Course Description

This focused half-day course delivers the fundamental Photoshop skills you need in a time-efficient format. Perfect for busy professionals, you'll quickly learn to navigate Photoshop's interface and master essential techniques for enhancing and manipulating images. Through hands-on exercises, you'll gain practical experience with selections, layers, basic retouching, and preparing images for different uses. This streamlined course prioritises the most immediately useful features and techniques, enabling you to start applying your new skills to real-world projects straight away. Whether you need to edit photos for marketing materials, social media, or web content, this concentrated session provides the core skills to get you productive quickly.

Target Student

Ideal for marketing professionals, content creators, and anyone who needs to work with digital images but has limited time for training. This course suits complete beginners with no prior Photoshop experience who need to quickly develop practical image editing capabilities. If you're looking to enhance your digital communication skills, need to prepare images for websites or print materials, or want to add basic photo editing to your professional toolkit, this concentrated half-day session will equip you with the essential foundations to get started immediately.

Performance-Based Objectives:

Upon successful completion of this course, students will be able to:

• Navigate and customise the Photoshop interface confidently
• Create precise selections to edit specific areas of images
• Work effectively with layers to create flexible, editable compositions
• Apply fundamental image adjustments to improve brightness, contrast and colour
• Enhance images using filters and basic retouching techniques
• Add and format text elements to images
• Save and export images in appropriate formats for print, web and digital distribution

Course Outline

Exploring the Adobe Photoshop Environment

• Explore the Photoshop Interface
• Customize the Workspace

Working with Selections

• Create a Selection
• Save a Selection
• Modify a Selection
• Apply Colour to a Selection

Working with Layers

• Create Layers
• Work with Type Layers
• Transform Layers
• Manage Layers
• Using Adjustment layers

Enhancing Images with Paint and Filters

• Paint on an Image
• Working with Swatches
• Apply Filter Effects

Saving Images for Web and Print

• Save Images for Print
• Save Images for the Web
• Save Images as PDF