December 2025
Beginner
449 pages
14h 20m
English
Overview
The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book contains 15 lessons that use real-world, project-based learning to cover the basics and beyond, providing countless tips and techniques to help you become more productive with the program. For beginners and experienced users alike, you can follow the book from start to finish or choose only those lessons that interest you. Learn to:
Create and improve images using the professional tools in Adobe Photoshop
Seamlessly remove backgrounds, replace skies, and repair photos
Select subjects with complex outlines, including hair
Use Adobe Firefly generative AI to retouch challenging images or to create new images from a text prompt
Composite multiple images with graphics and typography
Using a timeline, animate graphics and type and combine them with video and audio
Automate repetitive tasks
Edit camera raw images
Export your work for the web, mobile devices, video, and print
Classroom in a Book®, the best-selling series of hands-on software training workbooks, offers what no other book or training program does an official training series from Adobe, developed with the support of Adobe product experts.
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