Explore the creative possibilities of Adobe Photoshop in this beginner-level course. Learn how to edit images, apply effects, and develop practical skills in digital design. Whether you're enhancing photos or creating original artwork, this course introduces the core tools and techniques to help you work confidently and creatively with Photoshop
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This course is the ideal introduction to image manipulation using Photoshop. Essential skills will be introduced and practiced, working towards a greater understanding of the main features of the program.
Participants who will attend the full course will receive a City Lit certificate of attendance electronically for their CV or CPD records. The certificate will show your name, course title and dates of the course you have attended.
What will we cover?
- Introduction to the Photoshop environment, tools and image editing. - Making colour and tonal adjustments. - Working with and manipulating layers. - Saving images and file formats. - Defining, refining and editing selections. - Applying special effects to digital images. - Constructing multi-layered images. - Working with adjustment layers. - Retouching and repairing photographs. - Importing images onto the computer.
What will I achieve? By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Manipulate and edit images using a variety of Photoshop features. - Select and isolate specific areas of an image. - Apply colour adjustments to images. - Combine several images together to produce a photomontage. - Apply special effects using filters and styles.
What level is the course and do I need any particular skills?
No prior knowledge of Photoshop is required. However,students should be confident and competent computer users on a Mac or a Windows PC and be proficient with a mouse and keyboard in either a creative software, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or equivalent and should be able to download, upload, save, open and retrieve files. Some awareness of design for print or any other art/design practice would be useful. You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions,demonstrations,hand-outs and health and safety information,and will be invited to take part in group discussion.You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations.
How will I be taught, and will there be any work outside the class?
You will be taught using a range of techniques including workshops, short lectures, demonstrations, and by completing practical exercises. Computers are provided for each student with all the necessary software installed. Student preparation and homework outside class times is strongly encouraged. Notes will be provided. Should you wish to practice homework you will need to have access to your own Adobe® Creative Cloud licence for Photoshop, which is what will be used to teach this course.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
City Lit offers a variety of progression courses in this subject area. Please click here to view our courses
Disclaimer: Use of Third-Party Software This course might require you to either use your own personal account or create an account for the purposes of this course. City Lit cannot accept any responsibility for any failings of the third party or provide technical support. Whilst using the software you will be responsible for abiding by the providers terms and conditions and maintaining your own work.
George graduated with a degree in Art,Design and Media and soon after became interested in the burgeoning web design industry. He started learning HTML and associated web design skills and later worked for design agencies and as a freelance designer on a variety of projects ranging from large corporations to small businesses. After dipping his toe into the teaching pool, George found he really enjoyed sharing his skills with others and helping them to achieve their goals and has been teaching for Visual Arts at City Lit since 2012. The thing he enjoys most about teaching at City Lit is the wide range of interesting people he meets at work.
Michael Harding was born in Canada, where he studied cinema and photography at Concordia University, Montréal, before moving to the UK. Since then, he has created striking images of architecture, art, people and landscapes for international blue-chip clients for their use in editorial, advertising and corporate applications. Michael’s work has won many industry awards, notably being selected in the Eleventh Association of Photographers Awards and further receiving a Merit Award in the Seventeenth Association of Photographers Awards. His work was selected for a Highly Commended Award in the Deutsche Bauzeitung “Visions in Architecture” European Architectural Photography prize. His work has been exhibited in both the United Kingdom and Canada. Michael has been Chairman, as well as President, of the Association of Photographers (AOP). The AOP is Europe’s most established organisation for professional photographers, working to ensure greater recognition for all professional photographers, as well as working to positively influence legislators in the UK and Europe for the benefit of all photographers.
Please note: We reserve the right to change our tutors from those advertised. This happens rarely, but if it does, we are unable to refund fees due to this. Our tutors may have different teaching styles; however we guarantee a consistent quality of teaching in all our courses.
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However,students should be confident and competent computer users on a Mac or a Windows PC and be proficient with a mouse and keyboard in either a creative software, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or equivalent and should be able to download, upload, save, open and retrieve files. Some awareness of design for print or any other art/design practice would be useful.<br>You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions,demonstrations,hand-outs and health and safety information,and will be invited to take part in group discussion.You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations.You will be taught using a range of techniques including workshops, short lectures, demonstrations, and by completing practical exercises. Computers are provided for each student with all the necessary software installed. Student preparation and homework outside class times is strongly encouraged. Notes will be provided.<br>Should you wish to practice homework you will need to have access to your own Adobe® Creative Cloud licence for Photoshop, which is what will be used to teach this course.<p>No costs. Pen and notepad for note taking.<br><br>When you enrol on a course at the City Lit, you are entitled to student discount on Adobe Creative Cloud. For more information please visit this page<a href="https://www.citylit.ac.uk/student-discount-adobe-creative-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">City Lit student discount on Adobe Creative Cloud | City Lit</a></p><p><strong>City Lit offers a variety of progression courses in this subject area. 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Whether you're enhancing photos or creating original artwork, this course introduces the core tools and techniques to help you work confidently and creatively with Photoshop</p>- Introduction to the Photoshop environment, tools and image editing. <br>- Making colour and tonal adjustments.<br>- Working with and manipulating layers. <br>- Saving images and file formats.<br>- Defining, refining and editing selections.<br>- Applying special effects to digital images.<br>- Constructing multi-layered images.<br>- Working with adjustment layers.<br>- Retouching and repairing photographs. <br>- Importing images onto the computer.- Manipulate and edit images using a variety of Photoshop features. <br>- Select and isolate specific areas of an image.<br>- Apply colour adjustments to images. <br>- Combine several images together to produce a photomontage.<br>- Apply special effects using filters and styles.No prior knowledge of Photoshop is required. However,students should be confident and competent computer users on a Mac or a Windows PC and be proficient with a mouse and keyboard in either a creative software, Microsoft Word, PowerPoint or equivalent and should be able to download, upload, save, open and retrieve files. Some awareness of design for print or any other art/design practice would be useful.<br>You should be able to follow simple written and verbal instructions,demonstrations,hand-outs and health and safety information,and will be invited to take part in group discussion.You should be able to use numbers and be able to do simple measurements and calculations.You will be taught using a range of techniques including workshops, short lectures, demonstrations, and by completing practical exercises. Computers are provided for each student with all the necessary software installed. Student preparation and homework outside class times is strongly encouraged. Notes will be provided.<br>Should you wish to practice homework you will need to have access to your own Adobe® Creative Cloud licence for Photoshop, which is what will be used to teach this course.<p>No costs. Pen and notepad for note taking.<br><br>When you enrol on a course at the City Lit, you are entitled to student discount on Adobe Creative Cloud. For more information please visit this page<a href="https://www.citylit.ac.uk/student-discount-adobe-creative-cloud" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">City Lit student discount on Adobe Creative Cloud | City Lit</a></p><p><strong>City Lit offers a variety of progression courses in this subject area. Please click <a href="https://www.citylit.ac.uk/media/wysiwyg/pdf/2627_Design_Courses.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">here </a>to view our courses</strong></p><p>Disclaimer: Use of Third-Party Software<br>This course might require you to either use your own personal account or create an account for the purposes of this course. City Lit cannot accept any responsibility for any failings of the third party or provide technical support. Whilst using the software you will be responsible for abiding by the providers terms and conditions and maintaining your own work.</p>Business & marketingAdobe Photoshopconfigurable
