Top tip for beginners: Watch this a few times and try pausing it and giving each step a try as you go. Then when you edit your next few photos have this playing in the background and following his instructions from just listening. Really helps you pick it all up!

WINDOWS: Shift+Option+Command+N: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+N Shift+Option+Command+E: Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E Content Aware Box: Shift+F5

The content here never fails to impress! The detailed breakdowns, clear comparisons, and exceptional sound design and storytelling are incredibly valuable. Big thanks for the insightful and well-crafted material

This got me started on editing in photoshop - I stayed in Lightroom because PS was too daunting. Thank you for giving me that confidence boost I needed, Peter!

Just some notes I wrote down if anybody wants them 2:15 Tweaking the overalls 3:16 Cleaning up minor un-wanted items in the photo with Spot Healing Brush Tool 4:22 Layers 5:34 The pre-sharpening (blurring the image) 6:40 Sharpening - Lightness and darkness 7:52 (Optional) if you want more sharpness 8:35 Warmth 10:01 Making his eyes or mountains in the background lighter or darker 14:35 Slight overall bump in brightness Reminder these settings are all personal preferences

For content aware box in Windows, instead of Shift + Del, it is Shift + F5

Legit love how u talk (explain things). You go straight to the point and don’t make things hard to understand. I have adhd and I can’t listen to some people, either they talk too much and do less work and makes things way more complicated then it needs to be! I love the speed and how clean your explanations are!!! I’ve learned so much from you, keep up the good work!!!!

Please make more of these photoshop tutorials, yours are so much better than any other I've seen. Easier to understand for me, not annoying like most.

hands down the best tutorial guide for anything . i dont find myself falling asleep or wandering off. keep this up

please don't stop with youtube! I love your videos!

This commend is a notepad for the next time i edit a game screenshot 5:44 BLUR 6:23 BLUR OPACITY 6:58 MAKE IT SAD 7:05 OVERLAY IT 7:15 FIX IT 8:54 WARM IT 9:30 SOFT LIGHT 9:41 OPACITY 12:20 LASO TOOL 12:39 CHANGE 12:44 S 12:59 TO RED 13:29 BRUSH IT 14:04 SAD AGAIN 14:22 OVERLAY AND THEN OPACITY 12:47 S AGAIN

Hey, I'm back after 4 years of photography. Man, I finally understand this video! Thanks Pete!!!

i love your method of teaching... fun and fast no time to get bored...

You got rid of a freckle but not the red bump ://

I love that you vocalize the keyboard short cuts. Thank you for ALL your tutorials. What got me hooked on your channel is, that you get right to the point. That's so hard to find on KZfaq

Learned more from this 17 minute video about photo editing than I did in 4+ years of an "education." Nice.

Shift+ Ctrl+Alt+N & Shift+Ctrl+Alt+E - Windows

I'm not a photographer. But still find your videos amazing!

I have watched this video a solid 20 times hahaha

Shift+Control+Alt+N / Shift+Control+Alt+E. Reminder for me of the future

please do one for Lightroom. thanks

This dude's channel is going to blow up.

I just came from a two hour online class for my photography course, and I understood almost nothing from it. Came here, watched a 17 minute video, and got everything I missed. Awesome!

This is literally the most important video I have ever seen. Potentially life changing!

Some of the best content on YT right now. Really enjoying your work. Keep it up.

I lost it at 9:36. 😂 Great tutorial, Peter! Thank you!

Hello Peter! I love watching all of your videos. I appreciate all the time it takes for you to get these informative videos out to us. At 52 years old, it's hard for me to learn new things like lightroom and photoshop, but having your videos to look at over and over really helps. How did you ever learn all the things you do with these programs? Thanks so much and keep up the good work.

This is still my best PS tutorial. That process of blurring colour and sharpening B&W works Magic Pete!

great video, i love your content, you're just so authentic and easy to watch :)

I think u should start doing modeling. You look freaking DOPE!

seriously, Pete, your style is uncanny. THANK YOU for being incredible.

Getting into photo editing after taking some engineering classes where I learn the math behind all those effects and filters (like the high pass filter), I appreciate what it does a lot more. Weirdly it even helps me follow the tutorial better.

crazy! I am new to photoshop and just by watching this i feel like a pro already. thanks for sharing

I come back to this video time and again.

This is 100% gold. Honestly, the first time I watched this, it was without PS open at all, just to watch and take it all in - and holy just watching it gets you super excited to edit, but there is for sure a lot to take in! The 2nd time through I paused during every step and tbh it's really not that hard if you do it this way and just take your time through 1 edit. I've used this video for a dozen or so edits now and each time I need to refer to the video less. Eventually I will 100% be doing it on my own - and I've even started to tweak some of the values he's shown in the vid to make it more my own! I get that this is just my learning process and everyone is different, but just wanted to share how I was able to learn from this. Regardless, I hope you keep making awesome content Peter, I truly appreciate the quality of yours and Matti's videos.

Every new layer he added, I'm just like "Wooooooowwww"

This is magic! Thanks

The final edit looks like something you can do in Instagram. The raw footage looked waaaay better

I not only learn, but I am truly entertained by your videos. I enjoy that you don't take yourself to seriously. Yet still make learning something enjoyable.

I absolutely love the last tidbit at the last minute when you talk about styles. You da bomb Peter

I've never been so sincere with a subscribe before.

Honestly, thank you for repeating Shift-Option-Command-E/N over and over, I was one of the people who neeeded it because I kept forgetting.😭😭

i keep viewing this video over and over again i made a photoshoop action with these edits but always forget how its done haha

TNice tutorials is one of the best tutorials of ANYTNice tutorialNG that I've ever watched in my life! Thank you so much!

