Photoshop for Lunch™ - Beginner Level classes

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Whimsical Scrapbook Paper Designs using Displacement Maps

Learn to make fun scrapbook papers which have an uneven and whimsical feel to them in Photoshop. You will learn how to make a displacement map that you can use to warp an image just enough to make an awesome pattern.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Make & Sell a Shapes Collection

Learn to make a range of complex shapes in Photoshop that you can package and sell. You will also see how to take shapes from Illustrator to use in Photoshop. This class is a "must see" for making shapes in Photoshop from a range of resource images.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Remove Unwanted Objects & Tourists from Photos

See how quickly and easily you can remove unwanted things from your photos - from tourists to rubbish and fences you will learn how the removal tools work and when to use which of them.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Demystifying the Histogram - Understand & Correct images with it

The mysteries of the histogram are revealed in this video which explains what it is, how to read it and how to use it to fix images and to take better images in the first place. This class is suitable and recommended to all photographers and anyone who edits and prepares images.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Complex Selections Made Easy - Master Refine Edge & Select and Mask

Learn to use the Refine Edge tool and the new Select and Mask tools in Photoshop. You will learn the strengths and weaknesses for these tools, how to use them to make the best selections and how to fix the problems when removing backgrounds from images in particular where there is flyaway hair.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - 10 Selection tips in 10 minutes (or less)

Quickly learn some 'must know' techniques for working with Selections in Photoshop. You'll learn how to invert selections, how to save and load them, rotate and reposition them and how to paint them on. All this and more in a mere 10 minutes.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Create a Custom Character Font

If you've never made a font before then now is the time. This fun class explores the basics of making fonts starting in Photoshop and finishing with a free online font creation site. This class is a lot of fun and, at the end of it, you'll have your own custom font ready to install and use.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Critters with Character - Pen Free, One Color Designs

Hate the pen tool? Great! Because this class doesn't use it. You'll learn to take shapes like the oval tool and warp and reshape them to make cute characters and then how to reuse the shapes over and over to create more characters.

Photoshop for Lunch - From Ho Hum to WOW - Everyday Photo-editing Made Easy

Make any photo so much better following the simple and ridiculously quick techniques shown in this class. This class is suitable for photographers, anyone preparing images for social media and other online and print use. You'll learn to improve any image in mere seconds.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Sketches & Brushes to Whimsical Patterns

This is a successor to the Whimsical Textures class below. In this class you'll see how to turn shapes into patterns you can use in your projects. You'll learn to use scanned shapes and also brushes you have created to add more whimsy still to your drawings.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Whimsical Textures for Drawings

Learn how to create whimsical textures using simple hand drawn brushes. You will learn how to make and configure the brushes so they paint like hand drawn lines and so they look anything but digitally created.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Abstract Glowing Backgrounds

Learn to make custom brushes in Photoshop using warped lines and how to combine these with built-in brushes, shapes and layer styles to create an abstract glowing background effect.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Layers and Layer Masks 101 for photographs and photographers

This great beginner class shows you how to work with layers and layer masks in Photoshop. It assumes no prior knowledge and gets you up and running very quickly creating simple image fixes and awesome textured overlay effects.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Valentine's Day Inspired Hearts

This class looks at a range of heart shaped objects in Photoshop from making a dimensional heart to a heart shaped brush and more. It's more than just for Valentine's day.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Patterns as Photo Overlays for Social Media

Make TV scan lines, small squares, grid and mosaic circles patterns in Photoshop - these are great patterns to use over your photos for social media

Photoshop for Lunch™ - 10 Blend Tips in 10 minutes

In just 10 short minutes you will learn 10 awesome blending tips including a one step process for extracting smoke, how to dodge and burn, and fix under and over exposed images quickly

Photoshop for Lunch - Create the Droste Effect with Photoshop and an Online Tool

Since the Pixel Blender plug in and the wonderful Droste filter no longer work in Photoshop - here's a cool solution for making the Droste Effect - starting in Photoshop and then using a free online app

Photoshop for Lunch™ - 10 in 10 - 10 Brush Tips in 10 Minutes or Less

Another of my popular 10 in 10 series - this class will teach you ten awesome brush tips for Photoshop in just 10 minutes. You'll learn to paint in multiple color, paint in straight lines, paint with texture, create presets and solve the problem of creating a 100% hard brush

