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This course can be taken as one continuous block or broken down into smaller segments, namely Photoshop Introduction - 2 day, Photoshop Advanced - 2 day, Photoshop Adobe Certified Exam - 1 day. There is no extra charge to split your course and some people prefer to learn over a longer period.

 

About this course

February - April 2012 - London Covent Garden. All 28 delegates taking this course during the above months achieved Adobe Certified status - 100% pass-rate. Source: Certiport and Certitec

 

Adobe Photoshop Zero to Hero in just 5 days and become an Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) to stand out from the crowd!

This class provides you with the concepts and skills to use Adobe Photoshop effectively. You get hands-on practice working with basic and advanced techniques to get the most out of your experience. You will learn layer basics, photo retouching and image editing. Whether you are a designer, illustrator, photographer, video artist, webmaster or just a beginner, Photoshop offers you many opportunities to make your images look great.

Adobe Certified Associate

You will be take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam at the end of this course on the Friday afternoon. Get recognised for the new skills you've just gained: Get Certified!

Who is this course for?

This class is for all levels of Photoshop users. From complete novices to seasoned users, who may wish to take this class in to rid themselves of bad Photoshop habits. Target customers are advertising agencies, marketing agencies, production houses, and departments that work in such disciplines within larger organisations.

Assumed knowledge

You do not need to have any prior Photoshop knowledge.

What you will learn

• Enhance an image by removing colour cast
• Compensate for flash lighting and red eyes
• Increase/decrease the contrast and brightness of your artwork
• Create simple compositions by blending images together or selecting only parts of an image
• Use colour in Photoshop effectively
• Create type and produce simple adverts
• Output an artwork for web
• Produce advanced face retouching & manipulation techniques
• Maximise the potential of Photoshop Brush engines
• Work with advanced compositions

You will also take the Adobe Certified Associate (ACA) exam in Photoshop on the Friday afternoon. Get recognised for the skills you've just gained: Get Certified!

What else should I know

Should you fail the exam, Certitec will provide one free re-take on the day. Further exam testing is available at our London Covent Garden and Cardiff venues at £99 + VAT per exam.

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Course outline

Introduction

• What does Photoshop do?   

Setting up and getting around the interface

• Lets get familar with the Tools panel
• Run through of the Tools panel 
• Switching tools using the keyboard    
• Dark or Light Interface
• Navigating your image      
• Navigating tabs and windows    
• Panels and workspaces    
• Zooming in and zooming out    
• Entering a custom zoom value    
• Scrolling and panning images    
• Rotating the view  
• Working with tabbed documents    
• Arranging documents     
• Cycling between screen modes    
• Using the Navigator panel 
• Switching tools using the keyboard    
• Customizing the keyboard shortcuts 

Opening and Setting up a document

• Opening from files from Windows and Mac 
• Opening from Photoshop or Bridge
• Opening an image from Bridge
• An overview of Bridge        
• Opening an image from Mini Bridge    
• Closing  images

Digital imaging fundamentals    

• Image size and resolution    
• The Image Size command    
• Resolution standards    
• Upsampling and what happens when you do    
• Changing the print size    
• Downsampling for print  and web   
• The interpolation algorithms    
• Best practices

Crop and Straighten

• The new and improved Crop tool    
• Straightening a crooked image    
• Using Content Aware Fill  
• Using the Perspective Crop tool
• Automatically Cropping and Straightening scanned images 
• The Rule of Thirds   

Extending Images

• Creating a border around your image
• Extending the canvas 
• Using Content Aware Extend
• Using Content Aware Fill
• Using Content Aware Scale

Adjusting Image Luminance 

• Let there be Luminace
• The Auto commands    
• The Brightness/Contrast command  
• The Levels command  
• Working non-destructively with adjustment layers    
• Editing adjustment layers    
• Isolating an adjustment with a layer mask    
• Hello to the histogram    
• Basics of the Shadows/Highlights command

