{"id":25953925,"date":"2026-05-11T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/?p=25953925"},"modified":"2026-06-05T11:58:35","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T18:58:35","slug":"the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-photo-editing-in-adobe-photoshop-lesson-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/the-ultimate-beginners-guide-to-photo-editing-in-adobe-photoshop-lesson-1\/","title":{"rendered":"The ultimate beginner&#8217;s guide to photo editing in Adobe Photoshop: Lesson 1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If you're learning photo editing in Adobe Photoshop, there's almost no better guide on YouTube than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/unmeshdinda\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Unmesh Dinda<\/a>, the host of venerable <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/@PiXimperfect\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">YouTube channel PiXimperfect<\/a>. And if you're an absolute beginner \u2013 like, if this is your first time opening the software \u2013\u00a0he just started a new series just for you. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\"If you're opening Photoshop for the first time and everything feels overwhelming, this is exactly where you need to start,\" he says. \"In this lesson, you and I will walk through Photoshop together, step by step, from the very basics of what Photoshop even is, all the way to creating your first projects, saving your work, and confidently navigating the workspace.\"<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe title=\"Photoshop for Complete Beginners: Start Here | Lesson 1\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/OKkWRpoIFuw?feature=oembed\"  allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Photoshop for Complete Beginners, Lesson 1: The absolute basics<\/strong><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This tutorial goes over everything you need to know, from the most basic questions, like \"What is Photoshop?\" and \"What is a pixel?\" to how to utilize Workspaces, how to open, create, and save files, the options, status, and menu bars, and how to undo, redo, zoom, and pan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Unmesh has also provided a host of resources to help you follow along \u2013\u00a0download a detailed notes document and some project files by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.piximperfect.com\/lesson-1-assets-2026\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">clicking here<\/a>!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-group is-layout-constrained wp-block-group-is-layout-constrained\">\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:20px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>How to learn photo editing<\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There will be a bunch more lessons in the PiXimperfect absolute beginners' series, but if you're looking for more tips, tricks, and tutorials, check out our <a href=\"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/learn-to-draw-with-wacom\/learn-photo-editing\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Learn Photo Editing page<\/a>! We have tutorials from Unmesh, Colin Smith of PhotoshopCaf\u00e9, and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;re opening Photoshop for the first time and everything feels overwhelming, this is exactly where you need to start.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":25953949,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2336,2338,2552],"tags":[180,688],"class_list":["post-25953925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-photography","category-how-to","category-learn-photo-editing","tag-piximperfect","tag-unmesh-dinda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953925","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25953925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25953925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25953949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25953925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25953925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.wacom.com\/en-us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25953925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}