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 to bring 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 you're looking to further your PhotoShop knowledge and skills to become design virtuosos, then this is the right course for you.

Our PhotoShop courses are taught on the Creative Cloud subscription version, 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 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 events and afford more flexibility than off-the-shelf courses with opportunities to tailor content to fit your particular learning needs. Your trainer will discuss your requirements with you prior to the course date.

These Adobe PhotoShop training courses are conducted at your workplace for small groups. You should aim to book at least a month in advance and we can attend anywhere in the UK mainland (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 whether you're in a major city such as London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds or anywhere else.

This offers a 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'd rather that your team learns remotely, these small-group Photoshop courses are also available as live virtual, interactive 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've all become used to Online learning (and live virtual meetings) it is clear that virtual classroom delivery has some advantages over traditional face-to-face learning.

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

Our virtual learning PhotoShop courses cater for classes of up to 10 and your learners benefit from full and immersive interaction with the trainer just as if they were in the classroom with you, with engaging hands-on training via advanced live video conferencing that is enriched by features such as live chat, private chat, and sharing screens and documents.

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 depends on the number of learners you have (up to our ten per course limit), we encourage clients to keep class sizes small. This provides a more personable and effective learning experience and allows the trainer to give individual attention to every student.

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

The teaching methodology for our PhotoShop courses is Instructor-led training (ILT), which means that our courses are engaging, immersive, hands-on and interactive. With this participatory learning method your staff will retain information better, whether they're studying PhotoShop in-person or via live virtual classroom.

And, whilst we're happy to provide lectures, show-and-tells and drop-in surgeries, the ILT approach is by far the best way to bring your PhotoShop know-how to life in a small-class-size setting.

How Long are Our Expert PhotoShop Courses?

Usual teaching hours are 9.30AM to 4.30PM with a lunch hour and short breaks morning and afternoon. This timetable is fairly standard across the industry and gives six hours of hands-on PhotoShop learning, which is an optimal day's training for comfortably absorbing and retaining information and completing practice exercises.

If you want a different start time for your course please let us know.

Courses are run week days, during normal business hours.

Why Choose Our PhotoShop Courses?

• Step-by-Step Courses: Instructor-led Adobe PhotoShop training provided in-person with engaging step-by-step demos, lessons and hands-on exercises.
  
  
• Q&A Courses: Dynamic and interactive Adobe PhotoShop courses with ample time for questions and answers.
  
  
• Flexible Courses: Expert tuition, tailored to your team's knowledge level and learning needs, and covering the Adobe PhotoShop functions, design features and creative techniques that your trainees need most.
  
  
• Small Class Sizes: Private, corporate Adobe PhotoShop training with a limit of 10 participants to ensure personalised attention.
  
  
• Scalable Courses: Can be run as one or more courses, or as a training rollout bringing entire departments and organisations up to the benchmark of PhotoShop knowledge and confidence needed.

What's the difference between Adobe Creative Cloud and Creative Suite?

Adobe Creative Cloud is Adobe's platform of Cloud-based creative design and desktop publishing apps and tools (such as PhotoShop, Indesign, Illustrator and so forth) which is a subscription-based service for both the All Apps "CC for Teams" suite and for individual apps.

Adobe Creative Suite is Adobe's legacy suite of desktop publishing apps. Old timers will recall that it was licensed with a traditional EULA and the software was physically installed from a disk.

These days, our Adobe courses are delivered on Creative Cloud.

Expert Adobe Photoshop Training Course Outline

Actual course content may vary, depending upon your learning requirements.

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're working in Camera RAW in PhotoShop you're 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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