Course Dates
- Wednesday 1st - 2nd September 2010 \ 3 places book now
Adobe Photoshop is the professional software package for graphics designers. Photoshop provides the features needed to manipulate images, layout documents, enhance photographs and produce professional output for both print and web media.
Photoshop is the industry standard and current leading graphic design package that forms part of the Adobe Creative Suite. Included with Photoshop is Adobe Bridge; an image management program designed to work between all of Adobe's packages enabling the quick and easy transfer of documents and design components between Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Dreamweaver, increasing workflow and making managing the design process even easier.
The Photoshop training course aims to develop a knowledge of the tools, features, workspace and how to work effectively when producing design work for either print or web. All skills needed to design flyers or website components through to professional photographic manipulation techniques are comprehensively covered.
Course Requirements
To attend the Introduction to Adobe Photoshop training course you should have experience using either the Windows or Mac interface and be capable of basic file management. No previous graphic design software skills or experience is required, but an eye for design and a creative mind is always beneficial.
Course Description
The training course structure comes from the actual use of Photoshop in professional industries. The course starts with a look at the Photoshop interface and how this can be configured to best suit the designer as well as the media that is being created. Initial document setup is well covered as often this decides what is possible within the Photoshop working environment. With Adobe Bridge linking the other Creative Suite packages together the course looks at the management of resources in this vital tool.
Creating professional looking imagery for print or web is covered with the image manipulation tools. Correcting or rescuing an image is possible with knowledge of Photoshop's level and curve tools while making images a little more dramatic can be achieved through careful use of controls such as hue and saturation and the blurring and sharpening tools.
The course then looks at cleaning up product shots using a combination of masking techniques with an introduction to effectively using the magic wand, quick mask and lasso tools. Combining these techniques with colour control and filters can result in top quality professional looking stock shots. This leads into the use of professional touch up techniques for enhancing imagery using the healing tools and the removal of unwanted objects.
Effectively using layers is a massive part of the flexibility within Photoshop and the course highlights this with the use of smart objects and blending modes. There is also a focus on organisation using layer folder structures to enable better workflow in web and print projects.
Typography is covered with a look at working with fonts and styles and the formatting of entire blocks of content. There is also an in depth look at layer styles and how typography can be manipulated and enhanced.
Finally, the course covers the process of outputting documents for various types of media and the optimisation of file formats both manually and automatically.
Course Trainer
Paul has over ten years experience in the fields of graphic design, web design and photography. With a knowledge of Photoshop from the first version Adobe released to today's stunning graphic design package. Using the package to produce such outputs as large scale product shots, portraits, corporate PR shots through to corporate identity, website design, logos, catalogues, brochures, banners and rebranding of major educational establishments and government projects.
With such a breadth of experience in many design fields and adapting the Photoshop interface to work effectively for each different outcome, a huge amount of transferable knowledge is available to those attending the training courses.
Course Location
This course is run from our rooms in Nottingham's prestigious Lace Market area which is a part of the city's main commercial district. This is serviced by a state-of-the-art tram system allowing easy access to the city centre as well as direct hourly rail services from London, Liverpool, Manchester, Birmingham, Derby and Leicester.
Course Details
- Course Duration :
2 days | 9.30am - 5pm - Course Location :
Lace Market, Nottingham, UK - Course Price :
£285 - Software Version :
Photoshop CS4
Course Overview
The course covers the following areas :
- The Photoshop Interface
- Document setup
- Colour modes, resolution
- Exploring the workspace & Adobe Bridge
- Introduction to the toolbar
- Palettes & panels within the workspace
- Undo methods
- Useful shortcuts
- Photographic Image Manipulation
- Levels and Curves
- Colour correction
- Exposure correction
- Hue & saturation controls
- Clean up techniques
- Blurring & sharpening techniques
- Selection & Cutouts
- Cropping and rotating
- Using the magic wand
- Transforming selections
- Quick Mask and lasso tools
- Combining Selection tools
- Image Adapting/Fixing
- Photographic touch up techniques
- Clone stamp and heal tools
- Object removal
- Drawing and Fills
- The brush tool
- Paintbrush, Pencil or Paint Bucket tool
- Introduction to Gradients
- Understanding Layers
- Importing images
- Free transform
- Smart objects
- Folder structures
- Transparency
- Basic blending modes
- Typography
- Fonts and styles
- Text formatting
- Manipulating typography
- Layer Styles
- Outputting your Artwork
- Automated outputs
- Saving your working & output documents
- File formats & optimising artwork for web