Free ebookPhotoshop Basics: A Beginner’s Guide to Layers, Masks, and Selections

Course Description

Photoshop Basics: A Beginner’s Guide to Layers, Masks, and Selections is a practical ebook course in Design and Art focused on image editing for anyone who wants to edit photos with confidence. You will learn how to navigate the Photoshop interface and build a reliable workflow that keeps your work clean, editable, and ready for real projects.

Progressively, you will move from understanding Photoshop layers to organizing complex edits, controlling visibility, and using blending modes to shape how elements interact. You will practice non-destructive editing with adjustment layers for color and tone corrections, so you can refine images without damaging your original pixels. As your skills grow, you will use layer masks to hide and reveal details seamlessly, creating professional-looking results that remain easy to revise.

Precision is a core part of modern image editing, so this course also guides you through selections in Photoshop, including techniques for targeting edits accurately and refining difficult edges. You will learn how Select and Mask can help with clean cutouts, including challenging subjects like hair, and how refined selections combine with masks for believable composites and retouching.

To connect concepts to real-world applications, you will follow practical workflows such as portrait retouching using layers, masks, and adjustments, replacing a background with careful selections, and handling everyday photo fixes like straightening, removing distractions, and enhancing details while staying non-destructive. You will also learn smart file practices, PSD organization, and export choices for web and print, so your results look consistent wherever they are shared.

Start this beginner-friendly Photoshop ebook course today and build the foundational skills in layers, masks, and selections that power high-quality image editing.