Photoshop Expert Training Course - On-site and Online UK Wide

Expert Level Photoshop Training Course for Creative Professionals

This one-day Expert Adobe Photoshop training course is intended for advanced graphic designers who are looking to fine tune their design skillsets and to take their creative accomplishments to the next level for 'pixel perfect', lossless results.

On our Expert PhotoShop course you will learn how to work with Camera Raw for lossless editing which brings out the full potential of your photography, work with specialist masks, effects, blending and brushes, gain expert knowledge of portraiture editing and discover how to work with video in PhotoShop.

If yourself, or your design team, are looking to further your PhotoShop knowledge and skills to become desktop publishing design virtuosos, maestros or wizards, then this is the right course for you.

The course is available for users of PhotoShop Creative Cloud subscriptions plus those using legacy Creative Suite versions such as CS5 and CS6, and for Mac or Windows operating systems.

This Photoshop power user course is delivered on-site at your workplace or as live virtual classroom for one-to-one sessions and small groups of up to 10 delegates.

Our expert level graphic design and photo compositing course can be combined with the Beginners, Intermediate and Advanced PhotoShop training courses to create a two to four-day training programme. Alternatively, you can also blend the training with other Adobe applications, or opt for our five day Creative Cloud Master Class.

PhotoShop Expert Training Course Prerequisites

This course is aimed at experienced design professionals who are already comfortable working with PhotoShop at a fairly advanced level. In order to attend this course you should already have Adobe PhotoShop skills and knowledge equivalent to our PhotoShop Advanced training course.

Intended Audience:

This course is aimed at individuals and groups who need to improve their PhotoShop design and image editing skills for purposes such as:

• Desktop Publishing
• Photography
• Graphic Design
• Web Design
• Advertising and Marketing
• Corporate Literature and Branding

On-site PhotoShop Expert Courses in the United Kingdom

Our 'face-to-face' closed courses for Adobe PhotoShop are delivered as private courses for your delegates offering more flexibility than off-the-shelf public courses and topics taught can often be tailored to match your learning needs. One of our trainers will discuss your training requirements with you prior to the course.

These Adobe PhotoShop training courses are conducted at your workplace for small groups and are exceptional value and very popular. You will usually need to book at least one month in advance. We can attend anywhere in the UK (for overseas requirements, please enquire).

With our on-site Adobe PhotoShop courses our regional trainers come to your workplace throughout England, bringing the training to you regardless of whether you are in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds or anywhere else. This offers a really cost-effective way to train small groups and entire departments in the comfort of familiar surroundings from the Capital City of London to The Cotswolds, from Hampshire to Northamptonshire, West Midlands to West Yorkshire, Sussex to South Yorkshire, Norfolk to Northumberland, Lancashire to Lincolnshire, Cambridgeshire to Gloucestershire, Bristol to Berkshire, Essex to the East Riding and everywhere inbetween.

Live Virtual Classroom Photoshop Expert Courses in the United Kingdom and Beyond

If you have a group of staff that you would prefer to be tutored remotely rather than having a trainer come out to you these small-group Photoshop courses are also available Online as live virtual, interactive training sessions from the comfort of your own office or workplace. These live instructor-led courses are taught via MS Teams video conferencing.

Why choose virtual learning? As we are all becoming more used to Online learning and live virtual meetings it has become apparent that the virtual classroom method of delivery has many advantages over traditional face-to-face learning venues.

If you are looking for local training near you, then you can't get any closer to your doorstep than you can with virtual learning.

Our virtual learning PhotoShop courses cater for groups of up to ten people and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with your trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is further enhanced by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

You can find out how to set up Microsoft Teams for a live Online virtual course here (Virtual Learning with MS Teams).

Commercial and Corporate PhotoShop Expert Courses for the Public and Private Sectors

How Many People Should Attend Our Private Adobe PhotoShop Expert Courses?

Whilst the number of people who attend our private Adobe PhotoShop courses is essentially up to you and dependant upon the number of learners you have who need to receive the training (up to our ten delegate per course maximum), we encourage all of our clients to keep your class sizes small where possible. This provides a more personable and effective learning experience for you and allows the trainer to give more individual attention to each and every student.

What is the Teaching Method for Our Adobe PhotoShop Expert Courses?

The teaching method for our private PhotoShop courses is Instructor-led training (ILT), which means that our courses are engaging, immersive, hands-on and interactive, and thereby facilitate more effective learning and information retention. With this participatory learning method your staff will retain information better, whether they are studying PhotoShop in-person or via live virtual classroom. And, whilst we are happy to provide lectures, demonstrations and show-and-tells for larger groups (plus drop-in surgeries for ad hoc technical advice and explanation), the instructor-led training approach is by far the most reliable teaching methodology to bring your PhotoShop know-how to life in a small-class-size setting.

