What training material would you recommend for the basics of Photoshop?

Question

Design

I would like to be advised a small course in which they pass on the main features of Photoshop.

Answer 1

in my opinion, things like photoshop or something from 3d need to be learned from ready-made projects photoshop-master.ru
demiart.ru
digital-tutors.com
it’s just that over time everything will be deposited in the head ... and some overview things are simply stupid and you can remember something when it’s already you work in something for a long time and are just looking for something that will make your life easier
or is it just my way of self-learning
, for example, on nuke, I watched a tutorial from the gnomon workshop there is so much told (I mean just a complete course on functions, well, maybe not complete ) the head swells so they also speak with an accent (and I’m also not very strong in English
UPD: I forgot to say that you need to twist the twists and not stupidly rewrite the numbers from the lesson .. you will get your own result that you will like more than a copy of the lesson

Answer 2

I do not recommend this approach. If you jump from tutorial to tutorial throughout the entire tutorial, then your skills will be limited only by what you spied on in the tutorials. And if you need to solve a new problem, then you will have to look for a new tutorial. And he may not be. And this problem will haunt you all the time, especially if we are talking about high-quality creative work .
Of course, a tutorial is the quickest and easiest way to get something specific right away. I'd say it's a lazy way. Although I myself use tutorials from time to time. But I use them mainly to spy on alternative ways to solve a problem. And even if I don’t do something exactly according to the tutorial or don’t find an answer, then this may prompt me to think about how to solve this or that problem.
However, I strongly do not recommend using tutorials and all sorts of "Tips & Tricks" for the very initial training and acquaintance with the program. Because you will get stuck on what was in the tutorial and you will not be able to look beyond your nose and take a step in the direction.
Photoshop is a powerful tool with which you can solve a huge number of tasks. And if you learn how to use this tool, then the range of your projects and tasks will be limited only by your imagination. And not the number of tutorials that you looked at.
I speak from my experience. That's why I personally use 18 different programs for graphics, animation and other things in my work. 10 of them are Adobe programs. And I'm pretty good at all of them. If you are interested, here is more about my skills here: nordskill.com/about-nordskill.html#software-skills .
I recommend that you first systematically study the tool itself (Photoshop). Again, from my experience, I advise you to look at the site lynda.com. It just differs in that they don’t make tutorials there, but teach you how to use the tools: they talk about the interface, sort out the main functions and put it all on the shelves. Yes, you will not get the first result so quickly, but you will quickly learn all the features of Photoshop in general.
Specifically, I can advise you Photoshop CC Essential Training (2015) - this is just the initial training for the program.
You can simply view the entire course very quickly - in a day. But you can't do that. No need to try to remember everything at once. Will not work. You need to open Photoshop from the very beginning and work with the files attached to the course as you view it, or just do something for yourself (as I usually do). So in a week you can thoroughly study the program. You will also give advice to professionals. Here you will see. Trust my 10 years of experience.
PS Creativity is valued by non-trivial approaches, original techniques and solutions. And if your creative work as a result is the same as that of thousands of other "artists" (who watched the same tutorial), then it automatically depreciates.