Photoshop for Beginners 2024 - Lesson One - Set Up (Free Class)

[@1duesy]

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 KZbinrs talk so fast I need to cut the playback speed in half.

[@tv510]

Well thank you for watching. I appreciate the kind words, I have lots more for you to learn! Thanks again!

[@jeromehutchinson1961]

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.

[@tv510]

Hi Jerome, You are very welcome I appreciate you watching, much more to come.

[@Opowiesci_Wojenne]

Extremely helpful ! Thx very much !

[@tv510]

Glad it helped!

[@kevfrets]

This is great! Looking forward to more. Thank you 🙏

[@tv510]

Awesome, thank you!

[@pedrogaston]

At last!!! A good teacher! Thanks.

[@tv510]

Glad it was helpful! Thank YOU for watching.

[@P.G.MacNeil]

Thanks so much! Very easy to follow, you are a great instructor.

[@tv510]

You're very welcome!

[@jackkelley890]

This is gold! Thank you sir.

[@tv510]

Glad you enjoyed it Jack!

[@jimdodson4100]

Thank you Terry for all your help. This looks like a good series.

[@tv510]

You are very welcome.

[@peterhamilton8913]

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.

[@tv510]

You're very welcome Peter.

[@kenbrooks5555]

23:12 Excellent video which provides clear easy to follow instruction for Photoshop. Thank you

[@tv510]

You're welcome! Thanks for watching.

[@daisycruz7646]

thank you so much , i love the way you explaine everything, so easy detail by detail. you are the best :)

[@tv510]

You're very welcome Daisy!

[@sadashivaswamy3106]

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 KZbin 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!!!

[@tv510]

Great to hear! That's what I was shooting for! Thanks for watching.

[@holtlewis2617]

Thank you so much for this series. The first lesson was very well done, I look forward to future lessons.

[@tv510]

You're very welcome! They are on the way!

[@timmytee734]

I watched younger guys vidoes and they were more like show off vodeos of their knowledge than tutorials. You know how to teach and what to teach to beginners. Thank you Sir!

[@tv510]

Wow, thanks! I appreciate the kind words.

[@ShelleyRankin-im6ss]

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!

[@tv510]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching, Shelley.

[@bsacamano]

Finally getting to this series! This is awesome, Terry. Just fantastic

[@tv510]

Thanks Jim, let me know if you have questions along the way.

[@tomwilliams5215]

Thanks!

[@tv510]

Thank you Tom!

[@stanburman9978]

Thank you Terry!

[@tv510]

You are very welcome!

[@johnfitzgerald6294]

"Practice" - No better advice! Great video! I look forward to the rest of the series.

[@tv510]

Awesome, thanks for watching.

[@rosaliebocelli6082]

Excellent class Mr. Terry. Great teaching.

[@tv510]

Thank you!

[@tomwilliams5215]

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.

[@tv510]

Sweet! Have a great trip. There will be more uploaded by the time you get back!

[@dintensity9501]

you got a subscriber! you video is down to the detail and I am understanding every single bit of it! thank you so much for the great content!

[@tv510]

Thanks for the sub!

[@shakeandbake9562]

Great instruction thank you!

[@tv510]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

[@CatherineMellonArts]

Thanks for these! I've been trying to edit photos of my art in order to make prints and finally feel like I understand why I've been struggling!

[@tv510]

Happy to help Catherine. Photos of art is not as easy as one might think. Good luck!

[@CatherineMellonArts]

​@@tv510 definitely not! 😂

[@olujideakinbo5094]

Thanks Terry. I just finished certificate program in photography through eCornell and this tutorials will help a lot with editing. Your teaching style is fantastic! very good pace.

[@tv510]

Thank you I appreciate that.

[@fasuego]

Great tutorial ! this is that i need

[@tv510]

Glad it was helpful! Thanks for watching.

[@sherigaynorcreativeawakenings]

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.

[@tv510]

So cool to hear that Sheri. They keep improving it so I think it's worth keeping up on it. Welcome back.

[@raylynch8419]

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. 👍🏻

[@tv510]

Glad they are working out for you Ray, I appreciate you watching.

[@andrewlamberson539]

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!!

[@tv510]

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!

[@PaulBaughmanDO]

Thank you so much for taking the time to make these videos. I’ve watched them again and again and again. And as a fun fact, my dog absolutely loves your voice. He has separation anxiety, and surprisingly your videos are one of the few things that help calm him down. Jack Jack says thank you as well, though he hasn’t picked up Photoshop as quickly as I would like.

[@tv510]

HI Paul, Jack Jack is a good boy and I appreciate the kind words!

[@nguyenthanhhai8306]

Hello! Thank you for teaching free photoshop! Do you have the photo in this video. I want to practice the same photo so it's easy for me to remember. Thank you so much!

[@tv510]

Sorry, no but in later episode I do include a link to images. Here is where you can find what is offered: imagelight.com/free-downloads

[@nguyenthanhhai8306]

@@tv510 Thank you so much!

[@michaelhagan854]

Thanks so much!

[@tv510]

You're welcome!

[@jimstueck8428]

Best 2024 tutorial!

[@tv510]

YES! I love it, thanks for watching.

[@rosebowe]

Hello Terry, I just discovered your tutorials for Photoshop for Beginners 2024! I am so excited and hopeful that this old dog can learn new tricks! Do you have downloads to work along with you during these lessons?

[@tv510]

Yes, in some of the later episodes I do. As well as going forward.

