Beginners Photoshop Course

Get up and going with Photoshop in 2 days with

Photoshop Getting Started

With our 2 day beginners Photoshop course you can improve your efficiency, improve your effectiveness and improve your future career potential all in one go.

Learn to harness the power of the worlds leading digital imaging package with one of the UK’s longest established Photoshop training providers, and benefit from our 25 year track record and wealth of experience.

Photoshop Getting Started is targeted at those who are new to the Photoshop package and wanting to learn the basics of using Photoshop to correct and retouch images, enhance images, use selections, masks and channels and lots more. The course is made up of 2 days of live online instructor led Photoshop training.

In addition to the live training you get extensive post course support including access to over 6 hours of video tutorials, covering all of the topics included in the course.

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£495.00

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Prices ex VAT. Highlander standard terms and conditions apply to all bookings.
Please contact us if you would like to arrange a private or onsite course.

About the Instructor

Andy Gardiner is an Adobe Certified Design Master, and CompTIA Certified Technical Trainer with over 20 years experience teaching the Adobe product range including over a decade working as an Adobe Certified Instructor.

He is the author of Designing the Adobe InDesign Way published by Packt Publishing, and as a specialist in the Adobe CC product range has amassed a total of 20 Adobe Certified Expert accreditations.

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The Photoshop Getting Started course starts at the beginning explaining topics such as resolution, colour modes and more.  You then move into Photoshop covering a wide range of topics and learning to maximise the potential of this complex software package.

Photoshop Getting Started

Exploring Photoshop

  • The panels
  • The tools
  • Preferences

Creating Documents

  • Settings
  • Resolution
  • Resizing Documents
  • Colour modes
  • Web vs Print
  • Mobile/tablet settings
  • Presets

Colour Theory

  • RGB v CMYK
  • Spot colours (eg: pantones)
  • Previewing for print
  • Gamut Warnings
  • Web colour
  • Channels

Layers

  • Why layers really matter
  • Creating layers
  • Organising layers
  • Blend modes and opacity
  • Smart layers v rasterised layers

Selections

  • Selection tools
  • Making selections
  • Adding to and removing from selections
  • Modifying selections
  • Saving your selections
  • Content aware selection tools
  • Selecting by colour range
  • Select and mask workspace

Layer Masks

  • What are layer masks
  • Creating layer masks
  • Editing layer masks
  • Disabling layer masks
  • Inverting layer masks
  • View the mask v the image
  • Creating selections from masks

Cloning and Repairing

  • Spot healing brush tool
  • Healing brush tool
  • Patch tool
  • Clone stamp tool
  • Content aware options
  • Content aware move
  • Content aware fill
  • Non-destructive cloning

Cropping

  • Cropping images
  • Crop settings
  • Deleting cropped pixels
  • Content aware cropping
  • Straighten tool
  • Generative Expand
  • Perspective cropping

Adjustment Commands

  • Hue / Saturation adjustments
  • Black and White adjustments
  • Brightness and Contrast adjustments
  • Levels adjustments
  • Photo Filter adjustments
  • Non destructive versus destructive adjustments
  • Editing your adjustments
  • The Adjustments Brush

Brushes

  • Changing brushes
  • Adjusting brush size
  • Adjusting hardness and spacing
  • Finding and loading new brushes

Filters

  • Non-destructive smart filters
  • Blurring
  • Sharpening
  • Liquify
  • Neural Filters
  • Filter Gallery

Text

  • Adding text
  • Formatting text
  • Adjusting Text
  • Applying Effects to Text
  • Show an image through text

Saving and Outputting

  • File Types
  • Save PSD files
  • Export Preferences & Quick Export
  • Save for Web

The Photoshop Getting Started course is designed to have you up and running with Photoshop as quickly as possible.  You will learn how to make accurate selections, work with multiple layers, mask areas of an image, correct problems in images and much more.

You will learn to

  • Understand colour modes and when to use which
  • Understand resolution and it's potential impact
  • Customise the Photoshop interface
  • Use a wide range of tools to create accurate selections
  • Hide and show areas within an image composition
  • Adjust colours within an image
  • Repair damage within your images such as scratches, stains etc..
  • Accurately crop and resize your images
  • Adjustment brightness, contrast, sharpness and more
  • Work with brushes on images
  • Add text to your images and format it
  • lots more.

Who should attend this course

Photoshop Getting Started is suitable for anybody who wants to learn to use Photoshop but has no previous experience. If you already have experience using Photoshop you might want to consider our Advanced Photoshop Training Course.

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

This course is a beginners Photoshop course. You should however be comfortable using a computer to perform functions such as copy and paste, and opening applications and files. You should also be comfortable using the internet, for example for browsing and interacting with websites.

