Become a Photoshop Expert in a Day by Mastering Layers

Master Photoshop by understanding layers to create stunning effects and composites. Updated with AI tools and taught in simple, clear English.

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Brief Summary

This course is all about mastering layers in Photoshop! You'll learn how to create, manage, and blend layers to make awesome photo effects. With all the latest AI tools and a friendly guide, you won't just learn; you'll have fun doing it!

Key Points

  • Understanding and creating different types of layers
  • Using adjustment layers for non-destructive edits
  • Layer blending techniques for cool effects
  • Special layers like type masks and video editing layers
  • New AI tools introduced in Photoshop 2023

Learning Outcomes

  • Become confident in creating and manipulating layers
  • Refine and enhance images using adjustment layers
  • Create stunning image composites with ease
  • Master time-saving shortcuts for workflow efficiency
  • Utilize new AI tools to enhance your creativity

About This Course

To be an expert and create cool effects, you need a strong understanding of layers. Course updated June 2023.

  Do you want to know more Photoshop techniques than just cropping and resizing? The key to getting the most out of Photoshop is understanding how to create and manipulate different types of layers. Learn how to composite pictures, make non-destructive adjustments and corrections, and blend images to create cool effects. All project files are included, and the course is in plain, jargon-free, understandable English.  It's been updated to include the new artificial intelligence tools in the 2023 version.

  I will take you step-by-step through exercises, introduce you to key concepts and give you many time-saving shortcuts. It is taught by an expert instructor and published author who has been teaching Photoshop since 1995. If you have questions about anything in the course, you can contact him on his web site. At an intermediate level, this course should take you one day to complete on either a PC or Macintosh.

  Topics you will learn include:

  • Several techniques to create layers

  • What adjustment layers are and how to use them

  • Special layers like type masks, layer masks, fill layers and video editing layers

  • Layer blending

  • Managing and searching layers of different types

  • How to use multiple artboards

  • New artificial intelligence tools in Photoshop 2023


  • Learn to be a Photoshop expert! Create, use, and modify different types of layers. Get the strong background necessary to create image composites and effects.

  • Exercise control over images using layer masks

  • Refine images with adjustment layers

Course Curriculum

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Bob Flisser

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Bob Flisser is a skilled instructor known for providing valuable insights and expert guidance to learners seeking to enhance their knowledge and skills.

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4.9 course rating
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John J.
4.5
8 months ago

covered somethings about layers that I hadn't seen in other tutorials.

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Anton J.
4.5
8 months ago

very clear lectures

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Debbie W.
5.0
1 year ago

easy to follow so far....thank you

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Bill B.
5.0
2 years ago

I'm enjoying this course.
This course starts simple and builds and is so easy to understand. Having a great time.

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Jerry F.
5.0
4 years ago

Using the App I cannot remove the list of contents of this course form the right hand side during the video. Also..... impossible to load in Safari on my i- pad but it will load on my i-phone. This is only recently the case, though. Very annoying.

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John S. W.
3.5
5 years ago

So far I have one complaint with the teaching. The constant interruptions during a lesson to tell us about shortcuts and other methods to do something, while I'm just trying to grasp the basic steps in a lesson.
This cause me to lose focus and and gets me off track and forcing me to keep pausing and replaying the tracks just to learn the lesson topic.
I feel it would be much better if the short cuts were taught in a single lesson, and the "other" methods to do the same effect taught at the end of each lesson.
It's extremely difficult for me to keep notes when in the middle of a sentence you start telling us about various shortcuts.
Because of the way I have to learn things, and due to the trouble I'm having with the above mentioned, I'm not sure I'll want to finish the course. I find it quite frustrating.
I would see nothing wrong with the teaching and quality of this course if not for the above issues.
Thank you,
John

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Martien A.
4.5
6 years ago

De instructeur klinkt alsof het erg makkelijk, soms moet je moeilijke handelingen wel een paar keer zien ! Daarna klopt het uitstekend, en hou je het beter in gedachten, en denkt toch makkelaar !

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Ahsan L.
4.0
7 years ago

Good and easy way to learn

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Michael G.
4.0
7 years ago

Great course. I learned a lot. There is so much to Photoshop that covering it A-Z would be unwieldly but this course is great for someone with some PS experience.

Complaint: I asked a question that wasn't answered.
"How did you create the alpha channel for the cat in Section 2, #8?"
Not a problem. Many how-to's available.

Also, I had a problem with Section 5 Question 3:
"When you apply a gradient to a layer mask of a layer that has a blend mode applied, the effect will be as though some areas have a different opacity than other areas."
I chose False. The correct answer is True. Applying a gradient to a Layer mask was covered in Section 4; not 5. However, I believe the word, "Opacity," is subjective in this case.

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Graphics G.
5.0
7 years ago

I thought that the instructor was terrific and I have learned more from this course than any other I have ever taken on PS6.

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