If you just hit comand shift alt E it will make a stamp. No need to make a new layer first =]

Wow this literally took my basic photos and turned them into something amazing, thank you Peter! 👌

I CANNOT EMPHASIZE HOW HELPFUL THIS VIDEO HAS BEEN FOR MY EDITING!

Repeating the commands is really helpful as I am completely new to photo shop and trying to learn how to use photoshop, illustrator, & premier pro all at once.

your videos a very useful and hilarious. keep up the good work

I love your photo style and the way you explained everything ! thank you for this video!!!

Dude, Pete.. you're so awesome! I've used this tutorial MULTIPLE TIMES for my photos! Thanks for helpin me bump my photos up to the next level!!!

I played this video over and over for each photo I was editing (went for a hike, had a whole album) and they turned out amazing, just the way I wanted them! I wanna show them to everybody now! :D

I think you should use lightroom for this, it is based on editing photos. Or is there another reason that you are using photoshop ? Would love to see you do this in Lightroom somewhere in the near future

Removes his natural freckles but his big forehead zit goes untouched. What kind of monster are you? xD

WOwowww Blown away!!! I watch so many of your videos.. Basically everyday for the past year or so... but i have not seen footage this far back until now... Awesome to see the growth I mean Empty Plug Sockets and Empty Drink bottles , and don't forget the little piece of starbucks cup hanging in the side... now im far from perfect im new to serious photography, hints the year in of Peter McKinnon,... But its very inspirational to see how far you have come. Now i have to watch the video again to actually learn the tips... LOL Thanks! I appreciate what you do!

This is even doable for a pleb in Photoshop like myself. Brought my photo's back to life, used this tutorial but adjusted to my own liking. Very well explained thanks a lot!!!

"sowrry." - Peter McKinnon

i am not a photoshop pro but you explain it in a very good way so i feel like i am a photoshop pro haha. anyway, thank you so so much for helping us out. this is what i need for my daily posts on IG or any other social media platform. i really appreciate it. keep up the very good work! much love from switzerland :D

I found this video sometime last year and I always come back to it. I love it cause I have learned so MUCH. THANK YOU

Been waiting 20 years for a common sense tutorial like this! Thanks!

“If this isn’t your CROP of tea” 😂

Not photoshop related but... I like your humor🤣

I LOVE WATCHING THIS GUY....more than i love photography

I absolutely LOVE this video man. I just learnt SO much and my edit is incredible. Thanks so much!

rewatched - several times AM STILL CONFUSED Shots and rewatched STILL DONT GET IT stamp a what now?

Teach me how to take great pictures!

Thank you. This is perhaps one of the most informative and easiest to follow photo editing videos I have seen. Can't wait to try it out.

I have been watching you for years, BIG BIG FAN, and if I have never said before (although I know I have lol but just for measures) I find your videos so soothing but educational. Literally am thanking you for staring a youtube page because you're 90% of the reason I know what I'm doing when I'm working on something. THANK YOU FOR THE AWESOMENESS!

"If that's what you're going for... you're done." Haha, nice! Halloween is coming so thanks for that! ;D

To me the image is too saturated :(

Can't say much other than...AWESOME, thanks you Pete.

Love finding your older videos such as this one and watching you explain Ps. I'm getting more into using Ps, and these really do help. Thanks Pete!!!

Question. alt+ctrl+shift+e makes a new layer and stamps the image automatically. Is it necessary to make a new layer then?

Thank you so much for helping me get into photography! the skills I'm learning here are helping me to monetize my photography in a time where I'm absolutely desperate - so yeah you're awesome and thank you.

I did my Multimedia Degree through correspondance and I found you today, your awesome at teaching and simplifying things!

Peter looks like a guy left alone on an island for a few months lol..... he looks much cooler now ❤️❤️❤️

Damn. Found this channel today and I'm loving it. Really helpful and learned quite a bit. Thank you!

Bro you made me laugh so hard when you gave him zombie eyes that my snot came out

Its so fun watching how other people edit! This is so different

Just wanted to say that I've been watching your videos for a while bro, thanks so much for the tutorials, this one is by far my favorite.

Can you make a tutorial about how to make an Intro? Keep up the good work!

I knew that landscape looked familiar. It's my desktop background.

I’ve watched hours of videos and tNice tutorials one is the first that explains it in a way a complete beginner could understand! Great video

As someone who is just starting out with Photoshop (on a pc), the Shift+CtrL+Alt+N/E already makes me feel a little bit more like a pro :-) Thanks for the Tutorials Peter, I have been binge-watching for a week now

Dude you are sooo good at this!! lol

Thanks a lot for this man. You just got a new fan. This helped me loads. You’re amazing!

I'm an insomniac now and that's why I post this, but I really like your stuff

The fact that i dont use mac fucks my mind with keyboard shortcuts fam

Are all of your tutorials going to strictly be for Mac? I have Windows and can figure out most of the command differences but takes twice as long re-watching certain points in the videos. Thank you.

Its so pleasant to watch your videos and you are also on point! Thanks!!!

Thanks Peter! Awesome video. Enjoyed it thoroughly!

How to make your photos LOOK BETTER FAST! 17 min,

You removed the dust from his shirt, but you didn't removed his giant pimple on his forehead. WHY?

Pete is the Bob Ross of PS!

I just realized something. Doing something in Photoshop is easy. But, doing something in Photoshop proficiently takes a lot of experience, lots of experimentation and/or guidance from a professional.

Shift - command U on iMac right ? That's cool. What is it on PC ? Pete ?

take a shot every time he says "shift+option+command+end" haha

5:33 That look is just the greatest look I've ever been looked at with.

Of all the videos i have watched , you are .... the only one who could teach me this XD I genuinely want to thank you for this , because i just put soft lightening on several pictures!

Damn man, you are amazing!