Adjusting Colours 

• Assessing an image
• Identifying a colour cast    
• Correcting a colour cast automatically    
• Changing the colour balance using levels 
• Changing the colour balance using Colour Balance
• Compensating with Photo Filter    
• Adjusting colour intensity with Vibrance    
• The Hue/Saturation command 
• Using the Replace Colour command  

The Undo and the History Panel

• Undo
• Utilising the History Panel
• Creating a Snapshot
• Creating a new Document from a History State

Selections 

• What are selections and why we use them?
• The Marquee tools    
• Getting to know the Lasso tools    
• Magic Wand and Quick Mask tools  
• Adding to and subracting from Selections
• Feathering a selection
• Making it better with Refine Edge 
• Modifying Selections   
• Saving and Loading Selections
• Meet the Channels Panel 

Masking

• Understanding what a mask is and does
• Working with Layer Masks  

Basic Retouching

• Content-Aware Fill
• Content Aware Move    
• Using the Spot Healing Brush    
• Using the Healing Brush 
• Using the Patch Tool
• The ‘good old‘ Clone Stamp tool   
• Meet the Clone Source panel    
• The Dodge and Burn tools    
• Adjusting colour with the Brush tool    
• Smoothing skin textures    
• Brightening teeth    
• Intensifying eyes  
• Tips and Tricks 

The Basics of Layers

• The Background layer    
• Using a layer mask instead of deleting pixels
• Naming, hiding, creating, and deleting layers
• Altering the stacking order of layers    
• Layer transformations  
• Aligning and distributing layers    
• Changing the opacity of layers    
• Grouping layers    
• Merge or rasterise layers   
• Flatten or Save As?
• Best Practises

Basic Brushes

• An overview of brushes and the Brushes panel
• Brush size and hardness   
• Brush shortcuts

Working with Colour

• The Swatches Panel
• The Colour Panel   
• The Colour Picker
• Using the Eyedropper Tool to sample colour
• Creating simple gradients

Simple compositing 

• The various options for copying and pasting
• Dragging and dropping
• Placing an image
• Smart Objects and why when to use them
• The Transformation commands  
• Using and setting up Guides

Saving Your Work  

• Saving layers to PSD    
• Saving images to TIFF    
• File Formats and which to use
• Best practises
• Using the Save For Web utility
• The Colour Modes explained

Combining Multiple Images 

• Auto Align
• Auto Blend
• Creating panoramas with Photomerge

Introduction

• Adjusting preferences
• Creating keyboard shortcuts
• Using the HUD colour picker
• The interface and performance settings

Working smarter with Bridge

• Opening and organising files
• Viewing, choosing and assessing images
• Adding Metadata and Keywords
• Working with Batches and Actions
• Mini Bridge

Retouching

• Working on a actual retouching projects, non-destructively Using the Content-Aware Move tool
• Using Content-Aware Extend
• The Content-Aware Scale command
• Scaling tips
• Working with all the Liquify tools
• Improve body shapeand detail

Adjusting Levels and Curves

• Editing the histogram
• The new automatic Levels adjustment
• Customizing a Levels adjustment
• Understanding the Gamma value
• Making channel-by-channel adjustments
• Simulating a Grey Card
• The Curves adjustment
• Adding and editing points on a curve
• Selecting and darkening highlights
• Automatic Curves function
• Colour adjustment by the numbers
• Tips and tricks

Shadows/Highlights

• Working non-destructively with Shadows/Highlights
• Introducing Shadows/Highlights
• The Radius values explained
• Enhancing the effects of Midtone Contrast
• Masking a group of Smart Filters

Working with Type

• Creating point text
• Choosing fonts and type style tricks
• A run through of the Character and Paragraph panels
• Kerning and tracking characters
• Creating and editing area text
• Selecting and formatting paragraphs
• Using Paragraph Styles
• Using Character Styles
• Setting text inside a custom path
• Creating text along a path
• Masking text into image elements
• Anti-aliasing explained

