This is an introduction to Photoshop in 6 parts. The way tend to teach these sessions to create video clips that guide the kids to using and creating a basic model then allow them to build whatever they feel like making. In this instance a kind of movie/ album cover that has very basic composition.

Photoshop, as an introduction, is basically three things:

Selecting, Moving, and Blending.

You'll hear me talk about these three things and use similar words that mean one of these three areas. I might be cutting (selecting), layering (moving) and composing (blending).

The great thing about Photoshop is that the kids know about something being ‘shopped or Photoshopping something. The other aspect is that this is the first time the kids really use a full-scale, professional application as it is for a creative studio in the real world. The knock-on here too is that the first view can be overwhelming to many. All the tools are presented straight way to you in the opposite way that an iPad app is presented to you. iPad apps are designed in such a way that fewer buttons have deeper menus. Just look at the desktop and the iOS versions of Affinity Photo down here.

1. Introduction. Opening Photoshop, dragging in an image and making your first selection.

1.1 Open Photoshop from your Apps Menu.

1.2 Download the Astronaut image with black background to somewhere like 'Downloads' folder.

1.3 Drag the image from the 'Downloads' folder into the Photoshop window and see what happens inside Photoshop.