a learning initiative for
AdobePhotoshopSkill
Every image you have ever stopped to look at was touched by Photoshop.
The question was never whether Photoshop matters. The question was always who gets to learn it.
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10 hours
across 10 lectures
Recorded
online, flexible, English
Practical
an assignment every lecture
Laptop only
no phone, no tablet
ISO
certification on completion
Everything you see every day. Someone made it in Photoshop.
Before you learned what Photoshop was, you had already seen its work thousands of times.
camera raw
final print
Billboard retouching
Skin smoothed, colour corrected, background replaced.
shot at home
on the listing
eCommerce product shot
Background removed, colour balanced, shadow added.
three frames
one poster
Movie poster composite
Three separate photographs merged into one seamless image.
as served
on the menu
Food photography
Colour graded, lighting enhanced, imperfections removed.
plain photo
brand post
Brand Instagram post
Too clean to be a regular photograph, because it never was one.
screen grab
the click
YouTube thumbnail
Cut out face, layered text, colour graded background.
empty slot
live banner
App banner
Designed, composed and exported in Photoshop.
grey day
the album
Wedding photograph
Sky replaced, skin retouched, colours transformed.
You have been seeing Photoshop work your entire life.
You just did not know who made it.
This initiative teaches you to be that person.
ten lectures · ten assignments · real briefs
why photoshop, and why now
Photoshop is not a design app. It is control over the image itself.
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Selection and masking
Lift one subject out of a photograph cleanly, down to the strand of hair.
Every other tool hands you a finished look and asks you to fill it in. Photoshop hands you the pixels. Selections, layers, masks, healing, curves. Four ideas that let you build a visual that did not exist before you opened the file.
That is the difference between a designer who charges ₹500 per post and one who charges ₹5,000 per project.
And now is the moment for it. Photo and video work is being made faster than ever, which means the retouching, the compositing and the finishing are in more demand, not less. Yet most people who want to learn Photoshop are told it is too complex, too expensive, or too advanced for where they are starting from. This initiative was built to prove all three of those things wrong.
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background removal · product cutout
What Photoshop is actually worth once you can use it properly.
what photoshop is worth right now
typical fresher rates in india
Junior designer, monthly salary
Rs.15,000 to Rs.28,000studio, agency or in-house, first job
Monthly creative retainer, one brand
Rs.6,000 to Rs.15,000a fixed set of designs every month
Product photo retouching, per batch
Rs.1,500 to Rs.5,000cutouts, cleanup, colour, shadows
Single poster, banner or thumbnail
Rs.400 to Rs.1,500the small jobs that build a portfolio
Retouching work is quiet, constant and always needed, which is why it is usually the first paid work a Photoshop beginner gets.
These are the rates a fresher in India is paid for Photoshop work today, and none of them ask for a degree. They ask whether the file you deliver looks clean.
A few thumbnails and one retouching batch in a month already put real money in your hands, and the same software is used by photographers, designers, advertising agencies and film studios worldwide.
Ten sessions. One assignment each.
step through the history
Built around what a designer actually does with Photoshop professionally.
history · ten states
why photoshop is still the industry standard
AI design tools are getting better every year.
Canva is getting more capable every month.
And Photoshop is still the tool every serious design job asks for.
Not because the industry is slow to change. Because Photoshop gives a designer a level of control, precision and creative possibility that no template based tool has replicated yet.
Learning Photoshop does not make you resistant to new tools. It makes you better at using all of them.
Who this is for
Students who want their first serious design skill.
Freshers building a graphic design portfolio before their first job or client.
Aspiring freelancers who want to offer professional design and retouching as a service.
Content creators who want to produce original visuals instead of using templates.
Small business owners who want to create and edit their own product images and marketing materials.
Anyone who has opened Photoshop, felt immediately overwhelmed, and closed it, and wants to try again with proper guidance this time.
You can attend this session on
This one needs a laptop. Photoshop does not run properly on a phone or a tablet, so the lectures and the assignments both need a laptop. Adobe Photoshop runs on Windows and Mac.
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this one needs a laptop · no phone, no tablet
adobe photoshop runs on windows and mac
100 learners a month. No more.
Keeping this affordable means keeping it manageable. Every person who joins gets proper assignments, proper feedback, and a proper learning experience.
When this month fills, the next group opens the following month.
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100 places left of 100
resets in 14 days
₹1,050 · one time
₹1,050. Ten lectures. Ten assignments.
ISO certification on completion
The software behind every product image, every retouched photograph, every poster, every banner, every composite visual you have ever seen professionally produced.
Learn it once. Use it on every brief. For the rest of your career.