Feiertag Loc: British Columbia, Canada

I'm currently contemplating to buy the course. The one I'm looking at is Adobe Photoshop CC: The Complete Guide by Ben Willmore, CreativeLive. It's on sale for $129.00 US which offers 21 lessons. He uses Photoshop 2015.

I was wondering which course you would suggest for me to purchase? I have Adobe Photoshop CC 2019.

rgrenaderphoto Loc: Hollywood, CA

These:

https://www.udemy.com/topic/photoshop/

fotoman150

The way I learned was I bought Scott Kelby’s book Photoshop For Photographers. Not sure what the most recent edition is. Also bought Adobe Photoshop classroom in a book. I got up every morning at 5:00am before the kids got up and went through the lessons.

I don’t recommend DVDs because you have to keep rewinding to go over things again if you don’t get it the first time. With a book it’s much easier to review. Also the books are much less expensive.

The good thing about Scott Kelby’a book is it is designed for photographers. Some books come from a graphic design standpoint and you learn the wrong things the wrong way for your purposes.

If you want to learn like a video teaches there are plenty of online lessons that don’t involve dvds and will be easier to rewind and review over and over. Try Lynda.com or Udemy.com.

Whatever you do don’t go to actual classes at a community college or other classroom environment because they move too fast and don’t go back and review to make it part of your permanent memory. Also if your computer malfunctions you will get left behind. Been there, done that.

I sat through a class one time and I just got up and left and went straight to the bookstore and bought the books mentioned above and never looked back.

Meadwilliam

Steele training

Gene51 Loc: Yonkers, NY, now in LSD (LowerSlowerDelaware)

There is so much free educational material online that I wonder how these guys that sell courses stay in business.

Aaron Nance - 0url]https://phlearn.com/?utm_medium=PPC&utm_campaign=AaronNace_PPC&utm_source=Google&gclid=CjwKCAiAiJPkBRAuEiwAEDXZZak6Fj5RUsyoJCLsMX-LsTE6TkKZBBi6j_7SZ4EV5ne2l_nv2S2PGBoCtqEQAvD_BwE[/url]

Photoshop Training Channel - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCdQ_ZkYaMe6qPoueUyPQgpQ

Anthony Morganti - https://www.anthonymorganti.com/

And so on -

Even Adobe has a collection of free, and pretty decent tutorials

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html

And we can't have a discussion about free tutorials without mentioning the master - Russell Brown, and his excellent materials - all free, all online.

http://www.russellbrown.com/tips_tech.html

Why pay for something that you can get for free?

Rich475 Loc: North of San Francsico

. . . and these courses generally are $10 to $12. Also have some good LR courses!

Country Boy Loc: Beckley, WV

Just me but you think that there have been many changes between the 2015 and 2019 systems? If I were going to pay that much for a DVD course I would at least expect it to be current!

rwilson1942 Loc: Houston, TX

Tons of FREE tutorials for PS on YouTube.
Check out Anthony Morganti.

speters Loc: Grangeville/Idaho

That's sounds like an aweful lot of money for that little amount of lessons, which can just scratch the surface, instead read a book about the program, that would be of much more help!

Meadwilliam

$47 for Steele basic photoshop. I’ve used the Lightroom course and love it. $47 isn’t much for an expensive hobby like photography.

Feiertag Loc: British Columbia, Canada

I agree. I thought that this could be a deal breaker.

Feiertag Loc: British Columbia, Canada

Thank you ever so much for the comments. I have decided not to buy the picked program, after writing all your fine suggestions.

Harold

Steve DeMott Loc: St. Louis, Missouri (Oakville area)

Check with your local library. Here in st louis missouri, a current library member can sign up to lynda.com for free. Thet have courseson almost every adobe product &hundreds on photography.
Lynda also has a 30 day trial which gives access tp all their courses.
Hope this helps

Harry0 Loc: Gardena, Cal

1) > Even Adobe has a collection of free, and pretty decent tutorials
https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/tutorials.html <
2) < Check out Anthony Morganti <
I was going to say the same thing. BUT!
It;s like learning anything else. Do the lesson. Do the action.
I can talk to you all day on playing the piano. If you ain't playing, you ain't learning.

billnikon Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont

The video tutorials available from Photoshop once you purchase are great. Plus, I would highly recomend the following book. "Teach yourself visually Adobe Photoshop CC" by Mike Wooldridge and Brianna Stuart.