Working with Shape Layers

• The other vector-based layer
• Drawing a dashed or dotted border
• Drawing and aligning custom shapes
• Combining simple shapes
• Cropping and merging shapes

Layer Effects

• Depth, contour, and texture
• Imparting depth with a layer effect
• Creating shadows
• Bevel and Emboss
• Modifying a layer’s effects
• Saving custom default settings
• Creating a custom contour
• Global Light and rasterizing effects
• Surface contour
• Adding textures

Using Layers

• The Layers panel stripped down
• Adding, scaling, and aligning layers
• Dragging and dropping layers
• Stack, reveal, and rename
• Opacity, history, and blend mode
• Duplicating a selected portion of a layer
• Applying a clipping mask
• Creating a new layer and background
• Layering tips and tricks
• Filtering layers

Creating a Layered Composition

• Selecting objects to create a montage
• Stack, reveal, and rename
• Adding, transforming and aligning images
• Dragging and dropping layers
• Opacity, and blend mode
• Adjusting the colour of layered mages
• Locking Layers
• Painting on Layers
• Working with groups
• Duplicating a selected portion of a layer
• Applying a clipping mask
• Creating a new background
• Layering tips and tricks

Layer Styles

• Applying and creating Layer Styles
• Loading and customizing Layer Styles
• Merging and saving Layer Styles
• Copying Layer Styles

Scale, Rotate, Skew, and Warp

• Meet the transformations
• Transformation and Smart Objects
• Rotating a layer with Free Transform
• Scale, duplicate, repeat, distort, perspective, and skew

Working with Greyscale and Black & White

• Convert to black and white
• Several ways to convert to greyscale
• Mixing a custom black-and-white image
• The Black & White command
• Customizing the Black & White settings
• Black & White or Channel Mixer
• Creating a sepia tone

Selections and Masking

• The Marquee tools
• Getting to know the Lasso tools
• Magic Wand and Quick Mask tools
• Adding to and subracting from Selections
• Feathering a selection
• Refine Edge and Refine Mask
• Working with the Mask panel
• Modifying Selections
• Saving and Loading Selections

Selecting with the Colour Range command

• Selecting Skin Tones
• Selecting a complex image with Colour Range
• Refining a selection in the Quick Mask mode
• Viewing a mask with or without its image
• Painting directly inside an alpha channel
• Correcting fringes around a masked layer
• Turning a layer into a knockout

Sharpening Details

• What is sharpening and how it works?
• Understanding the Smart Sharpen filter
• Understanding the Unsharp Mask filter
• Assessing the best sharpening practises
• Sharpening with High Pass
• Sharpening using Smart Filters

Noise and Detail

• The Noise/Details balancing act
• Introducing the Reduce Noise filter
• Correcting with High Pass
• Brushing away blur and sharpening
• Creating texture by adding noise
• Correcting noise in Camera Raw

Saving for the Web

• Producing a suitable JPEG image
• Producing a suitable GIF image
• Working with Matte options
• Working with colours to reduce file size
• PNG and PNG
• Viewing results in a browser

Printing and Outputting

• The main print options
• Description and printing marks
• Applying bleed
• The Colour Settings
• Other printing options
• Previewing an image at print size
• Creating contact sheets
• Creating a web gallery

Colour Settings

• Overview of Colour management
• Configuring Colour settings
• Soft proofing

What you will learn

The morning of the course covers areas such as project building, accessibility in your content creation and usability.

The format?

You will take your Adobe certified exam in the afternoon.

What else should I know?

Should you fail the exam, Certitec provides one free re-take on the day. Further exam testing is available at our London Covent Garden and Cardiff venues at £99 per exam.

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Offers

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 scheduled training at our London Covent Garden or Cardiff training centres – that's the FlexiDeal^®.

 

If you are self-funding your training then for special scheduled training pricing click here.