Some sample comments from past delegates

"Brilliant - very helpful and considerate - I am a complete novice and did require some help - and it went so well."
Supplier & Budget Manager - Marketing, Aviva

"Simply fantastic, really approachable and made sure he answered all questions fully. Great location, great course content and great trainer"
Digital Marketing, The Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College

"I really enjoy attending these courses. Andy is a brilliant tutor and has heaps of patience. I also recommended my that my company use Highlander. Look forward to my next course"
Communications Officer, Murphy Group

"I have left the course understanding Photoshop far better than I could have hoped for."
Marketing Director, C W Fields & Son Ltd

"Great training venue. Small classroom. Andy was great. Really helpful and very knowledgeable."
Client Liaison Coordinator, NSF Health Sciences

"Starting with an explaination of RGB, DPI, etc was perfect starting point. Being asked to edit set pictures worked perfectly for learning the different tools. Great instructor, taught us everything we could possibly need."
Management Trainee, Fortem

"Very knowledgeable and approachable. Started from the very basic stuff and progressed into detail"
ICT Lecturer, Havering College of F & HE

"He is very clear and covers all areas - even if you go off the track and ask questions relevant to you. Third time I have been taught by Andy and learn quickly"
Marcom & Events Coordinator, Arthrocare

"Great instructor teaching the classes - Very helpful and was able to adopt to individual needs within the classroom."
Cartographer, RAF

"I feel he is an expert instructor. This is now the second course I've taken with him having done the InDesign course at an earlier date. He is very patient with my basic knowledge of Adobe products and all things technical and clearly knows his stuff!"
Marketing Exec, Rathbone

"Great instructor, extremely knowledgeable about Photoshop and very patient with all our daft questions!"
Business Retention Manager, Eastcoast

"The pace of the course was right. The other students were also at the same level so it helped. The teacher was helpful and patient and taught at the right pace and gave plenty of information and useful tips."
Communications Office, Ministry of Justice

"Andy was great and it was a fantastic, information filled couple of days. He was able to help me {{with patience}} with any problems I came across, and I have come away with a great foundation of Photoshop knowledge."
Marketing Coordinator, Signal Telecom

"Very friendly and more importantly very knowledgeable about PS. Clear and concise throughout the 2 days."
Marketing Executive, IDG Communications

"Great instructor - led through. Good examples. Great answers to questions. Pleasure to be taught by."
Apprentice Manager, O2

"Great instructor - led through. Good examples. Great answers to questions. Pleasure to be taught by."
Proposition Development Manager, John Lewis

"Easy going style, flexible, helpful, answered all questions"
eLearning Developer, City of York Council

"Great instructor, incredibly keen and determined to pass on essential knowledge. He exhibited endless patience."
Officer, MOD

"He certainly knows his subject and was more than happy to go off piste (more in depth) when time allowed."
Learning Resource Adviser, Blackpool Fylde College

"Great instructor, incredibly keen and determined to pass on essential knowledge. He exhibited endless patience."
Officer, MOD

"Knowledgeable, approachable, all you could ask for in an instructor."
Designer, Irwin Mitchell

The Photoshop Getting Started course starts at the beginning explaining topics such as resolution, colour modes and more.  You then move into Photoshop covering a wide range of topics and learning to maximise the potential of this complex software package.

Photoshop Getting Started

Exploring Photoshop

  • The panels
  • The tools
  • Preferences

Creating Documents

  • Settings
  • Resolution
  • Resizing Documents
  • Colour modes
  • Web vs Print
  • Mobile/tablet settings
  • Presets

Colour Theory

  • RGB v CMYK
  • Spot colours (eg: pantones)
  • Previewing for print
  • Gamut Warnings
  • Web colour
  • Channels

Layers

  • Why layers really matter
  • Creating layers
  • Organising layers
  • Blend modes and opacity
  • Smart layers v rasterised layers

Selections

  • Selection tools
  • Making selections
  • Adding to and removing from selections
  • Modifying selections
  • Saving your selections
  • Content aware selection tools
  • Selecting by colour range
  • Select and mask workspace

Layer Masks

  • What are layer masks
  • Creating layer masks
  • Editing layer masks
  • Disabling layer masks
  • Inverting layer masks
  • View the mask v the image
  • Creating selections from masks

Cloning and Repairing

  • Spot healing brush tool
  • Healing brush tool
  • Patch tool
  • Clone stamp tool
  • Content aware options
  • Content aware move
  • Content aware fill
  • Non-destructive cloning

Cropping

  • Cropping images
  • Crop settings
  • Deleting cropped pixels
  • Content aware cropping
  • Straighten tool
  • Generative Expand
  • Perspective cropping

Adjustment Commands

  • Hue / Saturation adjustments
  • Black and White adjustments
  • Brightness and Contrast adjustments
  • Levels adjustments
  • Photo Filter adjustments
  • Non destructive versus destructive adjustments
  • Editing your adjustments
  • The Adjustments Brush

