Adobe Photoshop: New User

About SquareOne
SquareOne is among the UK's leading providers of IT training to businesses of all shapes and sizes. Our company pledge is to deliver inspiring, motivational and cost-effective training which brings about tangible improvements in productivity. Through our training courses, individuals are able to gain lifelong skills and realize their full potential while clients achieve their corporate goals.

Who should attend?
This course is suitable for anyone who needs to manipulate and edit digital images for print and web use, such as photographers, and graphic designers.

Prerequisites
Delegates should have a good level of PC and windows skills, but do not need prior experience with Adobe Photoshop.

Course Objectives
Adobe Photoshop is part of the Creative Suite collection

Photoshop allows designers and photographers to produce variety of artwork by manipulating and composing digital and drawn images, using powerful layering and masking techniques and a wealth of special effect filters. During this Photoshop training course you will learn how to produce professional quality images for print and web. You will cover fundamental topics such as size, resolution, contrast and colour adjustments, retouching, special effects and correct output.

Training Locations
This training is delivered as a closed course at your company's premises. We can bring our mobile IT classroom to any UK or European location, so no matter where you are based, SquareOne can come to you. Training can be delivered on PCs or Macs. Please specify at the time of booking.

Where We Have Trained
SquareOne have delivered training solutions throughout the UK in locations such as London, Liverpool, Wirral, Merseyside, Blackpool, Manchester, Sussex, Surrey, Hampshire, Edinburgh and Belfast. We have also trained at international locations such as France, Germany, Switzerland, Scandinavia and USA.

Training has been delivered to a diverse range of industries including oil and gas, agriculture, automobile manufacture, food production, the arts and finance.

Course Details
Duration: 2 Days Classroom Training or Online

Timings: 09:30 - 16:30

Photoshop Overview
About Photoshop
Working with bitmap and vector images
Various design workflow's
The Interface
Using the menu bar
Setting preferences
Customising palettes
Opening and importing images/graphics
Creating new documents
Navigation and magnification
Using the Navigator window
Basic Image Manipulation
Cropping
Resizing the image
Working with image resolution
Setting colour modes
Making greyscale images
Saving formats
Image Enhancement
Basic Levels
Basic Curves
Using Hue and Saturation
Sepia effects
Sharpening images
Correcting Mistakes
Undo shortcuts
Using the History palette
Making a snapshot
Working with Selections
Using the range of selection tools
Working with selection options
Saving selections to channels
Editing selections
Feathering images with selections
Changing Image Content
Cloning in an image
Using the retouching tools
Working with the paint tools
Using colour options in Photoshop
Copying parts of other images
Working with Layers
About Photoshop layers
Creating/deleting layers
Automatic layer creation
Adding text layers
Hiding/locking layers
Setting layer attributes
Working with layer sets
Transforming layers
Blending layers
Using layer masks
Creating Adjustment layers
Working with layer effects
Using the Flatten Image command
Considerations for Web and Print
PSD documents for future editing
Print based file formats
Image compression for web