Photoshop beginner course
Price
$123
Version
22
Available
Weekdays / Weeknights / Weekends
Pre-requisites
- Basic computer skills, such as keyboard and mouse
Books
- Course material for Photoshop Beginner provided
About Course
The Photoshop Beginner Course is an instructor-led, hands-on training program designed for learners who want to build practical photo editing and digital design skills using Adobe Photoshop. This beginner-friendly course teaches essential Photoshop tools and techniques for editing, retouching, enhancing, and manipulating images for posters, catalogues, brochures, websites, social media graphics, marketing materials, and creative design projects.
Participants will learn key skills including photo retouching, tonal correction, image editing, colour adjustment, layer management, selection tools, masking, digital painting, and creative image manipulation. Using the latest Photoshop tools and techniques, learners gain the confidence to create polished visual content for both print and digital platforms.
Training Since
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Delivery Method
- Instructor-led Classroom Training at our premises
- Live Virtual Online Training attend in real-time from anywhere
- In-House Training at your premises (4+ participants)
Exams
There is no exam associated with this training course
Skills Gained
- Create your first document
- Understanding file formats, file sizes, colour modes, and image resizing
- Understanding the Photoshop interface
- Learn how to use Photoshop keyboard shortcuts
- Work with layers in Photoshop
- Understand image modes and colour adjustments
- Draw and format standard and custom shapes
- Create custom paths
- Save images for web and print
Audience
- This course is suitable for people interested in capturing images, preparing them for printing, or who have a general interest in learning this software
Course Outline
- Starting from the desktop
- The welcome experience
- Dark versus light interface
- The workspace
- Understanding panels
- Working with the panel dock
- Working with panels and panel groups
- Panel techniques
- Understanding the tools panel
- Working with the tools panel
- Resetting the tools panel
- Understanding the options bar
- Opening an existing file
- Your first document
- Creating a new document
- Customising and saving workspaces
- Understanding the rulers and ruler tool
- Understanding the preferences dialog box
- Saving a document
- Navigating images
- Understanding the document window
- Navigating with the zoom tool
- Navigating with the hand tool
- Navigating with the navigator panel
- Understanding screen modes
- Working with tabbed documents
- Arranging multiple documents
- Working with multiple documents
- Digital image basics
- Understanding file formats
- Understanding image size versus resolution
- Understanding file size
- Understanding colour mode
- Making selections
- Using the marquee tools
- Understanding the lasso tools
- Using the lasso tool
- Using the polygonal lasso tool
- Using the magnetic lasso tool
- Using the quick selection tool
- Using the magic wand tool
- Growing a selection
- Add to or subtract from a selection
- Saving a selection
- Understanding the refine edge dialog box
- Refining hard-edged selections
- Redefining soft-edge selections
- Selecting with colour range
- Moving and copying selections
- Working with layers
- Understanding layers
- Understanding the layers panel
- Creating a new layer
- Working with layers
- Adding images to layers
- Working with layers
- Working with the background layer
- Changing the layer stacking order
- Changing layer opacity
- Transforming layers
- Organising layers into groups
- Resizing images
- Understanding resizing and resampling
- Resizing an image for printing
- Using the print dialog box to resize images
- Resampling an image for email or web
- Guidelines for cropping images
- Understanding the crop tool options bar
- Cropping images
- Cropping images to a preset size
- Applying a non-destructive crop
- Using the crop tool to add a border
- Colour
- Understanding colour
- colour fundamentals
- Understanding the colour panel
- Applying colour with the colour panel
- Selecting colours using the swatches panel
- Selecting colours using the eyedropper
- Selecting colours using the hue cube
- Identifying a colour using the eyedropper
- Using the brush tool to apply colour
- Changing brush styles
- Creating a custom brush
- Using the mixer brush
- Working with text
- Understanding vector-based text
- Adding point text
- Changing text size
- Changing text colour
- Changing the font family
- Installing typekit fonts
- Editing text
- Creating a custom path frame
- Adding text inside a custom path frame
- Filling text with an image
- Creating and applying paragraph styles
- Creating and applying character styles
- Creating a watermark
- Shapes
- Drawing a standard shape
- Drawing a custom shape
- Arranging shapes
- Drawing a straight line
- Selecting and editing shape layers
- Understanding guides
- Understanding smart guides
- Using smart guides to position shapes
- Retouching and repairing
- Understanding the retouch and repair tools
- Removing blemishes
- Reducing wrinkles
- Removing stray hairs
- Whitening teeth
- Intensifying eye colour
- Removing red eye
- Sculpting with liquify
- Removing unwanted objects and wires
- Moving objects using content-aware
- Using the clone stamp tool
- Saving
- Understanding saving
- Saving layered files
- Saving PSD images in another format
- Understanding the save for web dialog box
- Optimising photos for the web – Part 1
- Printing
- Printing single images
- Understanding the print dialog box
- Using the print dialog box
- Understanding printing marks
- Getting help
- Understanding the help menu
- Investigating new features
- Using online help
- Searching for online help
- Accessing online tutorials
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Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
Course Type
- Full-Time (Weekdays)
Days
- Monday to Wednesday
Time
- 9:30 am to 5:00 pm
Duration
- 3 days
Price
- $1999
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
Course Type
- Part-Time (Weeknights)
Days
- Mondays and Tuesdays
Time
- 6:00 pm to 9:00 pm
Duration
- 2 weeks
Price
- $1799
Cities
Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide, Canberra, Perth
Course Type
- Part-Time (Weekends)
Days
- Saturdays only
Time
- 10:00 am to 5:00 pm
Duration
- 2 weeks
Price
- $1799
FAQs – Photoshop Beginner Course
What is the Photoshop Beginner Course about?
The Photoshop Beginner Course is an instructor-led, hands-on training program designed to help learners build essential Adobe Photoshop skills. The course covers photo editing, image manipulation, retouching, tonal correction, colour adjustment, layers, selection tools, masking, and basic digital design techniques.
Who should attend the Photoshop Beginner Course?
This course is suitable for beginners, students, freelancers, marketing professionals, business owners, content creators, photographers, and anyone who wants to learn how to edit images and create professional visuals using Adobe Photoshop.
What can I create after completing this course?
After completing the course, learners can create and edit visuals for posters, catalogues, brochures, social media graphics, website banners, marketing materials, digital artwork, and other creative design projects.
Register for the Course
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