Photoshop Advanced Course

Take your Photoshop skills to the next level in 2 days with

Photoshop Advanced

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 taking the 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 hands on training which can be completed live online. 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.

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£495.00

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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 Advanced Techniques course covers the more advanced features in Photoshop looking at topics like actions, advanced masking techniques, colour correction, content aware cloning, working with raw files and lots more.

Photoshop Advanced Techniques

Advanced Selections

  • Recap of modern selection techniques
  • Selections based on channels
  • Transforming selections
  • Select and mask workspace
  • Selection Brush Tool

Advanced Masking

  • Creating masks
  • Editing masks
  • Gradients and brushes on masks
  • Filters on masks
  • Mask density / feathering
  • Inverting masks
  • Selections from masks, previewing masks and disabling

Bridge

  • Organising your work
  • Finding files
  • Labelling and rating files
  • Meta-data
  • Setting colour management

Cloning Techniques

  • Clone source panel
  • Patch, spot healing and healing brush
  • Non-destructive cloning
  • Content Aware Fill
  • Content Aware Scale

Perspective Cloning

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

Correcting Colour & Exposure

  • The Histogram
  • Using levels and curves to adjust images
  • Colour balance
  • Match colour
  • Replacing colour
  • Using hue / saturation to adjust colours
  • Correcting colour casts
  • What are lookup tables
  • Creating lookup tables
  • Importing and using lookup tables
  • Using gradient maps

Smart Objects

  • Smart layers
  • Smart filters
  • Warping layers
  • Smart effects
  • Nested smart objects
  • Placing Illustrator files
  • Placing other files

File & Edit Menu Secrets

  • Creating stacks
  • PhotoMerge
  • Import video frames to layers
  • Creating contact sheets
  • Generative Fill
  • Sky Replacement

Brushes

  • Size, hardness, spacing
  • Opacity
  • Kyle's brushes (free)
  • Using symmetry
  • What is the history brush

Filter techniques

  • Sharpening
  • Blurring
  • Distorting
  • Neural Filters
  • Removing noise
  • Correcting fish-eye/wide-angle issues
  • Lighting filters

Perspective Warp

  • Layout mode
  • Warp mode
  • Masking tricks

Puppet Warp

  • Adding Pins
  • Adjusting Pins
  • Selecting Pins

Actions

  • Using actions
  • Adding actions
  • Creating actions
  • Editing actions
  • Where to find actions

CC Libraries

  • What are Libraries
  • Working with Libraries
  • Creating Libraries
  • Collaborating and Sharing
  • What can they hold

Camera raw

  • Advantages of Camera Raw
  • Editing in Camera Raw
  • Full size view
  • Auto corrections
  • Localised Adjustments
  • Camera Raw as a filter

The Photoshop Advanced course introduces more advanced skills which are designed to improve your performance and allow you to make more complex edits to your images.

You will learn to

  • Apply advanced masking techniques to improve your masks
  • Clone areas of an image in perspective, for example clone one side of a cube onto another side
  • Use more advanced selection techniques to improve your selections
  • Correct colour issues in images for example removing a colour cast.
  • Working with smart objects for reversible non-destructive changes
  • Using stacks for example to automatically remove items from a series of images
  • Use actions to record and reuse changes to images, as well as load prebuilt actions.
  • Work with the Camera raw interface to adjust raw files taken from your camera
  • lots more.

Who should attend this course

This Photoshop course is suitable for anybody who already has experience of working with Photoshop. You should have already attended the Photoshop Getting Started 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.

Some sample comments from past delegates

"Made the course content easy to understand - Described clearly step by step what we needed to do. Friendly and helpful. Tailored the course to our needs"
Graphic Designer, Squire Patton Boggs

"Really friendly and approachable. Andy made everything clear and answered all the questions we threw at him! Covered a bit of everything and brought up a lot of tools we didn't know existed! "
Lead Graphic Designer, Saville Group

"Andy is a great instructor and covered a good range of useful photoshop tools that can be used daily within the workplace."
Artworker, ASG Spark

"Everything was very thorough and Andy definitely knew what he was talking about, giving examples on everything."
Graphic Designer, Starbots Creative

"Excellent tuition in techniques and actions that were previously unknown to me. Great instruction"
Creative, Joe Browns

"Andy was really clear with this teaching and took us through step by step with all the teaching. It was very easy to follow and I have learnt a lot."
Senior Product Designer, Interface

"Lots of content included. The second day allowed for the processes learned to be used on examples more related to the industry in which we will use them, e.g. colouring for printed textiles."
Designer, Kanta

"Andy is a knowledgeable instructor and can answer any question asked regarding Photoshop. He structures the session efficiently which allows the topics to be covered thoroughly and quickly."
Forensic Imaging Officer, Derbyshire Constabulary

"Answered all questions I had with great knowledge of the software and tailored course to how I would apply it to what I do at work."
Graphic Designer, Kingstown

