Get into Photoshop with Stephen Burns

Photoshop is the worlds most widely used digital paint, digital touch up, graphics creation and manipulation tool. Whether you're a completely new user or you just want to brush up on your Photoshop Skills this 2 hour video tutorial will refresh you on the basics of Photoshop and even show you a few techniques along the way.

In the first of two tutorials on this video, Stephen first uses basic shapes to show you the fundamentals of Photoshop. Understanding Photoshop's work flow and tools is key to learning how to properly use the software. While designed for beginners to get up to speed, intermediate users usually pick up a few tricks as well.

The second tutorial and the longest part of the training on this video shows you how to build the image on the cover of the video. This part of the tutorial is project based and a brilliant tutorial for all users of Photoshop. This training video will give you a solid foundation on Photoshop, using layers, masks, and transform to just name a few.

Artists Profiles

Stephen Burns has discovered the same passion for the digital medium as he has for photography as an art form. His background began as a photographer 22 year ago and in time, progressed toward the digital medium. His influences include the great Abstractionists & the Surrealists including Jackson Pollock, Wassily Kankinsky, Pablo Picasso, Franz Kline, Mark Rothko, Mark Tobey, and Lenore Fini, to name a few.

Stephen Burns has been a corporate instructor and lecturer in the application of digital art and design for the past 10 years. He has been exhibiting digital fine art internationally at galleries such as Durban Art Museum in South Africa, Citizens Gallery in Yokahama, Japan, and CECUT Museum Of Mexico to name a few. Part of his exhibiting won him 1st place in the prestigious Seybold International digital arts contest.

You can read more about Stephen Burns at Photoshop Support or no his own web site here. Stephen's new book is out and is a testament to his training and Photoshop skills, Photoshop CS Trickery and FX is sure to be one of the best selling Photoshop books on the market.