Photoshop ACP

Getting started with Photoshop and working with documents

• Understand what Photoshop is and its capabilities
• Navigate your way around the workspace
• The difference between vector and raster images
• Essential preferences that every beginner should know about
• Creating a new document
• Understanding the rulers and guides
• Navigating your document - zooming and panning
• Adding file information into your document
• Saving a document
• Understanding file formats

Digital image basics and making adjustments

• Understanding pixels and resolution
• Understanding colour mode
• Prepare an image for print
• Prepare an image for social wedia and the web
• Saving files for the web
• Understanding adjustment layers
• Editing your first photo - applying colour and tonal adjustments
• How to undo changes

Retouching and correcting images

• Crop and straighten an image
• Get to know the various retouching tools and methods
• Remove objects and distractions from images
• Restore old photographs

Working with selections

• What are selection and why do we need to make them
• Using the various selection tools
• Refining a selection
• Saving and loading selections
• Growing a selection

Colour, brushes and patterns

• Sampling colour from an image
• Creating gradients
• Filling line art with colour
• Brush tool basics
• Creating and saving a brush
• Painting and drawing tools - an overview
• Creating a repeating pattern

Moving and transforming

• Moving images between documents
• Scaling images
• Skew, distort, flip and rotate images

Working with layers

• Understanding layers
• Get to know the layers panel
• Creating a new layer
• Changing the layer stacking order
• Organising layers into groups

Working with layers further

• Apply layer blending modes
• Apply layer styles
• Changing layer opacity
• Creating shape layers
• Building a custom shape layer
• Working with type layers
• Discovering typographical terms
• Exporting layers

Masks and smart objects

• The purpose of a layer mask
• Creating a layer mask
• Combining masks and selections
• The purpose of a smart objects
• Converting to a smart object
• Linked and embedded smart objects
• Working with smart filters

• Engaging content
• A variety of different ways to learn
• Clear guidelines to work through the practice exercises
• Constructive feedback from tutors on your submitted work
• Technical assistance from your tutors

This course will be delivered online via Microsoft Teams.

After the end of the course will take the Adobe Certified Professional (ACP) exam. On passing the ACP exam will earn you the Adobe Certified Associate accreditation. You'll receive a digital badge for social media platforms like LinkedIn and a digital certificate.

The ACP certification validates expertise in Adobe Premiere Pro, enhancing career prospects and boosting professional credibility. It instils confidence, serves as tangible proof of skills, and provides a competitive edge in the job market. Overall, the ACP certification supports career advancement and professional growth in digital creativity.

You will need access to a laptop/desktop computer (Mac/PC) with Adobe Photoshop installed.

If you don't have an Adobe licence, consider the following options from Adobe:

• Free one-week trial from Adobe.
• One-month single application subscription for £32.98* per month, cancel anytime.
• Annual application licence for £262.51* or monthly for £21.98* (early cancellation fees apply).
• Subscribe to all Creative Cloud apps under the same types above but for all the Adobe Creative cloud apps.

 Please visit the Adobe website to find out more. 

*prices are correct as of 10 September 2024

There are no entry requirements for this Adobe Photoshop course and previous experience is not necessary, however, you should be confident in the use of IT generally.