Adobe & Design Private On-Demand

Photoshop Training (PHS.CERT)

3 days
Photoshop

Learn to create, edit, and enhance digital images with Adobe Photoshop while developing practical skills for design, photo editing, and compositing.

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Price per student
$149.85 or 3 vouchers
  • On-Demand 24/7
  • Readings, Video Presentations, Exercises
  • Quizzes to knowledge check
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Course Overview

Learn to create, edit, and enhance digital images with Adobe Photoshop while developing practical skills for design, photo editing, and compositing. This course introduces the Photoshop interface and core tools, then builds your ability to work with layers, type, selections, masks, Smart Objects, paths, brushes, and adjustments through hands-on exercises and design projects.

You will also explore advanced image-editing techniques including retouching, color correction, Camera Raw, compositing, filters, layer styles, and portrait enhancements. The course incorporates Adobe generative AI features such as Generative Fill and Generative Expand, along with tools for sky replacement and Neural Filters, while also covering design-industry fundamentals related to client goals, visual composition, typography, copyright, and project management.

Course Benefits

  • Navigate the Photoshop interface and configure documents, preferences, guides, grids, layers, and artboards.
  • Create and format designs using shapes, type, layers, masks, and Smart Objects.
  • Make precise selections with marquee, lasso, quick selection, color range, Pen, and Select and Mask tools.
  • Combine and isolate image elements using layer masks, clipping masks, vector masks, gradient masks, and compositing techniques.
  • Retouch and reconstruct images using healing tools, the Remove tool, Camera Raw, adjustment layers, and filters.
  • Use Adobe generative AI features including Generative Fill and Generative Expand to modify and extend image content.
  • Apply color correction, transformations, layer styles, blending controls, and Smart Filters to refine images non-destructively.
  • Paint and enhance artwork using brushes, the Mixer Brush, Dodge and Burn tools, patterns, cropping, and patching techniques.
  • Practice advanced editing techniques such as hair selection, green-screen compositing, sky replacement, and portrait retouching.
  • Apply design-industry fundamentals including audience considerations, visual composition, typography, copyright, licensing, and basic project management.

Delivery Methods

Private Class
Delivered for your team at your site or online.
On-Demand
Learn at your own pace with 24/7 access.

Course Outline

  1. Photoshop Crash Course
    1. Photoshop Home Screen
    2. Creating New Documents
    3. The Photoshop Interface
    4. Setting Preferences
    5. Zooming
    6. Panning
    7. Rulers, Guides, and Grids
    8. Creating a Postcard
    9. Shape Basics
    10. Type
    11. Move Tool
    12. Layer Basics
    13. Adding Text to the Postcard
    14. Formatting Type
    15. Masking: A Super-quick Intro
    16. Check Spelling
    17. Finishing Our Postcard
    18. Artboards
  2. Selections And Masks
    1. Libraries
    2. Smart Objects
    3. Marquee Selection Tools
    4. Marquee Practice
    5. Lasso Selection Tools
    6. Feathering and Anti-Aliasing
    7. Quick Selections
    8. Advanced Selections
    9. Auto-Aligning Layers
    10. Masking
    11. Select and Mask
    12. Selecting and Masking
    13. Green Screens
    14. Clipping Masks
    15. Refining Hair Selections
    16. Selecting Hair
    17. Blend If
    18. Adding a Message to the Card
    19. Introduction to Paths
    20. The Pen Tool
    21. Pen Tool Selections
    22. Selecting Color Ranges
    23. Sky Replacement
    24. Vector Masks
    25. Gradient Masks
  3. Reconstructing And Retouching
    1. Healing
    2. Filters and Smart Objects
    3. Filter Gallery
    4. Neural Filters
    5. Healing and Filters
    6. Camera Raw
    7. Retouching Portraits
    8. More on Camera Raw
    9. Adjustment Layers and Color Correction
    10. Adjustment Layers
    11. Transformations and Filters
    12. Practicing
  4. More Layers And Selections
    1. Layer Styles
    2. Creating a Fancy Drop Shadow
    3. Layers and the Layers Panel
    4. The Frame Tool and Selection Modifications
  5. Brushes And Painting
    1. Color Picker
    2. Brushes
    3. Mixer Brush Tool
    4. Content-Aware Cropping
    5. Pattern Fills
    6. Layer Patch Tool
    7. Cropping, Patching, and Pattern Filling
    8. Dodge and Burn
    9. Dodge and Burn and Mixer Brush
    10. Learning to Learn: More Brushes
  6. Working in the Design Industry
    1. Client Goals and Audience
    2. Communicating about Design Plans
    3. Basic Project Management Concepts for Designers
    4. Copyright, Permissions, and Licensing
    5. Digital Image Terminology
    6. Typography
    7. Visual Composition

Class Materials

Each student receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all class examples.

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