"Fantastic! Extremely good at answering all my difficult questions! Very informative and helpful training. Will definitely be back for more!"
Product Designer, Glaxo Smith Kline

"Great, friendly, knowledgeable, engaging"
Communications Officer, NHS

"He was really helpful and answered my questions even though they may have been obvious."
Intranet content administrator, HM Courts & Tribunals Service

"I liked that the instructor asked each individual about their specific needs to ensure that everyone was getting the most out of each course."
Print Designer, Citilites

"He gave excellent instruction and worked at our pace making learning beneficial. He has an amazing knowledge of the subject and pitched it at my level. Overall an excellent course which i will find useful in the workplace."
Police Air Observer, Gwent Police

"He is a very knowledgeable and able instructor. Willing to answer any questions and help with any problems."
MD, IpsoFacto

"He's the man! A broad range of tools are covered and learnt"
Marketing Assistant, The Univerity of Sheffield.

"He is great, very welcoming and puts me at ease right away. He clearly knows his stuff but doesn't come across cocky or anything, he is really easy to get on with and ask for help.!"
Designer, Taylors of Harrogate

"Classroom and technology provided was perfect for the course. Instructor was very knowledgable and able to answer all questions asked and more."
Video and Image Producer, Zoological Society of London

"Very friendly, good teacher. Learning a high amount of new techniques and skills within Photoshop."
Photographer, Clear Channel

"Really knowledgeable and very helpful! learn't everything i needed to do in a simpler way."
Retail Graphic Designer, Lipsy

"Fantastic! Genuinely the most knowledgeable instructor I have ever had for a course. Kept the course interesting, patient and all materials well prepared. Excellent."
Project Manager, Leicestershire Police

"He is a great instructor, he takes the time to go over things if you need to again."
Graphic Designer, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

"Really knows his subject and nothing is a problem for him to cover when one of us are behind the drag curve. Excellent instructor techniques and manner,full of enthusiasm yet paced at our level."
Photographer, RAF Search and Rescue HQ

"Fantastic instructor, incredibly knowledgeable and very helpful."
Retoucher, Univerity of Portsmouth

"He was a fantastic instructor. He was extremely knowledgeable and a great teacher. He took the time to answer questions and walk through each step as quickly or as slowly as the trainees needed."
Marketing Executive, SBL

"Knew a large and diverse range of skills to use on photoshop as well as having different ways of doing the same task, friendly and approachable if I had any questions"
Graphic Designer, Kingstown

"Great course - well paced and easy to follow. Having been self trained in photoshop it was great to see best practice and tools to help improve my knowledge."
Merchant Services Advisor, Rakuten

The Photoshop Advanced Techniques course covers the more advanced features in Photoshop looking at topics like actions, advanced masking techniques, colour correction, content aware cloning, working with raw files and lots more.

Photoshop Advanced Techniques

Advanced Selections

  • Recap of modern selection techniques
  • Selections based on channels
  • Transforming selections
  • Select and mask workspace
  • Selection Brush Tool

Advanced Masking

  • Creating masks
  • Editing masks
  • Gradients and brushes on masks
  • Filters on masks
  • Mask density / feathering
  • Inverting masks
  • Selections from masks, previewing masks and disabling

Bridge

  • Organising your work
  • Finding files
  • Labelling and rating files
  • Meta-data
  • Setting colour management

Cloning Techniques

  • Clone source panel
  • Patch, spot healing and healing brush
  • Non-destructive cloning
  • Content Aware Fill
  • Content Aware Scale

Perspective Cloning

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

Correcting Colour & Exposure

  • The Histogram
  • Using levels and curves to adjust images
  • Colour balance
  • Match colour
  • Replacing colour
  • Using hue / saturation to adjust colours
  • Correcting colour casts
  • What are lookup tables
  • Creating lookup tables
  • Importing and using lookup tables
  • Using gradient maps

Smart Objects

  • Smart layers
  • Smart filters
  • Warping layers
  • Smart effects
  • Nested smart objects
  • Placing Illustrator files
  • Placing other files

File & Edit Menu Secrets

  • Creating stacks
  • PhotoMerge
  • Import video frames to layers
  • Creating contact sheets
  • Generative Fill
  • Sky Replacement

Brushes

  • Size, hardness, spacing
  • Opacity
  • Kyle's brushes (free)
  • Using symmetry
  • What is the history brush

Filter techniques

  • Sharpening
  • Blurring
  • Distorting
  • Neural Filters
  • Removing noise
  • Correcting fish-eye/wide-angle issues
  • Lighting filters

Perspective Warp

  • Layout mode
  • Warp mode
  • Masking tricks

Puppet Warp

  • Adding Pins
  • Adjusting Pins
  • Selecting Pins

Actions

  • Using actions
  • Adding actions
  • Creating actions
  • Editing actions
  • Where to find actions

CC Libraries

  • What are Libraries
  • Working with Libraries
  • Creating Libraries
  • Collaborating and Sharing
  • What can they hold

Camera raw

  • Advantages of Camera Raw
  • Editing in Camera Raw
  • Full size view
  • Auto corrections
  • Localised Adjustments
  • Camera Raw as a filter

The Photoshop Advanced course introduces more advanced skills which are designed to improve your performance and allow you to make more complex edits to your images.