[@kvfrank]

Great video Terry, one question. How do you enable the "Select Subject" and "Remove Background" bar on the bottom of your screen?

[@tv510]

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.

[@antondymkovych6150]

Thank you!

[@tv510]

Thank YOU for watching.

[@sherigaynorcreativeawakenings]

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.

[@tv510]

Yes I do! I have two parts to info on layers, check those out and let me know what you think. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hpanaKiemJ2Farc for part one and here is for part two: kzbin.info/www/bejne/f5nYZ3qaZb-hmZo

[@martinam7374]

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.

[@tv510]

You will be glad you did. Thanks for watching.

[@BalajiVaradharajan-qh7vc]

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?

[@tv510]

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!

[@branchau]

@@tv510 It is quite misleading in my view to call Adobe Camera Raw a separate program. It is part of Photoshop, accessible through this menu: Filter/ Camera Raw filter. It is also accessible through Adobe Bridge.

[@tv510]

@@branchau I have no intention of misleading anyone. However, Adobe considers it a separate program, so I just went with how they categorize it. Thanks!

[@branchau]

@@tv510 I have found no Adobe Web site describing Adobe Photo Raw as a separate program. Have you? If so, which one.

[@tv510]

@@branchau I read it years ago when they introduced Adobe Camera raw. Also, it loads as a separate app in the update system Adobe manager.

[@adejones2340]

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

[@tv510]

Thank you so much!!

[@ZahneyDesigns]

Can photos be generated to vector for a cnc router?

[@tv510]

That would be better done on Adobe Illustrator . Photoshop is primarily a raster (pixel ) processing program.

[@BruceWayne15325]

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?

[@tv510]

Hi Bruce, try unchecking the "Show Tooltips" button. Remember to click OK to confirm. See if that helps.

[@BruceWayne15325]

@@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.

[@BruceWayne15325]

@tv510 I found the problem. I was using left-click and apparently Adobe oddly uses right-click to expand the flyout.

[@tv510]

@@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.

[@BruceWayne15325]

@@tv510 yeah for some reason the tiny arrow doesn't work, but it's all good. Right-click works at least.

[@YourBrandDead]

Appreciate you brother Vander Heiden ....Vander Heiden sounds like a swedish metal band..ijs

[@tv510]

Ha, the name is Dutch, I don't know about the metal band part.

[@juliobarkan9529]

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

[@tv510]

Sorry about that, I will work harder to get those shortcuts out in both PC and Mac. Thanks for the heads up!

[@michaelhagan854]

quick question...when I open my image, it does not have the "select subject" or "remove background". What am I missing?

[@tv510]

You need to have a tool highlighted that can offer that. Try one of the selection tools. It will appear.

[@michaelhagan854]

Well, I can certainly get to those tools, but in your tutorial, you have a couple of options at the bottom of the image. I can’t make those options show up. If you could give me one more shot at this, I will figure it out. Thank you so much.

[@tv510]

@@michaelhagan854 try the contextual task bar. I just recently released a video all about it.

[@michaelhagan854]

What a wonderful tool and answered my questions. I so appreciate your patience as we try to learn Photoshop!

[@bonnyherman9196]

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.

[@tv510]

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.

[@bonnyherman9196]

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.

[@bonnyherman9196]

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.

[@gustavhulgaard1805]

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?

[@tv510]

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!

[@stizzy76]

i did this tutorial thinking i was gonna fix my artboard layout. now ive lost my adjustments. how do i fix this

[@tv510]

When you make art board changes or in the case of Photoshop, workspaces, you can save the workspace. That way you can flip between workspaces easily. There is default workspace if you need to start over. Its found under Windows>Workspace

[@willreichelt2564]

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

[@tv510]

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!

[@willreichelt2564]

@@tv510 Hello Terry: Thank you. That certainly was quick. Cheers, Will

[@tv510]

@@willreichelt2564 I aim to offer top notch customer service with my KZbin channel. ( HA) I just went through that with someone else recently so it was fresh in my mind. Have fun.

[@anthonydestefano4939]

If you want to delete your work space like laptop how do you do it

[@tv510]

In the pull down menu, go down a bit, there is an option to delete workspace. Thanks for watching.

[@tommul6078]

As a Windows users, the Settings is under "Edit/Preferences".

[@tv510]

Thanks Tom, as a Mac user, I might have missed a few of those PC shortcuts too, thanks for letting me (and others) know.

[@scottsinnott2636]

I followed along carefully but when I draw on layer 1, it shows up on the background layer in the layers panel. Why is that happening? I verified that I was drawing in layer 1 by changing visibility.

[@tv510]

Be sure to make sure at the top you are working on ALL layers. That might help.

[@scottsinnott2636]

@@tv510 Thanks for the reply. I found out that when I selected a photo from Lightroom to edit in Photoshop, it open an older version of photoshop. Things are going better for me know that I am working in photoshop 2024.

[@tv510]

@@scottsinnott2636 Yes, inside of LRC you need to assign which version of Photoshop you want to work with. It's easy to change out if for instance you want to try the BETA version for while. Take care,

[@zaidiusa1159]

sir, is it possible to give us sample photo.?

[@tv510]

I have finally set up a system for that. Any new Photoshop/Lightroom videos should have sample images you can download.

[@tbonex9x]

here is a photoshop lesson one, alright, lets start with light room. lol

[@tv510]

Ha, I want to bring viewers in …slowly.