Certificate in Adobe Photoshop

• Course Overview and Learning Expectations
• Getting Started with Adobe Photoshop
• Understanding Colour Tools and Colour Selection
• Using the Move Tool
• Using the Frame, Crop and Eyedropper Tools
• Working with Selection Tools
• Brushes and Layer Fundamentals Part 1
• Layer Management Part 2
• Healing and Adjustment Tools
• Working with the Text Tool
• Working with the Pen Tool
• Using the Actions Panel
• Creating Custom Brushes and Patterns
• Creating Basic Animation in Photoshop

• Portrait Editing Fundamentals
• Introduction to Camera Raw
• Editing Images with Camera Raw
• High-End Portrait Retouching
• Digital Makeup for Portraits
• Creating 3D Portrait Effects
• Creating Studio Background Effects
• Changing Colours in Images
• Golden Hour and Blue Hour Colour Effects
• Editing Landscape Images for Social Media
• Creating Neon Sign Effects
• Removing Subjects from Images
• Sky Replacement Techniques
• Using the Sky Replacement Tool
• Changing Object Colours
• Introduction to Smart Composition Tools
• Creating Photo Compositions
• Applying Text to Surfaces
• Restoring Old Portraits
• Colourising Old Photos
• Restoring Overexposed Portraits
• Neural Filters Overview

• Poster Design Principles
• Logo Design Fundamentals
• Colour Theory for Design
• Business Card Design
• Instagram Post Design
• Instagram Story Design
• Food Poster Design
• Applying Patterns to Surfaces
• Logo Design Workflow
• Creating Line-Based Logos
• Brand Identity Design Part 1
• Brand Identity Design Part 2
• Brand Identity Design Part 3
• Creating Brand Guidelines

• Drawing with Shapes and the Pen Tool
• Colouring Digital Illustrations
• Creating 2D Vector Landscapes
• Flat Illustration Techniques
• Creating 3D-Style Illustrations
• Watercolour Illustration Effects
• Creating Textured Storybook Illustrations

• Introduction to Mockups and Geometric Design
• Understanding Smart Objects
• Creating Basic Mockups
• Creating Full-Screen Mockups
• Creating Geometric Mockups
• Linked Files and Warping Part 1
• Linked Files and Warping Part 2
• Creating Fabric Mockups
• Creating Reusable Templates
• Finding and Using Design Templates
• Intermediate Geometric Design Techniques
• Creating Mockups with the Warp Tool
• Creating Metallic Logo Effects Part 1
• Creating Metallic Logo Effects Part 2
• Creating Mockups from Everyday Objects Part 1
• Creating Mockups from Everyday Objects Part 2
• Creating Mockups from Everyday Objects Part 3
• Creating Screen Mockups
• Soda Can Mockups and Gradient Effects
• Creating Complex Shapes Part 1
• Creating Complex Shapes Part 2
• Presenting Design Work Part 1
• Presenting Design Work Part 2
• Preparing Design Work for Sale Part 1
• Preparing Design Work for Sale Part 2

• Patterns and Brushes Part 1
• Patterns and Brushes Part 2
• Creating Weather Elements Part 1
• Creating Weather Elements Part 2
• Using Generative AI in Photoshop
• Applying Texture Effects
• Green Screen Editing Part 1
• Green Screen Editing Part 2
• Textured Poster Practice Part 1
• Textured Poster Practice Part 2
• Channel Separation Effects Part 1
• Channel Separation Effects Part 2
• Face Manipulation Techniques Part 1
• Face Manipulation Techniques Part 2
• Face Manipulation Techniques Part 3
• Face Manipulation Techniques Part 4
• Face Manipulation Techniques Part 5
• Face Manipulation Techniques Part 6
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 1
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 2
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 3
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 4
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 5
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 6
• Slice Effect Techniques Part 7

