Adobe Photoshop: a detailed introduction
Time: 11:00 - 17:00
Location: Keeley Street
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- Course Code: VG517
- Dates: 05/10/24 - 19/10/24
- Time: 11:00 - 17:00
- Taught: Sat, Daytime
- Duration: 3 sessions (over 3 weeks)
- Location: Keeley Street
- Tutor: Andrea Marzano
Course Code: VG517
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Duration: 3 sessions (over 3 weeks)
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What is the course about?
In this course, you will learn to use the fundamental tools and techniques in Photoshop. Through creative demonstrations and practical exercises, the course builds on basic skills to quickly evolve to more advanced techniques. Students will learn how to effectively use and integrate a range of tools to adjust and retouch photographs, create collages and colour illustrations, in keeping with current best practice.
This course will enable students to use their learned skills in photography or illustration and to output in web and print, whether you are working as a company employee, freelancer or wish to produce your own personal projects.
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.
- Setting Image size and resolution
- Crop, straighten and perspective crop tools
- Use selection tools to isolate parts of an image
- Working with and manipulating layers
- Using Layers’ Masks
- Main tonal and colour adjustments
- Basic colouring techniques in Photoshop
- Saving images and file formats for print and Web.
What will I achieve?
By the end of this course you should be able to...
- Use Photoshop with confidence
- Set up documents for print and web
- Use a variety of Crop tools and make crop corrections
- Use adjustments to correct or enhance an image
- Select, Isolate, and cut areas of an image
- Work with multiple images and layers to make creative composites
- Remove objects, dust, blemishes and other unwanted elements from a photo
- Colour images digitally
- Save your images in the right format for either print or web.
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 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. Student preparation and homework outside class times is strongly encouraged. Notes will be provided.
Are there any other costs? Is there anything I need to bring?
No costs. To participate on this course you will need to have access to your own licensed Adobe® Creative Cloud software.
Pen and notepad for note taking. You may also find that having a couple of sheets of A4 paper and a ruler to hand would also be useful. Handouts for this course will be provided electronically and are best viewed in Adobe Acrobat Reader (or, if you have full Creative Cloud, Acrobat DC) so may want to have Acrobat on your computer.
As a City Lit student, you may be entitled to student discount on Adobe Creative Cloud applications. Please visit the Adobe website Creative Cloud for education webpage for full details
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.
When I've finished, what course can I do next?
Please click here to view our courses in the Adobe Creative Cloud.
Andrea is a skilled and qualified educator, currently teaching various areas of Design and Marketing, emphasizing real world practice and the latest trends. She studied graphic design at the Royal College of Art and Education at Westminster University. She has over 14 years’ commercial experience working as an art director for high profile advertising agencies on local, pan European and global accounts in Sao Paulo, Rio, London and Amsterdam. She has also freelanced for small agencies and in-house marketing and design studios in London. She now splits her time between teaching, her own practice and her young family.
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.
