Adobe Photoshop CS2 is a professional photo editing software. While anyone can purchase Adobe Photoshop CS2 for use, the program can be overwhelming if you do not know how to use it. Adobe Photoshop CS2 offers many different features for photo editing that you can learn with the help of a tutorial. While there are a number of small tutorials on the internet, one of the most comprehensive tutorials comes from Marrutt Software Training. You can learn Adobe Photoshop CS2 with their tutorial, which is made up of almost 150 lessons.

Visit the Marrutt Software Training website. Go to their page for Beginners Adobe Photoshop CS2 Tutorial. Purchase the Beginners Adobe Photoshop CS2 Tutorial training CD. There are a total of 148 lessons that last 10 hours on how to use Adobe Photoshop CS2. 2009 price: $124.95.

Familiarize yourself with the screens, palettes, options and workspace in Adobe Photoshop CS2. If you are not familiar with any previous version of Photoshop then you will want to start at the beginning of the lessons so that you can get to know the layout of the screen and where to find options that you are looking for. The beginning lessons also help you learn how to manipulate and create documents in Adobe Photoshop CS2 and teaches you the difference between raster graphics and vector graphics.

Learn how to create and manipulate designs with the next lessons. You can learn how to crop images, how you can use the eyedropper and the color palette to change the way your image looks and how to use text boxes and fonts in Adobe Photoshop CS2. You also get an explanation of the Selection Tools, Painting Tools and Drawing Tools and how you can use them to manipulate images. Layer masks and layers are introduced and you are taught how to use them to create separate layers that you can merge for a totally new image. Or even how to use a layer mask to only make changes to a section or small part of an image.

Get training on advanced Adobe Photoshop CS2 techniques with the latter lessons on the CD. Filters and effects are covered in detail so that you can see the number of different ways that you can make an image look just by applying a filter or effect. Color correction is an entire lesson on its own and you get more than just red eye correction. You will learn how to take a washed out image or an image that is too dark and correct it to look that way it should have looked in the first place. Retouching images is also covered in the advanced lessons. It includes retouching scanned images with scratches or dust as well as the type of retouching that magazines do for their cover model images.