traderjohn Loc: New York City

I find that YouTube has a lot of tutorials about PS and LR. I believe videos by; Phlearn, is very good

jerryc41 Loc: Catskill Mts of NY

The best I've found is Lynda.com. They used to offer a free trial period to see how you like it. The monthly charge used to be very reasonable. Lynda sold her company, so conditions probably changed. Another good one is ... (the name eludes me).

rplain1 Loc: Dayton, Oh.

I may be stupid (along with probably 75% of the members here) but I pay about 15 cents an hour to use Photoshop and Bridge. I can't enjoy an hours worth of coffee for that. And for that 15 cents, my program is always up to date. As for the learning curve, I had to learn to use my camera as well. Of course I could have saved money and trouble by buying a disposable one.

garrickw Loc: Wyoming Mn.

Google Blake Rudis might be the number one teacher of Photoshop in the country right now and has
many courses and has courses for beginners also and is not very expensive also can find him on U tube

IDguy Loc: Idaho

I’m enjoying both Northrup’s Lightroom and Photoshop books and videos. (double meaning as Chelsea does some videos).

Videos are OK to get general ideas but I can’t follow the multiple steps it takes to do anything. Books much more useful for me.

tcthome Loc: NJ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyR_uYsRdPs&t=3853s

3 hours free you tube course. I watched the beginning only because I don't have PS. Looks pretty good.

lamiaceae Loc: San Luis Obispo County, CA

Take a physical class at say adult education or a community college. I did, took several so now what I don't know I can understand in a video or book about Photoshop. Most of it is really for graphic designers. Nearly all photographers only need use a fraction of Ps potential. I do much of my processing in The ACR app before using full Ps.

dandev Loc: Enumclaw, WA

Many times you can get Lynda.com free through your library system.
The way I learned PS was to have a photo of my own I was trying to fix on one monitor - and an applicable tutorial on my other monitor.
I now use Affinity Photo vs. PS - and they have good YouTube tutorials as well.

fotogk Loc: Tuftonboro, NH

Don't buy any books or course to start. Contact your local library to see if they subscribe to LinkedIn Learning. If they do you can access a ton of high quality video lesson with files to start learning photoshop, lightroom and assorted other photography related material. All you need is your library pin your local library can provide this. LinkedIn Learning was formuly Lynda.com (I use to spend $300 a year on my subscription now it free (property taxes support library)) Once you get a foundation they you can explore youtube and the vast people that supply tutorials and courses.

rfcoakley Loc: Auburn, NH

If you have an Adobe subscription through creative cloud, the Adobe Max sessions from this year are all available as online replays. You might also find something of interest there. Some sessions that I found that apply to photoshop (use the search feature): 6412,6148,6154,6121,6411,6127,6411,6127,7007,7002,6129,6130,6124,8019,6165,6125

https://www.adobe.com/max.html

sodapop Loc: Bel Air, MD

I find that starting, stopping, and reversing videos works best to me. It helps greatly with that to have a second monitor

cbtsam Loc: Monkton, MD

There are millions who use Photoshop, and probably thousands of instructional books and videos, many for free. One source of free videos is ... Photoshop! If I leave Photoshop open after closing the last file I worked on, there are two windows up top. The one to the left is labeled "Browse tutorials," and clicking there leads to a long list of tiny mini tutorials, which give instructions and ask you to do what the instructions tell you to do in the demo window before moving top the next step, so you learn by doing. The one to the right is labeled "Find more in-app tutorials," which I think has slightly longer tutorials - I haven't tried any of those as yet. The tiny ones I tried were pretty good; I'd give 'em an A- or a B+. One that covered a tool I thought I knew how to use still taught me something useful.

When I started with Photoshop, back in '03, I was referred to an Adobe book called Classroom In A Book, which included a CD with files to practice on as you read through the book; the 2021 volume isn't available on Amazon yet, but I'm sure it is on it's way. It got me from "I dunno what a raw file is" to being able to do pretty decent work through Camera Raw and Photoshop, although I never finished it, and I'm still no Master of Photoshop. (You can check my proficiency if you want on my flickr page; I'd say C+ to B-, but I think I've got that proverbial 20% that let's me do 80% of what I want, which is all most software users get or need.)

And then there is the web, full of videos. I'm not sure that there's much that you really have to pay for, which is not to say that paying doesn't get you anything.

Keep in mind: you'll never master Photoshop 100% unless you make it a full time job, in no small part because it keeps evolving. The good news is you probably won't need 40%.

chasgroh Loc: Buena Park, CA

I like pain and I'm stupid. And I drink coffee, too. <shrug> But I also like all the tools I can get *use* out of. Still learning and enjoying, as much as my feeble intellect will allow, every painful minute.

Boone Loc: Groundhog Town USA

You should take a look at the "Free Video Course" at the link I listed below. It is aprox. 2.5 hrs. long. It may be just want your looking for.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyR_uYsRdPs

Just a thought!

Thanks,
Boone.

pjalper Loc: San Pedro Ca.

Scott Kelby's "How Do I Do That In Photoshop? A rockynook.com
selection.