The course will give you a good skills base in all aspects of Photoshop from document setup to photographic clean ups and cut outs. Building you ground knowledge of all the tools to enhance your marketing material and an insight into the world of professional graphic design.

You will gain skills up to a level of comfort within the package and will produce a series of design tasks and piece of selected marketing material, plus of course the skills you need to know to go off and design your own marketing.

Delegates can also gain professional qualification credits towards a University Certificate of Professional Development or degree from De Montfort University.

Overview

The course covers the following areas :

• An introduction to the Photoshop workspace
  • Menus
  • Palettes
  • Flexible setup
• A breakdown of the tools on offer
  • Selection tools
  • Drawing tools
  • Vector tools
  • Colour palette
  • Workspace views
• Drawing tools
  • Brushes
  • Line tool
  • Pencil tool
  • Pen tool
• Image correction and manipulation tools
  • Clone stamp
  • Heal tool
  • Dodge and Burn
  • Sponge tool
• The power of layers
  • New layers
  • Duplicating layers
  • Ordering and naming
• Resizing and rotating
  • Free transform
  • Rotate
  • Scale
  • Distort
• Rulers and guides
  • Using them effectively
  • Measurements
  • Personalise settings
• Text, fonts and typography
  • Font styles
  • Paragraphs
  • Formatting
  • Structure

Overview cont.

• Filters to enhance a design
  • Drop shadow
  • Bevel & emboss
  • Glow
  • Gradient
  • Stroke
• Selection tools
  • Marquee tool
  • Lasso tools
  • Combination selections
  • Quick mask
• Cut out or clean up selected images
  • Image rescue
• Vectors a quick guide
  • Understanding the pen tool
• Design principles
  • Basic design rules
  • Simple effective designing
  • Colour theory
• Production of marketing material

Who is it aimed at?

This course is aimed at :

• Individuals and business staff who would like to develop a knowledge of graphic design and a competent use of Photoshop to enhance any future marketing projects
• Sole traders looking to produce all marketing and design work for their own business to be truly independent

Entry requirements

Although there are no formal qualifications required for attending this course, delegates should have an understanding of basics of either Windows or Mac desktop environments and have a basic ability to manage files and documents. If you are unsure about these requirements, please contact us via the contact us page.

Delivery method

The course is a 3 day fully trainer led course. To help reduce the effect on your business of losing a member of staff for 3 days, this course runs 1 day a week over 3 weeks. Delegates then have the time needed to absorb and implement the information gained during these intensive training days.