Best Online Photoshop Classes

CreativeLive Adobe Photoshop CC: The Complete Guide does a great job at taking users from beginner level to high level in a chronological way that progresses nicely and covers a lot of ground.

This class, created by Ben Willmore, offers a 25-hour course spread over 21 lessons of video, all designed to take you from novice to master.

Willmore has taught more than 100,000 Photoshop users how to understand the versatility of the tool. You'll enjoy his comfortable, accessible teaching style that shines through in his video tutorials.

The course teaches you how to manipulate images and photos, and it teaches you how to open and use the RAW files from your camera to get the best results. You'll learn to accelerate your workflow, with keyboard shortcut tips to make for a more seamless Photoshop using experience.

Best of all, this one is affordable, coming in at around $99 with discounts often available. That price includes lifetime access to all resources, so you're able to retake the course in the future at no additional cost.

Udemy's beginner to advanced Photoshop course does a wonderful job at taking people from zero to proficiency. If you've never used Photoshop, this is the class for you.

The course is designed for those who have never opened Photoshop, and starts right at launching the software before progressing through an understanding of the interface. You'll learn how to create new files and edit photos, graphics, and your own personal projects.

Along with being an easy class to pick up, Udemy's pricing is excellent, offering a multi-step course for $99.99 with steep discounts often available. The course has premium video content for easy understanding and learning at your own pace, as well as downloadable project files and assets to easily follow along.

If you get stuck, there's even the option of hands-on support from the instructor and others like him, making it a perfect segue into learning Photoshop.

If you feel like the cost of Photoshop itself is all you want to spend, why not try one of the free tutorials out there? Our favorite is Adobe's own instructional database of lessons.

The Get Started course explains the interface and layout of Photoshop, how to change the size of images, work with layers, and even improve the quality of your photos and pictures.

It also has tutorials if you want to edit photos, learn website and graphic design, or understand the wonders of layer masking. If you prefer to learn while working on your own project, there are courses designed specifically around a final goal to make it easier to learn as you create.

Should you feel like you're a bit beyond the basics, there are more advanced courses you can do, too, including ones that teach you how to integrate your Photoshop projects with other Adobe applications.

This class is specific to Skillshare users and contains many lessons that allow users to pick up where they feel comfortable skill-wise. New users can stop from the beginning, and advanced users can pick up later in the course.

Skillshare is a popular platform for people wanting to learn a variety of subjects, with Photoshop among them. While there are many informative Photoshop classes on Skillshare, the Adobe Photoshop CC—Essentials Training Course with Daniel Scott is a standout.

As one of the most popular Photoshop courses on Skillshare, Scott's class is comprehensive and starts with the basics.

You don't have to start from the beginning if you already have some Photoshop skills. With more than nine hours of tutorials, you're bound to learn plenty. For example, expect to learn how to manipulate existing images, create your own graphics, and combine them to make an exciting work of your own.

If you need any examples along the way or a good starting point, there are exercises and completed files to use as a guide.

If you're a fan of LinkedIn and its built-in learning platform, its Photoshop CC 2019 Essential Training: The Basics is an excellent starting point for folks looking to use Photoshop for the first time.

The course will help you understand everything from how to open documents in Photoshop from Bridge and Lightroom to working with layers and masks and removing unnecessary elements from an existing picture. There's even an entire section dedicated to speeding up your workflow by adjusting and customizing keyboard shortcuts.

Compatible with tablets and phones, the course also has project files to work from. LinkedIn Learning plans are $39.99 per month, or you can buy the course by itself for $49.99.

If that's all a little too basic for you, though, there's also a one-on-one mastery course with Deke McClelland, who breaks down some of the more complicated Photoshop skills you can learn, step by step.

Photoshop Beginners Mastery—Zero to Hero does a great job at squeezing informative lessons into a short timespan, cutting a lot of the fluff you may find in other courses.

If you don't have time to sit through hours of video tutorials and feel like you can intuitively grasp things like interface and basic design choices, a quick Photoshop course may be for you.

Our favorite is the Photoshop Beginners Mastery: Zero to Hero in Photoshop course on Udemy. Taught by Chad Neuman, closed captioning is available in a number of languages, and it comes with all the resources you'll need to get started. What's more, it's only three hours long.

That doesn't mean it's lacking in content, though. It covers everything the big courses do, but in a more concise manner. That includes managing different screen modes, working with a variety of file types, blending Bridge and Photoshop for a more complete experience, and even creating your own home-brew animation.

Along with video content, the course includes three informative articles, which is nice if you learn best by reading and watching.

The class costs around $50 with steep discounts available.

From web design to vector graphic manipulation, Photoshop is an amazing tool for a host of reasons. Its core focus, however, always has been on adjusting photos, taking them from average to stellar.

If you're a budding photographer or professional, the Photoshop 2020 for Digital Photographers course with Colin Smith on PhotoshopCAFE is a fantastic resource. As an award-winning digital artist and the founder of PhotoshopCAFE, Smith is just the right person to walk you through image manipulation in Photoshop to make your photos really pop.

For around $100, the class includes 89 videos that cover the key features of Photoshop and how to make the most of them. You'll learn how to adjust color and tone, retouch, crop, scale, sharpen, and layer images. Each tutorial is broken down into a short, snappy video.