 

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

• Acrobat Essentials (1 day)
• Acrobat Introduction (2 day)
  
• Acrobat Forms (1 day)

After Effects

• After Effects Introduction (2 day)
• After Effects Advanced (3 day)
• After Effects Masterclass (5 day)

Digital Publishing Suite (InDesign to Tablet)

• DPS Essentials (1 day) £70 + VAT extra charge
• DPS Full Solution (2 days) £100 + VAT extra charge

Dreamweaver

• Dreamweaver Web Building Introduction (3 day)
• Dreamweaver Web Building Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Dreamweaver ACA Prep + Exam (1 day)

Edge

• Edge Essentials (1 day)

Illustrator

• Illustrator Introduction (1 day)
• Illustrator Introduction (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced (2 day)
• Illustrator Advanced Power User
• Illustrator Masterclass (4 day)

InDesign

• InDesign Introduction (1 day)
• InDesign Introduction (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced (2 day)
• InDesign Advanced PowerUser (2 day)
• InDesign Masterclass (4 day)
• InDesign Interactive (1 day)
• InDesign Print Production (1 day)
• InDesign ePub (1 day)
• InDesign iPad+Android (1 day)
• InDesign ACE (2 day)

MUSE

• MUSE Essentials (1 day)

Photoshop

• Photoshop Introduction (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced (2 day)
• Photoshop Advanced Power User (2 day)
• Photoshop Masterclass (4 days)
• Photoshop Masterclass + Certification (5 day)
• Photoshop ACE (2 day)

Premiere Pro

• Premiere Pro Introduction (3 day)

• Premiere Pro Intermediate + Certification (2 day)
• Premiere Pro Masterclass + Certification (5 day)

How to book

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

FlexiDeal+ (plus)

If you wish to keep onto your FlexiDeal credits for longer than 6 months (no expiry) then it's only £50 + VAT for this option - please mention when booking.

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

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Training dates

London Covent Garden Add dates to your calendar

10 - 14 June 2013

5 - 9 August 2013

30 September - 4 October 2013

25 - 29 November 2013

 

Cardiff Add dates to your calendar

3 - 7 June 2013

12 - 16 August 2013

21 - 25 October 2013

 

Bristol Add dates to your calendar

3 - 7 June 2013

12 - 16 August 2013

21 - 25 October 2013

 

This course can also be taken as split courses

 

Photoshop Introduction - 2 day

 

London Covent Garden

28 - 29 May 2013

10 - 11 June 2013

1 - 2 July 2013

22 - 23 July 2013

5 - 6 August 2013

26 - 27 August 2013

16 - 17 September 2013

30 September - 1 October 2013

21 - 22 October 2013

11 - 12 November 2013

25 - 26 November 2013

 

Cardiff

3 - 4 June 2013

19 - 20 June 2013

12 - 13 August 2013

21 - 22 August 2013

21 - 22 October 2013

6 - 7 November 2013

 

Bristol

3 - 4 June 2013

19 - 20 June 2013

12 - 13 August 2013

21 - 22 August 2013

21 - 22 October 2013

6 - 7 November 2013

 

Manchester

19 - 20 June 2013

11 - 12 September 2013

20 - 21 November 2013

 

Photoshop Advanced - 2 day

 

London Covent Garden

12 - 13 June 2013

7 - 8 August 2013

2 - 3 October 2013

27 - 28 November 2013

 

Cardiff

5 - 6 June 2013

14 - 15 August 2013

23 - 24 October 2013

 

Bristol

5 - 6 June 2013

14 - 15 August 2013

23 - 24 October 2013

 

Photoshop Adobe Certified Exam - 1 day

 

London Covent Garden

14 June 2013

9 August 2013

4 October 2013

29 November 2013

 

Cardiff

7 June 2013

16 August 2013

25 October 2013

 

Bristol

7 June 2013

16 August 2013

25 October 2013

 

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

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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

We provide flexible lunch vouchers which can be redeemed at outlets nearby such as Bella Italia, Burger King, Boots, Co-operative, Eat, Greggs, McDonalds, Nandos, Pizza Express, Pret A Manger, Starbucks, Sainsbury's and Tesco to name but a few.

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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