You will learn to

  • Apply advanced masking techniques to improve your masks
  • Clone areas of an image in perspective, for example clone one side of a cube onto another side
  • Use more advanced selection techniques to improve your selections
  • Correct colour issues in images for example removing a colour cast.
  • Working with smart objects for reversible non-destructive changes
  • Using stacks for example to automatically remove items from a series of images
  • Use actions to record and reuse changes to images, as well as load prebuilt actions.
  • Work with the Camera raw interface to adjust raw files taken from your camera
  • lots more.

Who should attend this course

This Photoshop course is suitable for anybody who already has experience of working with Photoshop. You should have already attended the Photoshop Getting Started 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.

Some sample comments from past delegates

"Made the course content easy to understand - Described clearly step by step what we needed to do. Friendly and helpful. Tailored the course to our needs"
Graphic Designer, Squire Patton Boggs

"Really friendly and approachable. Andy made everything clear and answered all the questions we threw at him! Covered a bit of everything and brought up a lot of tools we didn't know existed! "
Lead Graphic Designer, Saville Group

"Andy is a great instructor and covered a good range of useful photoshop tools that can be used daily within the workplace."
Artworker, ASG Spark

"Everything was very thorough and Andy definitely knew what he was talking about, giving examples on everything."
Graphic Designer, Starbots Creative

"Excellent tuition in techniques and actions that were previously unknown to me. Great instruction"
Creative, Joe Browns

"Andy was really clear with this teaching and took us through step by step with all the teaching. It was very easy to follow and I have learnt a lot."
Senior Product Designer, Interface

"Lots of content included. The second day allowed for the processes learned to be used on examples more related to the industry in which we will use them, e.g. colouring for printed textiles."
Designer, Kanta

"Andy is a knowledgeable instructor and can answer any question asked regarding Photoshop. He structures the session efficiently which allows the topics to be covered thoroughly and quickly."
Forensic Imaging Officer, Derbyshire Constabulary

"Answered all questions I had with great knowledge of the software and tailored course to how I would apply it to what I do at work."
Graphic Designer, Kingstown

"Fantastic! Extremely good at answering all my difficult questions! Very informative and helpful training. Will definitely be back for more!"
Product Designer, Glaxo Smith Kline

"Great, friendly, knowledgeable, engaging"
Communications Officer, NHS

"He was really helpful and answered my questions even though they may have been obvious."
Intranet content administrator, HM Courts & Tribunals Service

"I liked that the instructor asked each individual about their specific needs to ensure that everyone was getting the most out of each course."
Print Designer, Citilites

"He gave excellent instruction and worked at our pace making learning beneficial. He has an amazing knowledge of the subject and pitched it at my level. Overall an excellent course which i will find useful in the workplace."
Police Air Observer, Gwent Police

"He is a very knowledgeable and able instructor. Willing to answer any questions and help with any problems."
MD, IpsoFacto

"He's the man! A broad range of tools are covered and learnt"
Marketing Assistant, The Univerity of Sheffield.

"He is great, very welcoming and puts me at ease right away. He clearly knows his stuff but doesn't come across cocky or anything, he is really easy to get on with and ask for help.!"
Designer, Taylors of Harrogate

"Classroom and technology provided was perfect for the course. Instructor was very knowledgable and able to answer all questions asked and more."
Video and Image Producer, Zoological Society of London

"Very friendly, good teacher. Learning a high amount of new techniques and skills within Photoshop."
Photographer, Clear Channel

"Really knowledgeable and very helpful! learn't everything i needed to do in a simpler way."
Retail Graphic Designer, Lipsy

"Fantastic! Genuinely the most knowledgeable instructor I have ever had for a course. Kept the course interesting, patient and all materials well prepared. Excellent."
Project Manager, Leicestershire Police

"He is a great instructor, he takes the time to go over things if you need to again."
Graphic Designer, Yorkshire Wildlife Trust

"Really knows his subject and nothing is a problem for him to cover when one of us are behind the drag curve. Excellent instructor techniques and manner,full of enthusiasm yet paced at our level."
Photographer, RAF Search and Rescue HQ

"Fantastic instructor, incredibly knowledgeable and very helpful."
Retoucher, Univerity of Portsmouth

"He was a fantastic instructor. He was extremely knowledgeable and a great teacher. He took the time to answer questions and walk through each step as quickly or as slowly as the trainees needed."
Marketing Executive, SBL

"Knew a large and diverse range of skills to use on photoshop as well as having different ways of doing the same task, friendly and approachable if I had any questions"
Graphic Designer, Kingstown

"Great course - well paced and easy to follow. Having been self trained in photoshop it was great to see best practice and tools to help improve my knowledge."
Merchant Services Advisor, Rakuten

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