Brushes

  • Changing brushes
  • Adjusting brush size
  • Adjusting hardness and spacing
  • Finding and loading new brushes

Filters

  • Non-destructive smart filters
  • Blurring
  • Sharpening
  • Liquify
  • Neural Filters
  • Filter Gallery

Text

  • Adding text
  • Formatting text
  • Adjusting Text
  • Applying Effects to Text
  • Show an image through text

Saving and Outputting

  • File Types
  • Save PSD files
  • Export Preferences & Quick Export
  • Save for Web

The Photoshop Getting Started course is designed to have you up and running with Photoshop as quickly as possible.  You will learn how to make accurate selections, work with multiple layers, mask areas of an image, correct problems in images and much more.

You will learn to

  • Understand colour modes and when to use which
  • Understand resolution and it's potential impact
  • Customise the Photoshop interface
  • Use a wide range of tools to create accurate selections
  • Hide and show areas within an image composition
  • Adjust colours within an image
  • Repair damage within your images such as scratches, stains etc..
  • Accurately crop and resize your images
  • Adjustment brightness, contrast, sharpness and more
  • Work with brushes on images
  • Add text to your images and format it
  • lots more.

Who should attend this course

Photoshop Getting Started is suitable for anybody who wants to learn to use Photoshop but has no previous experience. If you already have experience using Photoshop you might want to consider our Advanced Photoshop Training Course.

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

This course is a beginners Photoshop course. You should however be comfortable using a computer to perform functions such as copy and paste, and opening applications and files. You should also be comfortable using the internet, for example for browsing and interacting with websites.

Some sample comments from past delegates

"Brilliant - very helpful and considerate - I am a complete novice and did require some help - and it went so well."
Supplier & Budget Manager - Marketing, Aviva

"Simply fantastic, really approachable and made sure he answered all questions fully. Great location, great course content and great trainer"
Digital Marketing, The Cabinet Office Emergency Planning College

"I really enjoy attending these courses. Andy is a brilliant tutor and has heaps of patience. I also recommended my that my company use Highlander. Look forward to my next course"
Communications Officer, Murphy Group

"I have left the course understanding Photoshop far better than I could have hoped for."
Marketing Director, C W Fields & Son Ltd

"Great training venue. Small classroom. Andy was great. Really helpful and very knowledgeable."
Client Liaison Coordinator, NSF Health Sciences

"Starting with an explaination of RGB, DPI, etc was perfect starting point. Being asked to edit set pictures worked perfectly for learning the different tools. Great instructor, taught us everything we could possibly need."
Management Trainee, Fortem

"Very knowledgeable and approachable. Started from the very basic stuff and progressed into detail"
ICT Lecturer, Havering College of F & HE

"He is very clear and covers all areas - even if you go off the track and ask questions relevant to you. Third time I have been taught by Andy and learn quickly"
Marcom & Events Coordinator, Arthrocare

"Great instructor teaching the classes - Very helpful and was able to adopt to individual needs within the classroom."
Cartographer, RAF

"I feel he is an expert instructor. This is now the second course I've taken with him having done the InDesign course at an earlier date. He is very patient with my basic knowledge of Adobe products and all things technical and clearly knows his stuff!"
Marketing Exec, Rathbone

"Great instructor, extremely knowledgeable about Photoshop and very patient with all our daft questions!"
Business Retention Manager, Eastcoast

"The pace of the course was right. The other students were also at the same level so it helped. The teacher was helpful and patient and taught at the right pace and gave plenty of information and useful tips."
Communications Office, Ministry of Justice

"Andy was great and it was a fantastic, information filled couple of days. He was able to help me {{with patience}} with any problems I came across, and I have come away with a great foundation of Photoshop knowledge."
Marketing Coordinator, Signal Telecom

"Very friendly and more importantly very knowledgeable about PS. Clear and concise throughout the 2 days."
Marketing Executive, IDG Communications

"Great instructor - led through. Good examples. Great answers to questions. Pleasure to be taught by."
Apprentice Manager, O2

"Great instructor - led through. Good examples. Great answers to questions. Pleasure to be taught by."
Proposition Development Manager, John Lewis

"Easy going style, flexible, helpful, answered all questions"
eLearning Developer, City of York Council

"Great instructor, incredibly keen and determined to pass on essential knowledge. He exhibited endless patience."
Officer, MOD

"He certainly knows his subject and was more than happy to go off piste (more in depth) when time allowed."
Learning Resource Adviser, Blackpool Fylde College

"Great instructor, incredibly keen and determined to pass on essential knowledge. He exhibited endless patience."
Officer, MOD

"Knowledgeable, approachable, all you could ask for in an instructor."
Designer, Irwin Mitchell

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