• Developing Creative Composition Ideas
• Composition Practice Exercise 1 Part 1
• Composition Practice Exercise 1 Part 2
• Composition Practice Exercise 1 Part 3
• Composition Practice Exercise 2 Part 1
• Composition Practice Exercise 2 Part 2
• Composition Practice Exercise 2 Part 3
• Composition Practice Exercise 2 Part 4
• Advanced Composition Practice Part 1
• Advanced Composition Practice Part 2
• Advanced Composition Practice Part 3
• Advanced Composition Practice Part 4
• Advanced Composition Practice Part 5
• Advanced Composition Practice Part 6

• Skin Smoothing Techniques Part 1
• Skin Smoothing Techniques Part 2
• Advanced Neural Filters Part 1
• Advanced Neural Filters Part 2
• Creating Glow Effects Part 1
• Creating Glow Effects Part 2
• Applying Digital Makeup Part 1
• Applying Digital Makeup Part 2
• Creating Gold and Silver Effects Part 1
• Creating Gold and Silver Effects Part 2
• Creating Render Elements: Trees
• Creating Render Elements: Fire
• Creating Render Elements: Clouds and Rain
• Liquify Tool Overview
• Liquify Practice Part 1
• Liquify Practice Part 2
• Liquify Practice Part 3
• Puppet Warp Techniques Part 1
• Puppet Warp Techniques Part 2
• Changing Backgrounds Part 1
• Changing Backgrounds Part 2
• Digital Hair Replacement Part 1
• Digital Hair Replacement Part 2
• Digital Hair Removal Part 1
• Digital Hair Removal Part 2

• 3D Design Overview Part 1
• 3D Design Overview Part 2
• Creating 3D Text
• Creating 3D Shapes
• Creating Reflective Materials Part 1
• Creating Reflective Materials Part 2
• Abstract 3D Art Ideas Part 1
• Abstract 3D Art Ideas Part 2
• Finding 3D Objects and Assets
• Chrome Effect Poster Design Part 1
• Chrome Effect Poster Design Part 2
• Chrome Effect Poster Design Part 3
• Glossy Abstract Art Part 1
• Glossy Abstract Art Part 2
• Glossy Abstract Art Part 3

• Course Conclusion and Next Steps
• Bonus Project: Mockup Design
• Bonus Project: Glow Effect
• Bonus Project: Double Exposure Effect
• Final Course Message

Photoshop is a paid Adobe subscription, so yes, eventually. Adobe offers a free trial, which is enough to start the course and decide whether it is for you.

It has a reputation, and the honest answer is that module one is the hard part. Once layers, masks and selections make sense, almost everything else in the course is a variation on them. Take the first module slowly and the other nine go quickly.

166 lessons and about 50 hours of video across ten modules, every lesson with written notes and key takeaways, plus 124 interactive steps, ten checkpoints of eight questions and a 20-question final assessment. Photo editing is one module of the ten. The rest is graphic design and branding, digital illustration, mockups and smart objects, textures and effects, creative compositing, advanced retouching, a 3D module and three bonus projects.

No. The videos sometimes refer to a resource pack of images, and no pack was delivered with this material, so every lesson that leans on one says so and gives a route that costs nothing. Free-licence photograph sites cover almost all of it, and for a good deal of the work your own photographs are the better exercise anyway.

Module 9 does, and it is worth knowing before you start it that Adobe has removed those features: there is no 3D menu or panel in current versions, and that work now lives in separate applications. The module is still worth watching, because the concepts are the vocabulary of every 3D application and because the chrome, metallic and glossy effects in it are built with ordinary Photoshop filters. Every lesson in that module says so at the top.

Because the material is several recordings joined together. Lesson 9.15 and lesson 10.1 both sign off as though you have finished, and there are five more lessons after the first of them, including three bonus projects. Those lessons say so, so you do not stop early.

Lightroom is for organising and editing whole shoots quickly. Photoshop is for deep work on individual images: retouching, cutouts and composites. Many photographers end up using both.

Every OBA certificate can be verified online by an employer. The edited images you produce along the way are the other half of the proof.

Every course has a 7-day money-back guarantee, and Adobe's trial means you can test the software in the same window. If it does not fit, we refund you.