Adobe Photoshop CC Essentials
This 1-day course covers the essentials of Adobe Photoshop, focusing on its tools and features for image manipulation. Participants will learn to use tools for painting, retouching and enhancing images with selections and layers, gaining a solid understanding of the program's capabilities.
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Level
Duration
Training Delivery Format
Face-to-face / Virtual Class
per person
Level
Duration
Training Delivery Format
Face-to-face (F2F) / Virtual Class
Class types
Public Class
Private Class
In-House Training
Bespoke
About this course
This 1-day introductory course will help you learn about the tools and features available in Adobe Photoshop CC. We will help you understand how this industry-leading program takes image manipulation to a new level. You will use the program’s tools for painting, retouching, and enhancing images by using selections and layers.
Who should attend?
This course is intended for digital artists and photographers as well as those who work for advertising agencies, design agencies, marketing agencies, production houses, and specialist corporate departments.
Learning Outcome
Upon successful completion of this course, you will be able to:
- Navigate the Photoshop environment
- Select parts of an image in several ways
- Enhance images by using Adjustment Layers and Smart Sharpen
- Understand tools used for painting and retouching images
- Blend images to create simple compositions
- Add and adjust both text and layers
- Resize images for the web and for print
- Prepare images for print
Our goal is for you to understand the basics of adjusting and enhancing images.
Prerequisites
You will need basic PC or Mac skills, including a solid understanding of a computer’s operating system (Windows or Mac OS). You will also need to know how to launch a program, create and save files, and copy files from CDs and other media.
Course Content
The following is a general outline. The range of topics covered during your training is dependent upon student level, time available and preferences of your course booking.
Managing the Adobe Photoshop Environment
- Exploring the Interface
- Managing Panels
- Adjusting and Saving your Workspace
- Zooming in and out and moving around
- Using Undos with the History Panel
Working with Selections
- Creating Selections using Marquee, Magic Wand, Quick Selection and Lasso tools
- Adding and Subtracting from a selection
- Saving and Reloading a Selection
Enhancing an Image
- Cropping an image
- Using Levels
- Adjustment Layers
- Sharpening using Smart Sharpen
Painting, Retouching and creating Artistic Images
- Basics of Painting
- Clone Stamp and Healing Brush tools
- Using the Filter Gallery
Basic working with Layers
- Creating New Layers
- Transforming Layer Objects
- Adding Text
Checking the Image settings
- Sizing images for web pages
- Sizing images for print
- Resizing images
Saving images
- Understanding different file type options
- Saving for Web
Printing images
- Understanding the Print options
At this time, this course is available for private class and in-house training only. Please contact us for any inquiries.