Photoshop for Lunch™ - 10 in 10 - Ten Top Photoshop Tips in 10 minutes (or less)

This was the first of my 10 in 10 classes and this one is a grab bag of different Photoshop tips which will speed up your workflow. It includes saving a history of everything you do in Photoshop and turning a shape into a path and vice versa

Photoshop for Lunch™ - 4 Most Important File Formats - Choose & Save As: jpg, png, pdf, psd

Understand and learn where and when you would use the four most important file formats for Photoshop designers and photographers: jpeg, png, pdf and psd.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - B&W, Tints and Isolated Color Effects

Learn some handy Photoshop techniques for working with photos that you can use for social media and more. One of these effects is an isolated color which you can use to remove all color from an image and just leave one element colored. It's great for wedding photos and Instagram images too.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Clean & Color Scanned Line Art

Learn must know techniques for cleaning up scans of your line art drawings and then how to add color to them. This is a great technique for producing art for scrapbooking and to sell online.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Color a Scanned Sketch - Blends, Brushes, Layer Styles

This class differs from the one above as it shows how to turn a sketchy image (rather than one with very distinct lines) into a painted sketch. You will learn how to add color to the image by painting and a mindblowing technique for creating a background effect that requires no selection around your art to work.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Color a Sketch with a Texture - Masks, Dodge/Burn, Hue/Saturation

Continue to build on your skill base for coloring your own art with this handy class. Here you will learn to color a sketch with a single texture image and how to dodge and burn (paint on shadows and highlights) to enhance the depth in your image.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Create a Color Scheme Graphic

In this class even if you suck at color you are guaranteed to get a wonderful looking color scheme. You will learn to make the gird, add a photo and then sample colors from the image to make a kick ass color scheme. You will learn the combination of colors to choose and a fun way to name your colors too.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Set up Colors, Tints and Shades for Working Smarter in Photoshop

Now, once you know how to create color schemes in Photoshop, learn how to make tints and shades of your chosen colors. Together this class and the one before give you all the tools you need to create usable color schemes in Photoshop.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Create Backgrounds for Projects - Halftones, Sunburst, Patterns

The finishing touch for many projects is a background that complements the design. Here you will learn some techniques for making background designs which will also help you build your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Create HUD Rings - Repeat Transform, Filters & Textures

This is one of my favourite creative classes. Here you learn to build a shape from blocks and lines and make it into a HUD ring and then combine the elements into a finished polished design. It is an easy class and one which packs a lot of knowledge into a step by step process for creating this fun project.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Create Mockups to Use and Sell - Blends, Smart Objects, Effects

Mockups let you showcase your designs and patterns on real live objects. You will learn to put your designs on a pillow, a mug and a billboard. Finished designs like this help you create marketing material suitable for licensing your art and selling your designs online.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Curly Bracket Frames - Shapes, Paths, Strokes

Curly frames like these are popular in scrapbooking, invitations and other art projects. Here you will learn to make these designs using a font character to get the wonderful curves. The project is both fun and deceptively simple once you know how.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Cutout & Frame Photos - Clipping Mask, Layer Mask, Rotation, Shapes

Learn to crop your images into shapes like circles in Photoshop and how to add fun borders suitable for sharing on social media and for creating online saleable art.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Double Exposure Effect - Masks, Blends, Styles

You've seen this popular effect on the web and now it is your turn to make it. You will learn to choose the images to combine and then how to take them and blend them to make this double exposure effect. You will also learn how to make a custom shadow for your art.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Draw a Fantasy Map - Brushes, Patterns, Strokes & Masks

You don't have to be a cartographer to make these maps. You will learn how to make a fantasy map from scratch and you will see how to create brushes and patterns to use to complete the effect.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Folded Photo Effect - Gradients, Guides, Stroke, Drop Shadow

This fun effect lets you take a photo and make it look as if it is a real life folded image. You will learn to make the background, the border and the folds using a range of handy Photoshop tools.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Get Your File Size Right Every Time - Size Images for Web & Print

This 'bread and butter' class won't show you cool effects or ground breaking techniques - but it will make sure you know how to size and save your images for all sorts of uses. It's vital information for sending images to the web or print.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Glitter Text, Shapes and Scrapbook Papers

