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title: Adobe Photoshop
description: Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard software for raster image editing and digital art. You will master photo manipulation, compositing, digital painting, and color correction to create and refine professional visual assets.
category: arts-design
subcategory: graphic-design
difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced
url: /subject/adobe-photoshop
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# Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop is the industry-standard software for raster image editing and digital art. You will master photo manipulation, compositing, digital painting, and color correction to create and refine professional visual assets.

## Available Resources

3 Books • 3 Websites

## Websites

### 1. Photoshop Tutorials (Envato Tuts+)

A free tutorial library from Envato covering Photoshop techniques: photo retouching, compositing, text and photo effects, digital painting, and layer and masking workflows. Individual step-by-step walkthroughs written by working designers, each usable on its own rather than as a course.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://design.tutsplus.com/categories/adobe-photoshop

**Tags:** photoshop, photo-retouching, compositing, photo-effects, tutorials

### 2. Phlearn

Photoshop and Lightroom tutorial site with free videos and a paid pro library covering retouching, masking, compositing and colour work. Lessons are task-based, leaving you able to reproduce a specific edit on your own images.

**Difficulty:** Beginner | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://phlearn.com/

**Tags:** photoshop, lightroom, retouching, photo-editing

### 3. photoshopessentials.com

Photoshop Essentials is a tutorial site that teaches Photoshop through step-by-step guides and videos. It covers core skills such as photo editing, retouching, color correction, selections and masks, layers, and effects for beginner to advanced users.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free

**Link:** https://photoshopessentials.com

**Tags:** websites, arts-design, graphic-design

## Books

### 1. Photoshop CC Bible

**Author:** Lisa DaNae Dayley, Brad Dayley

A reference-style manual covering Photoshop CC end to end: interface and workspace setup, layers and masks, selections, colour management, retouching, filters, type, 3D and video layers, and automation. Suited to looking up specific features rather than reading through.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/1118643690?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design

### 2. Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book

**Author:** Adobe Creative Team

Adobe's official self-paced training series for its photo editor, structured as project chapters with downloadable lesson files. Working through them gives hands-on practice in selections, layers, masks, retouching, colour correction and output, following Adobe's own recommended workflow.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321811003?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design

### 3. The Photoshop Workbook

**Author:** Glyn Dewis

Six start-to-finish retouching and compositing projects from a commercial photographer, with downloadable images: character portraits, themed composites and landscapes. Shows the reasoning behind lighting, shadow and colour decisions, not just which Photoshop tool to reach for.

**Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid

**Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0134008464?tag=edmonddante07-20

**Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design

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