How Long are Our Expert PhotoShop Courses?

Usual teaching hours for this one-day course are 9.30AM to 4.30PM with an hour for lunch and two short breaks morning and afternoon. This timetable is fairly standard across UK training providers and gives six hours of hands-on PhotoShop learning, which is an optimal day's training when it comes to comfortably absorbing knowledge, undertaking practice exercises and retaining information.

If you need an earlier or later start time for your course please let us know and we will do our best to accommodate you.

Courses are delivered week days, Monday to Friday during normal business hours.

More About Our Adobe PhotoShop Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses

• Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Adobe PhotoShop training provided in-person with step-by-step demonstrations, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Q&A courses: Dynamic and interactive Adobe PhotoShop courses with plenty of time for questions and answers.
  
  
• Flexible Courses: Professional tuition that's tailored to match your team's present knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Adobe PhotoShop functions, design features and creative techniques that your trainee staff, co-workers or employees need the most.
  
  
• Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate Adobe PhotoShop training for small group sizes with a maximum of 10 learners on any course.
  
  
• Scalable Courses: Can be run as a single course, tutorial or workshop; Or as a training rollout bringing whole teams, departments and organisations up to the benchmark level of Adobe PhotoShop knowledge and confidence that you require.

What is the difference between Adobe Creative Cloud and Adobe Creative Suite?

Adobe Creative Cloud is Adobe's platform of Cloud-based creative design and desk-top publishing applications and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign and Illustrator and so forth) which is licensed as a subscription-based service either for individual CC products, or for the whole of the Creative Cloud suite.

Adobe Creative Suite is Adobe's legacy 'On-Premise' suite of creative design and desk-top publishing applications and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign and Illustrator and so forth) which is licensed with a traditional EULA (End User License Agreement) whereby the software is physically installed on your device both for individual Creative Suite products or the whole suite of software applications.

All of our closed course Adobe training programmes can be delivered on either Creative Cloud (CC) or Creative Suite (CS).

Expert Adobe Photoshop Training Course Outline

We specialise in delivering flexible training programmes and the actual course content, topics and syllabus taught will often vary depending upon your learning requirements and upon the version of the software taught.

1. Working with Camera Raw in Photoshop
   • What is Camera RAW? (non-destructive image editing)¹
   • Importing RAW Files /Opening RAW Files
   • Adobe Camera RAW Workflow
   • RAW Tools and Interface
   • Lens Distortion and Perspective
   • Cropping and Straightening Horizons
   • Colour Casts² and Creative Colour
   • Sharpening and Noise
   • Shadows and Highlights
   • Contrast /Clarity /Dehaze
   • Graduated and Radial Gradients
   • Adjustment Tools
   
   
2. Photographic Effects in Photoshop
   • Filter Gallery
   • Using Bokeh (depth of field effects), Iris Blur, Tilt and Shift, Field Blur
   • Advanced Sharpening Techniques
   • Blend If³
   • Levels
   • Hue and Saturation
   
   
3. Layer Masks in Photoshop
   • Creating a Layer Mask
   • Working with Transparency in Layer Masks
   • Blend Modes /Blending Images
   • Using Brushes for Effect
   • Adding Textures and Patterns to Layer Masks
   
   
4. Enhancing Portrait Photography in PhotoShop
   • Culling Images
   • Evening Out Skin Tones
   • Frequency Separation⁴ for Mixed Skin Tone
   • Spot Healing for Blemishes
   • High Pass Filter⁵ with Blends
   • Toning and Complementary Colours
   
   
5. Working with Short Videos in Photoshop
   • Importing Video
   • Photoshop Timeline
   • Video Layers
   • Editing /Modify Video Layers
   • Adding Text to Video
   • Adding Audio to Video
   • Video Export
   
   

Notes: Adobe PhotoShop Expert Level Terminology in Layman's Terms

1) When you are working in Camera RAW in PhotoShop you are editing an uncompressed version of your photograph with all of the original digital information captured by your camera. This gives you the potential to produce finished work in PhotoShop with much more detail and image quality.

Note also though, that when you view unedited RAW files directly they can appear blurry, because no noise reduction filter has been applied in this format and because they contain more data than the file formats you may have previously been used to. You will learn editing techniques on our Expert PhotoShop course for handling this and producing crisp, clear images when working in Camera RAW.

2) Simply put, a Colour Cast is an unnatural, or unaesthetic mixture, wash or tint of colours in a photograph caused by external lighting conditions, your flash or lack thereof. In PhotoShop you can use the "Remove Color Cast" tool to compensate for and correct this.

