Photoshop Training In Ireland

Are you looking for Photoshop Training in your organisation? I can help you learn Photoshop in an efficient and fun way. I provide onsite training and attendees will need to have a laptop with Adobe Photoshop installed.

I have been teaching Adobe Photoshop for over 15 years and am a certified Adobe Education Trainer. I also USE Photoshop everyday for my own graphic design and illustration work. I offer the following one-day Photoshop course for absolute beginners. The course is practical, hands-on and good fun.

Photoshop Essentials One Day Course

Cost: 300 Euros Per Person

Here is what you would learn in a typical one-day Photoshop training session. (This can be adapted based on your needs):

  

1. Photoshop Workspace

1. Opening Files

2. Documents and Navigation

• A tour of the Photoshop interface
• Working with multiple documents
• Panning and zooming documents
• Viewing with different screen modes

3. Customise your workspace

• Working with panels and saving your workspace

2. A Few Technical Bits You Need To Know About Digital Images (But not too much!)

• Understanding file formats 
• Choosing colour modes and bit depth 
• Understanding colour space 
• Understanding what document size you need 
• Changing document size 
• Multiple undo and the History panel 
• Saving documents 

3. Cropping, Straightening and Adjusting Canvas Size

• Using the Crop tool 
• Straightening a crooked image 
• Cropping to the perfect size 
• Increasing canvas size 
• Auto-fill with Content-Aware Crop 

4. Making Selections

• Using the Marquee and Lasso tools 
• Combining selections 
• Quick select and layer mask touch-ups 
• Selecting soft edge objects using Select and Mask 
• Using Select and Mask to refine a hard edge selection 
• Making selections based on colour and focus 

5. Layers

• Exploring layer basics 
• Loading, selecting, transforming, and aligning 
• Working with layer groups 
• Merging and flattening layers 

6. Colour and Brush Essentials

• Colour basics 
• Work with brushes 

7. Working with Layer Masks

• Layer mask essentials 
• Using gradients to blend images 

8. Repairing & Retouching

• Removing distracting elements with the Healing Brush and Patch tools 
• The magic of Content-Aware Fill, Move, and Scale 
• Using the Clone Stamp tool 
• Removing larger elements from an image 

8. Blend Mode Essentials

• Getting to know the blend modes 

9. Transformations

• Scaling, skewing, and rotating layers with Free Transform 
• Correcting perspective 

10. Adjustment Layer Essentials

• Introducing adjustment layers
• Understanding the Histogram
• Refining dynamic range using Levels
• Adjusting local colour and contrast using Curves
• Changing vibrance, hue, and saturation
• Custom black and white conversions
• Limiting adjustments with clipping masks

11. Adding Text To Your Images

• A short introduction to the Type tool