Photoshop Training - Advanced

Course Dates

Click below to book your place or call us on 0800 156 0777


RRP: £495.00
Web Special: £450.00

Maximum Class Size

In order to ensure every student gets the most out of the course we have a maximum class size of:

London

8 Delegates

York

5 Delegates

Our Advanced Photoshop course lets you build on your existing skills and explore some of the more advanced techniques available when working with this increasingly powerful software package.

Are you working in digital imaging, professional photography, graphic design, publishing or another role that involves day to day use of Photoshop. If so then this course will make your life easier and you'll see an immediate performance improvement thanks to the new skills you learn by attending.

About this Photoshop Course

Photoshop Advanced Techniques is focused on people who have used Photoshop for some time, or have already attended our beginners Photoshop training course.

The course is made up of 2 days of advanced classroom based Photoshop instruction which can be completed either at our London or York centres or your own location. This is then supported and extended by 12 months access to our learning management system containing video tutorials, exercises, sample files and instructor led support forums.

The Instructors

Our Photoshop instructors all have years of experience working with Photoshop in a professional capacity and have all attained Adobe Certified Expert and Adobe Certified Instructor status. Equally importantly they have many years of real world experience working with the products, and this is something which is reflected in the courses.

The Audience 

This Photoshop course is suitable for anybody who already has experience of working with Photoshop. You should have already attended our basic Photoshop training course or have equivalent experience.

If you are unsure which Photoshop course is most suitable then why not try our free Photoshop Skills Test to help you test your current skills.

The Prerequisites

This course is an advanced Photoshop class. You should have already attended the basic Photoshop course or have equivalent experience before attempting this course.

Photoshop Course - Topics

The following modules are covered in this course:

Bridge and Mini-bridge

  • Organising your work
  • Finding files
  • Labelling and rating files
  • Meta-data
  • Filtering files
  • Creating presentations and contact sheets

Advanced masking

  • Selection tips and shortcuts
  • Quick mask mode
  • Filters and Quick Mask
  • Refining your selection (Refine edge)

Cloning techniques

  • Clone source panel
  • Patching

Perspective cloning

  • The vanishing point command
  • Creating a perspective grid
  • Cloning within the perspective grid
  • Pasting into the perspective grid
  • Multiple perspective grids

Selection techniques

  • Using Modify
  • Using Grow
  • UsingSimilar
  • Colour Range

Correcting colour

  • Using levels and curves to adjust your images
  • Colour Balance
  • Match colour
  • Replacing colour
  • Using Hue/Saturation to adjust an image's colour

Gradients

  • Creating gradients
  • Using gradients
  • Gradient mapping

Smart objects

  • Smart layers
  • Smart filters
  • Warping layers
  • Placing Illustrator files
  • Placing other files

Stacks

  • Creating stacks
  • Panoramas
  • Photo merging
  • Stack mode
  • Auto-blend
  • Auto-align

Actions

  • Using actions
  • Adding actions
  • Creating actions
  • Editing actions

Filter techniques

  • Sharpening
  • Blurring
  • Distorting
  • Adding noise
  • Getting rid of noise
  • Correcting fish-eye/wide-angle issues

Camera Raw

  • Advantages of Camera Raw
  • Editing in Camera Raw
  • Full size view
  • Auto corrections
  • Localised Adjustments
  • Previewing Adjustments
  • Histogram
  • Saving in Camera Raw
  • Reusing Camera Raw Settings

Video

  • Opening video files
  • The timeline
  • Creating a video layer
  • Modifying a video layer
  • Adding text to video
  • Splitting a video layer
  • Cloning Content
  • Adding a transition
  • Adding audio
  • Animation
  • Export to video

3D in Photoshop

  • Setting 3D preferences
  • Creating 3D Models
  • Creating 3D text
  • Drawing 3D Objects
  • Object, Camera and Mesh
  • Rendering 3D Models

* These units are covered as online learning modules and may be covered in the classroom.

Previous Feedback From Our Photoshop Courses

We thought you might like to know what some past delegates thought of our Photoshop courses:

"This class was very good, I learned a lot and Alex explained every single question of mine with explanatory examples."
Project Officer, The Open University

"Very friendly, professional and helpful. A good quick pace, not dwelling too much on one issue"
Architectural Assistant, Benoy

"Extremely knowledgable and obviously experienced within the media business. A very good course, I learnt a great deal and consolidated much of my own knowledge."
Lecturer, Kirklees College

"Very clear, the instructor kept me interested in the course throughout."
Designer, Per Una

If you are looking for an advanced Photoshop training course that actually works then call us on 0800 156 0777.