3) Blend If in PhotoShop allows you to mask / blend a layer conditionally based upon the Colour Channels in the layer beneath it.

4) Frequency Separation is a technique which allows you to work on the texture of an image without affecting the colour or brightness and (conversely) also allows you to work on the colour of an image without affecting the texture. When it comes to both portraiture and landscape photography, Frequency Separation gives you highly granular control over image repair and retouching.

5) In PhotoShop you can use the High Pass Filter to discover and highlight edges that you want to sharpen. The High Pass Filter increases the contrast of the edges by letting through high frequency information and reducing or blocking low frequency information. When you use the High Pass Filter you can set the pixel radius to determine the area of adjoining pixels (outside of the center pixels - the edges) which will be dimmed. This makes it a great tool for smoothing / softening out skin tone in an image.

There is also an inverse technique known as Low Pass Filtering which achieves the opposite affect. Fairly complex mathematical equations control the whole process which we don't need to worry too much about here.

Available Photoshop Courses

PhotoShop Beginners Training

- entry level PhotoShop course including working with layouts, colour, image repair, palettes and paint tools

PhotoShop Intermediate Training

- more indepth image manipulation including working with layers, colour, typography, masks and channels

PhotoShop Advanced Training

- sophisticated photo editing techniques including working with advanced layers, masks, channels and artistic effects

PhotoShop Expert Training

- fine tune your graphic design and photo compositing skills and learn how to give your work a professional creative edge

PhotoShop Masterclass Training

- four-day intensive PhotoShop course from 'zero to hero'

PhotoShop Elements Training

- learn to use PhotoShop Elements proficiently for working with images and photos

SLR Digital Photography with Photoshop Training

- combines the full digital photography process into one course, from taking SLR photographs to editing techniques

Creative Cloud Training - 5 day Master Class

- a full journey through the process of image manipulation, design and publishing using PhotoShop, Illustrator and InDesign

Desktop Publishing & Adobe Software Training Reviews from our UK Clients

Just wanted to put on record how pleased we were with the standard of training we received last week. The trainer is a credit to your organisation and we will certainly not hesitate in organising training through yourself again as required in the future.
M Roberts, Cheshire and Wirral Partnership NHS Foundation Trust (PhotoShop beginners training Chester, Cheshire)

I've been getting some feedback from our delegates saying that they enjoyed their day immensely, got so much out of it and thought that their trainer was ace!
E Stephenson, Studio Cambridge (Beginners Illustrator Training Cambridge, East of England)

I just wanted to let you know that we had a fantastic time yesterday in your training session! What a fab, funny enthusiastic lady. We're all feeling a bit more confident now in using this tool in our jobs. Can you pass on our best wishes to her.
C Farthing, Sue Ryder (Beginners PhotoShop Training Northampton, Northants)

I just wanted to drop you a quick note to say thank you to the trainer for the training on Friday. Everyone really enjoyed it and we found it really beneficial. We do hope to use you again in the future for other training purposes.
C Boothroyd, Bako North Western Ltd (PhotoShop and InDesign Training Preston, Lancashire)

The trainer was lovely and incredibly helpful tailoring the training to our needs, please pass on our thanks.
D Kilty, Hitchcock Wright and Partners (Adobe InDesign Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

Very Enjoyable! Lovely tutor and very interesting course
A Hemingway, Wakefield City Council (Adobe Acrobat training Wakefield, West Yorkshire)

Excellent
L Bhardwaj (PhotoShop training Blaby Leicestershire)

A fantastic tutor, made the whole experience very enjoyable.
R Sharma-Slessor, Depuy Spine (a Jonson & Jonson Company) (Adobe Photoshop and Indesign Training Leeds, West Yorkshire)

Very informative course with lots of helpful advice and good practice.
M Hamilton, Canon Slade School (Dreamweaver Training workshop Bolton Lancashire)

Really enjoyable and worthwhile.
L Maycock, Trutex Ltd (QuarkXpress Beginners Training Clitheroe Lancashire)

[The trainer] has been great to work with. I really enjoyed the training.
K. Clarke, HSBC (Indesign training Birmingham, West Midlands)

Very first time I have used Captivate and it was a great start.
A. Kaczmarczyk, Learn Direct (Adobe Captivate training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

I'd just like to say a big thank you to you on behalf of all the attendees. We thoroughly enjoyed the training.
A Hall, Royal Liverpool University Hospital (Adobe Captivate Training Liverpool, Merseyside)

The training was great and the trainer was marvellous.
S. Hart, Chester Grosvenor Hotel (Adobe InDesign training Chester, Cheshire)

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