lightroom Classic, then 7.3 is a pretty old version. They are on 13.3 at this point. There should be a way in settings inside Photoshop, where you can open an image in a format you like. Even today, you won't be able to work on a RAW image in photoshop but you can in Adobe Camera Raw - which is a separate program. Once you have done your RAW tweaking, then you can open it in Photoshop. Good luck!
Hi Terry
Maybe i missed something, but when I load up PS i don't have the image as a tab as you do. how can i get that?
Hi Gustav, If you are wondering how to set your workspace so that you don't have your windows in tabs, go to preferences (settings) > workspace > uncheck Open documents as Tabs. If this is not what you are looking for, send me an email with a time marker from the video and I can answer you that way by sending you a screen shot of my set up (I can't do screen grabs inside comments here.) Good luck!
I'm lost even starting as my edition of PS and LightRoom are not like what you are using. Also on my own I got lost trying to save the linear gradient I used on a practice photo. Any thoughts? Thank you.
If you are paying the monthly $10. Fee per month for the Adobe Photographer’s package, you can upgrade for free. That’s what I would do. Please check before you upgrade that your computer can handle the newest version of Photoshop just to be sure.
Otherwise, if you are working on a very old non- subscription version, you’re missing out on a LOT of new features.
I have the 2024 version of PS and Lightroom but they don't look anything like your screens. Your video mentioned starting using Lightroom and moving to PS. But mine does not look like what you're working with.
So I found Lightroom Classics and your video but I don't have all those gadgets to plug in so I cannot follow you, again.I got my photos from Desktop but need to see where I go from there. This is getting out of control from the get go.
Can photos be generated to vector for a cnc router?
That would be better done on Adobe Illustrator . Photoshop is primarily a raster (pixel ) processing program.
Great session except for you're working on a MAC and those of us on a PC some of the controls or options are located under different headings. It would be helpful to know where they are on a PC. Saves a lot of time searching for the correct items. Thanks
Sorry about that, I will work harder to get those shortcuts out in both PC and Mac. Thanks for the heads up!
Hey Terry. I installed Ps, but all of the dropdown options in my toolbar are locked. It looks like it's some kind of tutorial thing where they expect you to watch videos before you can gradually unlock each feature. Do you know how to disable that, so that I can follow along with your course instead?
Hi Bruce, try unchecking the "Show Tooltips" button. Remember to click OK to confirm. See if that helps.
@@tv510 that made the videos disappear, but I still can't use the dropdown to select one of the tools in the group. I'm guessing it's because I said I had zero experience with Adobe Ps, so they dumbed it down for me. Maybe I'll reinstall and claim to be an expert.
@tv510 I found the problem. I was using left-click and apparently Adobe oddly uses right-click to expand the flyout.
@@BruceWayne15325 You should only have to click on the little tiny arrow in the lower right corner of each tool to get the fly out. Glad you found something that works. It will get better, stay with it.
@@tv510 yeah for some reason the tiny arrow doesn't work, but it's all good. Right-click works at least.
Hello Terry:
I am having a problem with this tutorial. I am thinking that this is an Adobe problem, I use a desktop PC, Windows 11, 32Gb RAM. According to the Creative Cloud my Photoshop is up to date (V25.6.0) as is my Lightroom Classic (V13.2). When I follow accessing Photoshop by way of Lightroom I hit a brick wall. The option I get is 'Open in Photoshop 2023'; not 2024. When Photoshop opens up it looks quite a bit different, doen't say 2024 at the top for example. I uninistalled Lightroom Classic and reinstalled it thinking/hoping it would clear the problem. No luck. Looking for any suggestions.
Cheers,
Will
Hi Will, I'm always happy to answer questions, and this one in particular, because it's one I know. In Lightroom Preferences go to the External Editing Tab. You have a choice as to which version of Photoshop you want to edit in. Simply choose the version you like from the pull down menu. On the section down from that, you can add a second option for something else or even Photoshop Beta. Good luck!
@@tv510 Hello Terry:
Thank you. That certainly was quick.
Cheers,
Will
@@willreichelt2564 I aim to offer top notch customer service with my CZcams channel. ( HA) I just went through that with someone else recently so it was fresh in my mind. Have fun.
Hey Terry! Wow! Thank you. I've been using PSD for a long time-like when you had to buy the CD-rom's. LOL. I actually created all the illustrations for my book using PSD on a laptop. I moved away from it for a long time and for whatever reason, the program feels like it has changed a lot!!! In some ways I'm starting as a beginner, but so much is familiar still and your video was great. You're a fantastic teacher. I truly appreciate these tutorials, it takes a lot of time to make them, I know as I make videos as well. This will be a great refresher and reintroduction to PSD.
So cool to hear that Sheri. They keep improving it so I think it's worth keeping up on it. Welcome back.
As a Windows users, the Settings is under "Edit/Preferences".
Thanks Tom, as a Mac user, I might have missed a few of those PC shortcuts too, thanks for letting me (and others) know.
If you want to delete your work space like laptop how do you do it
In the pull down menu, go down a bit, there is an option to delete workspace. Thanks for watching.
sir, is it possible to give us sample photo.?
I have finally set up a system for that. Any new Photoshop/Lightroom videos should have sample images you can download.
here is a photoshop lesson one, alright, lets start with light room. lol
Ha, I want to bring viewers in …slowly.