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

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.

[duesy]

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

[jeromehutchinson]

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.

[sadashivaswamy]

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 YouTube 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!!!

[andrewlamberson]

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!!

[ShelleyRankin-imss]

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!

[kevfrets]

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

[tomwilliams]

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.

[bsacamano]

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

[adejones]

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

[peterhamilton]

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.

[raylynch]

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. 👍🏻

[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.

[holtlewis]

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

[jimdodson]

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

[martinam]

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.

[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.

[stevenwessel]

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

[BalajiVaradharajan-qhvc]

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?

[kvfrank]

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

[juliobarkan]

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