Introduction to Adobe Photoshop
Have you always wanted to learn how to touch up and edit your photographs? In this one-day course, you’ll learn how – with no prior experience necessary! By the end of the day, you will be confident in using the essential features of Photoshop to manipulate your photographs, performing image touch ups, filters and more. You can practice on our own images, or bring your own files to use. Be prepared for a fun and creative day!
This course is only available for private bookings, either for groups or as a one-to-one, held online via Zoom. (This course is currently not available for classroom bookings.) Please get in touch for availability.
We train in Adobe Photoshop CC (the latest version) on Windows, but we can train private group courses with Mac or an older version of Photoshop.
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Course Overview
What you will learn
By the end of this introductory Photoshop course, you will be able to:
- Crop and resize images
- Produce stunning effects by using layers and filters
- Create photo montages, Composite images
- Add text to images
- Save images
- Unleash your creative potential!
Course timetable
Session 1
- Getting Started
- Finding your way around
- Using the Selection Tools
Session 2
- Layers
- Correcting images using Adjustment Layers
- Layer Masks
Session 3
- Enhancing: Retouching and Cleaning up your images
Session 4
- Adding effects using Filters
- Adding Text
- Outputting your files
This course is delivered remotely via Zoom. Contact us for availability and pricing.
Information for Mac users
If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.
Group Learning Events
If you have three or more learners, a private group course could be cheaper.
We can tailor the content to your team, and host the training remotely, at your workplace or here at Happy's HQ in Aldgate, Central London.
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The Small Print
For Live Online Interactive Learning sessions (webinars)
The course will run remotely for a full day consisting of four 90-minute live online sessions with independent work in between.
All learners will need to install Zoom on their machines. Full technical requirements are on the Zoom website. Your link will be included in your joining instructions once you have booked your place — if you haven't received this email then please contact our team.
Learners should log into the training session 10 minutes before the start time to ensure that they have downloaded and set up Zoom correctly. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals.
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.
For classroom sessions
All public classroom sessions take place at Happy's HQ in London at Robert Dolan House, 9 Alie Street, London E1 8DE. Please see our Contact Us page for full directions and a PDF map.
The course will run from 10am to 4:45pm (lunch is served 1pm to 1:45pm — we offer a choice of 3 cold bowl dishes). Please be careful to arrive by 9:45am for registration and refreshments. The course will start precisely on time and it may not be possible to go back over material missed by late arrivals. If you arrive over 30 minutes late you may be asked to leave and attend another day.
Please ensure you read our Terms and Conditions before booking for our payment terms and cancellation policy.
Mac Users
If you are a Mac user, please let us know when booking. If the course is held in the classroom at Happy, the training is held on PCs so we recommend that you bring your Macbook with you (we are not able to provide an additional monitor). For online training, please let us know when booking and you can use your Mac as normal. We provide a PDF with shortcuts for Mac users and your trainer will refer to this throughout the training.
The happy Guarantee
We want everyone to go away from our courses feeling as though they have learnt useful, practical skills that they can use straight away when they go back to work.
If you don’t feel that your training has been useful or if you are unhappy in any way, please get in touch with our Customer Services team within 30 days of the course. We will be happy to offer you additional support and training free of charge to help you to gain the skills you need, or if you’d prefer, a full refund.
If you have any questions or concerns, our friendly team are available Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm. You can leave a message on 020 7375 7300 or email us at hello@happy.co.uk.
Your post-course support package
- Included in the price of both online and classroom programmes
- 2 years of free access to our IT Helpline
- Unlimited access - call or email our team as often as you need
- Ask about any content covered on your course
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Did you know...
...we also run courses in Adobe Photoshop Elements, designed for total beginners?
Adobe's Photoshop Elements editor is intended for entry-level photographers, image editors and hobbyists rather than for use in a proper print production environment. Happy's single day Photoshop Elements course covers importing, sorting, rating, tagging and resizing images – all the essential features budding photographers need to learn.
Photoshop Elements Essentials to enable you to use essential features like Quick Fix, Selections and Layers to manipulate images and photographs. Find out more
Introduction to Adobe InDesign to enable you to use the essential features of the versatile desktop publishing and typesetting software. Find out more