This is a super fun class where you will learn to make realistic glitter in Photoshop and then how to fill shapes and text with your glitter pattern. I'll also show you where to download a set of wonderful crown shapes to use with your new glitter.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Grid Collage for Social Media - Clipping masks, Shapes & Layer Styles

This grid collage helps you to assemble a series of images into a single presentation image complete with text. It is handy to use for social media and blogs and provides a great way for you to showcase your favourite photos.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Layered Paper Collage Effect - Layers, Layer Styles, Gradients

Create the look of bent paper in this class and learn to assemble simple shapes into more complex images. You will also learn to use gradients and layer styles in Photoshop.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Make & Sell Photoshop Brushes - Brushes, Templates, Preset

Make brush sets in Photoshop to sell or give away on your blog. You will learn how to take drawings and make brushes from them and how to create the marketing materials and files needed to ready your brushes for sale.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Make & Sell Scrapbook Designs - Formats, Files, Marketing Materials

Scrapbook papers are a popular item on Etsy and as giveaways on blogs. In this class you will learn to assemble a series of patterns into scrapbook papers ready for sale and how to create the marketing materials for them. You will also learn to save your documents in the required formats and file sizes for sale.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Make & Use Photo Brushes - Brushes, Masks, Watercolors

Take a photo and create both positive and negative brushes from the photo and learn some techniques for using the brushes and watercolor textures and blend modes to create artistic images.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Make Custom Shapes - Combine, Exclude, Intersect & Subtract

This is a 'nuts and bolts' Photoshop class which showcases the operators built into Photoshop for working with shapes. It is a fun way to build your Photoshop skills.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - More Patterns - Diagonal Stripes, Chevrons, Plaid, Colorful Polka-dots

Learn to make some basic (but not always easy to create) patterns in Photoshop.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Paint a Photo in Photoshop - Art History, Color, Texture

Turn a photo into a painting in Photoshop. You don't need to know how to paint to make a wonderfully sophisticated painting from a photo.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Pattern Bombing Effect - Patterns, Selections, Mask, Warp, Vanishing Point

This class is all about mockup on an epic scale. Learn to apply patterns to a range of buildings and, as you do, learn valuable techniques for creating mock ups large and small.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Pattern Making - Seamless Repeating Patterns

This beginner class teaches you to make basic patterns in Photoshop and how to clip your patterns to shapes to make simple images. It is a great place to start working in Photoshop.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Photo Texture Collage - Gradient Map, Blending & Textures

This is one of my favourite classes to teach. Here you will take a photo, cut it in half and reflect it and then texture it with an image and a gradient map and add light streaks to create an ethereal collage.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Recolor Objects without Making Selections - Master Color Change Tools

Learn a range of techniques for realistically changing the color of objects in an image without making tedious selections.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Seamlessly Blend Two Images - Masks, Content Aware Fill

This class could be called 'blending 101'. You will learn how to blend two images seamlessly together and how to make extra image if an image is too small. It is a quick class and one which will open new worlds of possibilities for you and your images.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Snapshot to Art - 3 Photo Effects - Faux Orton, Gradient Map, Tritone

This class showcases three effects that let you turn simple (throw away) snapshots and turn them into pieces of art in Photoshop. The faux Orton effect is simple and works well on cityscapes and landscapes and the other two effects help you recolor your images using tritones and the Gradient Map adjustment.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Text Over Image Effects - Type, Glyphs & Layers

Want to combine text and photos in an interesting way? In this class you will learn a range of methods for putting text over your photos so the result is creative and visually compelling.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Turn a Photo into a Pattern - Selection, Filter, Pattern Swatch

Take a photo of an object like this sparrow and learn to make it into a simple design that can be created as a repeating pattern. Even if you skip the pattern stage you will learn a handy way to simplify and recolor a photo of an object or animal that you can use in your own projects.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Upside Down Image Effect - Masks, Selections, Flip Images

This upside down image in image effect is popular on social media and here you will learn how to create a range of fun image in image effects.

Photoshop for Lunch™ - Vintage Image Cutout Effect - Selections, Drop Shadows, Transparency

This fun class takes a vintage image of your choice and lets you create it as a cutout, taped down, image. You will learn a handy way to search for images on Google and how to create this cutout effect and how to create and use digital sticky tape.