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Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book, 1st edition

Published by Adobe Press (December 13, 2024) © 2025

  • Conrad Chavez

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Title overview

The fastest, easiest, most comprehensive way to learn Adobe Photoshop

Adobe Photoshop Classroom in a Book 2025 Release 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.

Purchasing this book includes valuable online extras. Follow the instructions in the book’s “Getting Started” section to unlock access to:

  • Downloadable lesson files you need to work through the projects in the book
  • Web Edition containing the complete text of the book, interactive quizzes, and videos that walk you through the lessons step by step

What you need to use this book: Adobe Photoshop 2025 Release software, for either Windows or macOS. (Software not included.)

Table of contents

Getting Started

1 Getting to Know the Work Area

2 Basic Photo Corrections

3 Working with Selections

4 Layer Basics

5 Quick Fixes

6 Masks and Patterns

7 Typographic Design

8 Vector Drawing Techniques

9 Advanced Compositing

10 Painting with the Mixer Brush

11 Editing Video

12 Working with Camera Raw

13 Preparing Files for the Web

14 Editing for Consistent Color

15 Exploring Generative AI

Author bios

Conrad Chavez is the author or co-author of many books about Photoshop and digital media workflows, including the Photoshop Classroom in a Book series and the Real World Photoshop series. His articles appear on CreativePro.com and in CreativePro Magazine. You can find out more about Conrad at conradchavez.com.

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