Photoshop Intermediate Training Course UK Wide

Intermediate Adobe PhotoShop Training Course

This one-day Adobe PhotoShop intermediate training course extends upon the skills learnt during our Photoshop Beginners course and introduces some of the more powerful capabilities of Adobe's flagship graphic design software.

During our intermediate level PhotoShop course you will be introduced to Adjustment Layers, Layer Masks and Filters, discover how to manipulate colour, brushes, and retouching tools, learn how to work with typography and create your first Quick Masks and Spot Colour Masks and much else.

Email us or call 0844 493 3699 to find out more.

Our intermediate level PhotoShop course is available to modern Creative Cloud users as well as anyone using legacy desktop versions of Creative Suite such as CS5 and CS6, as well as for both Mac or Windows operating systems. Our PhotoShop courses can also be adapted for learning PhotoShop Elements, PhotoShop Express and even PhotoPea.

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

The course can be combined with the Beginners PhotoShop and Advanced PhotoShop training courses to create a two or three-day training programme. Alternatively, you can also blend the training with other Adobe applications, or opt for our five day Creative Cloud Master Class.

Adobe PhotoShop Intermediate Training Course Prerequisites

In order to attend this course you should already have basic PhotoShop skills and knowledge equivalent to our PhotoShop Beginners training course.

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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

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On-site Intermediate PhotoShop Courses Across 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). On rare ocassions travel supplements may apply for PhotoShop training in Central London to cover additional expenses such as congestion charges, but we will endeavour to waive these when possible.

We really ❤ love helping UK organisations to master Adobe PhotoShop. Our only question is: Will it be yours?

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.

Live Virtual Classroom Intermediate Photoshop Courses for 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).

Intermediate Adobe PhotoShop Course FAQs

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 Courses for the Public and Private Sectors

How Many People Should Attend Our Private Adobe PhotoShop Intermediate 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 Intermediate 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 Intermediate 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 for Businesses

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).

Adobe Photoshop Intermediate 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.

Adobe PhotoShop Drawing and Painting Tools
- Adding Paint Effects
- Using Paint Filters
- Working with Brushes (switching between different brushs and brush tips and setting up new brush tips)
- Working with writing and painting tools (the Airbrush, Pencil and Paint Brush)
- Understanding drawing and painting techniques in PhotoShop
- Manipulating colour with Fills and Gradients
Adobe PhotoShop Layer Types & Techniques
- What are PhotoShop Layers?
- Applying and working with Adjustment Layers¹
- Applying and working with Transparency settings
- Using Layer Filters
- Working with Layer Masks²
- Setting Layer Linking and Alignment
- Using Layer Protection
- Grouping and ungrouping your layers
Replacing Colour in Adobe PhotoShop
- Recolouring your images
- Manipulating Colour
- Working with the Dodge Tool³
- Retouching with the Spot Healing Brush
- Working with the Red Eye tool
- Retouching with the Patch Tool
Adobe PhotoShop Typography
- Working with Fonts and Type Faces in PhotoShop
- Understanding, applying and manipulating Text Paths
- Understanding Rasterisation⁴
- Merging / Flattening and Saving Document Layers
Adobe PhotoShop Masks: Using masks and masking techniques for special selections
- What are PhotoShop Masks?
- Creating a Quick Mask⁵
- Adding to & removing from selections
- Masking techniques and principles
- Applying brush adjustments
Adobe PhotoShop Eraser and Paint Tools
- Using the Erasers (working with the Background Eraser and the Magic Eraser)
- Working with colour using the Paint Bucket to add new colours and edit existing colours
Adobe PhotoShop Channels for Masks and Colour
- Creating, saving, applying masks in PhotoShop
- Working with channels including Spot Colour Channels⁶ and channel effects
- Working with Alpha channels for mask storage
Adobe PhotoShop Artistic Effects
- Harnessing PhotoShop Filters
- Using the Filter Gallery
- Manipulating the Liquify Filter
Adobe PhotoShop Practicalities
- Workspace Customisation
- Exporting to other DTP applications i.e. QuarkXpress, InDesign
- Saving for the Web as HTML

Notes: PhotoShop Intermediate Level Terminology in Layman's Terms

1) In PhotoShop, Adjustment Layers are non-destructive layers which enable you to change the colour or tone of a layer without actually altering any of the pixels within the original image used in that layer. This is a very useful method for separating out your work into component parts so that you don't permanently change anything on the layer containing the original image which you might decide to re-edit at a later stage.

2) In PhotoShop, Layer Masks are non-destructive masks which are used to hide parts or areas of an image or layer. They allow you to control the transparency (opacity) of part of a layer to merge or blend multiple images within your layers.

This gives you much better control over your work than say changing the opacity of an entire layer. Just as importantly, when you use Layer Masks your original images remain intact, unlike if you had attempted to achieve the same effect in PhotoShop by using the Erase Tool on a layer, for instance.

Understanding Layer Masks can save you an awful lot of time if you need to change your work later because your PhotoShop document has not lost any of the original photographic information.

3) The PhotoShop Dodge Tool allows you to change the lightness ("exposure") of an image (or area within an image) without altering the hue or saturation of that image. Inversely, the Burn Tool changes the darkness of an image without affecting hue or saturation.

These tools are known as "Destructive Tools" which means that they make permanent changes, so before working with these it is a good idea to save a draft PSD of your project. Both the Dodge Tool and the Burn Tool can be used to great affect for adjusting the apparent depth, clarity and even ambience / mood of an image.

4) Simply put, Rasterisation changes an image from one that is made up of shapes ("vectors") to one that is made up of pixels.

Rasterised images need a higher DPI (dots per square inch) to maintain the quality of their appearance but this is unnoticeable to the naked eye in most scenarios. However, when you enlarge an image the DPI will decrease proportionately and this is when quality of appearance issues can often kick in with rasterised images.

5) Quick Masks in PhotoShop are a temporary type of mask which highlights for you the area inside a selection. This enables you to see quickly whether the area that you have selected is as you expected, thereby giving you the opportunity to change your selection before you commence editing. You can either "Mask Selected Areas" or "Unmask Selected Areas".

6) Spot Colour Channels in PhotoShop enable you to provide / store additional colour information ("plates") for print where colours beyond the CYMK sprectrum of inks are required. Each additional colour requires its own Spot Colour Channel.

Available Adobe 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)

A comprehensive course, no need for improvements.
A Alvey, South Yorkshire Passenger Transport Executive (Advanced Illustrator Training Sheffield, South Yorkshire)

[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)

Greta was an exceptional trainer. I found her manner warm, easy going professional and interested. Her skills with the Adobe Cloud were vast, her knowledge of Cascading Style Sheets, Convert to Paths, and Clipping Handles exceptional. She will always be somebody who shall forever remain in our hearts.
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