PhotoShop SLR Digital Photography Training Course

SLR Digital Photography with Adobe Photoshop

This one-day digital photography training course is intended for anyone needing to establish a portfolio of professionally produced SLR digital photographs that will impress clients, colleagues and friends alike. It covers the full cycle of photographic production from shooting professional digital photos through to editing them for publication.

Our expert Adobe PhotoShop trainers come to your workplace or opt for live virtual classroom training from anywhere. These commerical and corporate digital photography training courses are available for one-to-one workshops or instructor-led courses with class-sizes of up to ten.

What are the SLR Digital Photography with Adobe PhotoShop Training Course Prerequisites?

In order to attend this course you don't need any prior knowledge of Adobe PhotoShop, but should be familiar with using a keyboard and a mouse. You should have a license for any copy of PhotoShop either Creative Cloud, Creative Suite, Express or Elements. You will also need your own SLR digital camera and it would be useful for us to know the make and model that you are using prior to the course date.

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Digital Photography Training Course Overview

The aim of this photography course is to get you taking your own photographs and then improving them and editing from scratch in Adobe Photoshop*. The first part of the course takes students beyond using auto functions and settings for digital cameras and shows them how to start harnessing the power of manual functions. The second part of the course focuses upon how to improve image quality and add special dramatic effects for use in corporate literature, on the Web or for social media.

* or similar image editing software such as Photoshop Elements etc.

We come to you: Our regional, mobile Adobe PhotoShop trainers cover most locations of mainland UK for on-site visits including the English regions of the West Midlands, East Midlands, Yorkshire and the Humber, the East of England, most of the North West, most of Greater London, parts of the South West of England (Dorset, Wiltshire, Somerset, Bristol area, Gloucestershire) and the western and northerly parts of the South East of England (Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire, Hampshire and Berkshire). Virtual classroom courses are available from anywhere via live video conferencing.

Our Adobe PhotoShop trainers are:

Specialist educators with a wealth of experience and expertise, proven track records and excellent feedback.

Our Closed Adobe PhotoShop Courses are:

Flexible instructor-led courses catering to YOUR specific learning needs and training requirements.

Education is Our Passion:

Over 18,000 students trained across almost every industry, sector and background.

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Commercial and Corporate PhotoShop SLR Photography Courses for the Public and Private Sectors

How Many People Should Attend Our Private Adobe PhotoShop for Digital Photography Courses?

Whilst the number of people who attend our private Adobe PhotoShop for Digital Photography 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 for Digital Photography 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 PhotoShop for Digital Photography 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 SLR PhotoGraphy Training Delivery Method for Closed Courses

Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Adobe PhotoShop training provided 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).

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

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

SLR Digital Photography with PhotoShop Training Course Outline

Part One: SLR Digital Camera Photography Techniques

Moving away from auto-functions and learn to use manual settings including P, S, TV, A and AV
Getting started with SLR features and functions
Working with ISO settings and lighting techniques
How to photograph sharply-focussed imagery with blurred or out-of-focus backgrounds (bokeh effects and depth of perception)
Working with exposures and making adjustments and corrections
Getting started with motion photography for when your subject is on the move

Part Two: Working with Digital Photographs in PhotoShop

Once your photos have been taken, the course then progresses to exploring techniques for editing and enhancing your digital images.

Importing your images into Adobe Photoshop
- Using tools for image cataloguing
- Manipulating image size and image resolution
Working with image faults and improving images in PhotoShop
- Working with Curve Adjustments
- Working with Level Adjustments
- Handling Sharpness
- Using Colour Correction
- Manipulating Brightness & Contrast
- Enhancement techniques for portraits, facial shots and 'close ups'
Manipulating your Photography in PhotoShop
- Getting started with filters
- Using Clipping Masks
Using best practice for printing and publishing for the Web and social media
- Understanding file formats
- Using positioning in DTP software
- Image optimisation for the Web and considerations of Online publishing
- Print quality and considerations

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

☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆ Five Star Review

We really enjoyed our training
and learnt a lot.
PhotoShop Training Manchester, North West

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)