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Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

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Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

The Adobe trainer was just brilliant!

Colin Said, I.T. Trainer
Dechert

Included with course:

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

Click to download the Visual Communication Guide for the Photoshop CS5 ACA Exam taken at the end of this course.

Introductory level

The Adobe Photoshop environment
Controlling the workspace
The screen layout
Navigation and zoom shortcuts

Working with selections

What are selections, and why are they useful?
Creating selections using the Marquee tools
The Lasso tools
The Magic Wand and Quick Selection tools
Adding to or deleting from selections
Saving and loading selections
Cropping and rotating an image

Fixing problem images

Using Levels to fix tone range
Using Curves to fix contrast
The Clone Stamp and Heal tools
Shadow and highlight adjustments
Fixing colour with Variations
Hue and saturation controls
Blurring and sharpening filters

Painting and retouching Images

Creating, saving and loading custom colours
The Paintbrush tools
Creating and using new brushes
Digital darkroom techniques
Creating and editing gradients

Working with layers

Layers and selections
The Transform commands
Building layered compositions
Merging layers
Applying transparency
Basic layer blending modes
Adding text layers
Adjustment layers
Special effects
Layer masks

Saving files

Choosing the right colour mode
Adjusting resolution and image size
Cropping or enlarging the canvas
File formats
Optimising images for the web

Merging layers

Applying transparency
Basic layer blending modes
Adding text layers
Adjustment layers
Special effects
Layer masks

Saving files

Choosing the right colour mode
Adjusting resolution and image size
Cropping or enlarging the canvas
File formats
Optimising images for the web

Managing the Photoshop environment

Creating tool presets
Changing default preferences
Customising keyboard shortcuts
Recording actions
Batch processing

Colour management

Creating and using colour settings
ICC profiles explained
Precise image calibration

Advanced image adjustments

Retouching skin tones
Sharpening with LAB mode
Black and white conversion
Photo filters

Accurate image calibration

Creating panoramic images
Using the vanishing point window
New in CS5: Puppet warp
Camera RAW format
HDR images

Advanced painting and retouching

The refine edge window
Painting with the mixer brush
The calculations command
Using smart filters
The liquify window
Lighting effects
3D controls
Content-aware scale, heal and fill

Advanced layer composition

Replace colour and colour range
Working with the pen tool
Advanced masking techniques
Advanced blending mode techniques
Creating type on a path
Using spot colour channels
Using clipping groups
Creating stereoscopic images
Using layer comps
Masking techniques

Advanced outputting features

Creating animated GIF images for web
Slicing images
Printing from Photoshop

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Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

Claim 2 days free training with FlexiDeal^®

Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

The Adobe trainer was just brilliant!

Colin Said, I.T. Trainer
Dechert

Included with course:

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

The FlexiDeal^® - free training

Our courses come with free training at London Covent Garden and Cardiff!

It's very simple: just book a day of private training or one of our 3-day, 4-day or 5-day scheduled courses (or any combination days) and you'll qualify for additional free training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

And as long as you take these additional courses within 6 months of your first qualifying booking, you can even accumulate your FlexiDeal®.

Collecting FlexiDeals^®

Book a 1-day private course – get 1 day free
Book a 3-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
Book a 4-day scheduled course – get 1 day free
Book a 5-day scheduled course – get 2 days free

See below for courses you can claim for free in the FlexiDeal^®

Acrobat

After Effects

Dreamweaver

Flash

Flash Introduction (2 day)

Illustrator

InDesign

Photoshop

Premiere Pro (Cardiff only)

Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

How to book

Just email us confirmation of your valid booking(s) that qualified for the FlexiDeal^®.

Terms and conditions

FlexiDeal^® is applicable only if the full RRP is paid for your course(s). Any discounting invalidates the FlexiDeal^®. If discounting has been applied you can pay back the difference in order to qualify for the offer
The FlexiDeal^® offer lasts for 6 months from the first date of your qualifying bookings
The FlexiDeal^® is not available to funded individuals although we might apply at our descretion depending upon the number of training days booked under the particular scheme

Play Masterclass feature videos

Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

Claim 2 days free training with FlexiDeal^®

Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

The Adobe trainer was just brilliant!

Colin Said, I.T. Trainer
Dechert

Included with course:

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

London Covent Garden Add dates to your calendar

18 - 22 June 2012

30 July - 3 August 2012

10 - 14 September 2012

22 - 26 October 2012

3 - 7 December 2012

Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

21 - 25 May 2012

16 - 20 July 2012

10 - 14 September 2012

5 - 9 November 2012

26 - 30 November 2012

Bristol Add dates to your calendar

21 - 25 May 2012

16 - 20 July 2012

10 - 14 September 2012

5 - 9 November 2012

26 - 30 November 2012

If you don't see any suitable dates here, it might be more economical to deliver a private training course for you

Play Masterclass feature videos

Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

Claim 2 days free training with FlexiDeal^®

Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

The Adobe trainer was just brilliant!

Colin Said, I.T. Trainer
Dechert

Included with course:

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

Our guarantee of training satisfaction

No questions, no quibbles, no problem! Should you ever need to take your course again, just let us know. Find out more…

Requirements

Basic knowledge of Windows or Macintosh.
Understand how to launch an application and save files.
For web courses you will need to have knowledge of web browsers.

General information

Courses start at 10am and finish at 5pm. Please arrive 30 minutes prior to the start of the course on the first day.
We operate a casual dress code.
We supply all computers, software and courseware, pads, pens, lunch and refreshments.
We have both Apple OSX Lion and Windows 7 systems.
Bring along a USB/Flash drive so you can take away your course files.
Following your course, we will email you an Adobe Authorised Course Completion Certificate.
Each course comes with either on-line assets (electronic book/PDF or movies) to download or a high-quality Visual Quickstart 500-page training book. We are migrating most course assets to on-line downloads during 2012.
Access to a secure section of our site that offers useful tips and tricks.

Lunch

London Covent Garden and Cardiff - Flexible lunch vouchers are used and redeemable at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Eat, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

Bristol - Look out for our designer cold buffet lunch.

Support

We supply 6-months rock-solid support via email on the subject matter covered during the course. Find out more…

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Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

Claim 2 days free training with FlexiDeal^®

Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

The Adobe trainer was just brilliant!

Colin Said, I.T. Trainer
Dechert

Included with course:

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

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Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

Claim 2 days free training with FlexiDeal^®

Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card

High-quality training book supplied with this course

The Adobe trainer was just brilliant!

Colin Said, I.T. Trainer
Dechert

Included with course:

Photoshop Masterclass + Adobe Certified - 5 day

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Level: Introduction

Duration: 5 days

Cost: £949 ex VAT

Claim 2 days free training with FlexiDeal^®

Exam included: YES

Mac and Windows

Maximum delegates: 8

This course is Adobe Authorised and delivered by an Adobe Certified Instructor.

Payment for your course can be made via BACS, cheque or credit card