Photoshop for absolute beginners
Master the basics and enhance your images.
Course overview
Designed for newcomers to Photoshop, this course teaches the basics of correcting, retouching, and enhancing images. Beginning with the fundamentals, you will learn how to navigate the interface and become familiar with essential tools.
From there, you’ll explore techniques for applying corrections, adjustments, and manipulations, enabling you to edit your photos to perfection.
Course details
Participants will gain the essential skills and knowledge needed to begin editing their own images using Adobe Photoshop. Designed for beginners, the course helps attendees unlock Photoshop's full potential, even if they are starting from scratch.
How you'll learn
Our online courses are delivered via Microsoft Teams, providing a seamless learning experience. Each session begins with a live broadcast from the tutor to introduce the topic and guide participants through the resources. The courses feature a variety of learning methods, including videos, quizzes, and exercises. Tutors remain available online for real-time support, ensuring an effective and engaging learning journey.
Our blended teaching approach combines live and pre-recorded content, offering the flexibility to learn at your own pace.
What you'll learn
- Identify what Photoshop is and its capabilities
- Navigate your way around the workspace
- Make both global and local adjustments
- Save your work in the right format
- Remove and add things into your images
- Combine images and build documents
- Work with colour, effects and filters
Lisa Wallace - Course Lead
Lisa joined Falmouth University as a Digital Skills Trainer in 2019 and delivers a wide range of digital skills courses to students, staff, and external delegates. Her key areas of expertise include Photoshop, InDesign, Premiere Rush, Adobe Express, and Canva. With a background in graphic design, Lisa brings industry knowledge and valuable design and layout skills to her training sessions.
Find out more- 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
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.com website to find out more.
*prices are of 10/09/24
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