Is This for You?

Design and marketing enthusiasts who are keen to develop a specialist skillset in photo and image editing, and creating marketing materials including flyers, web design elements including graphic design and logo creation. This course is also suitable for budding photography enthusiasts.

Award and Associated Qualifications

Awarded 18 CPD points upon successful completion

Start Date
Flexible
Study Type
In centre, online, or a combination
Training Type
Course
Duration
18 hours

About This Course

Having the ability to doctor images and edit photographs is a highly sought after skill across the marketing and fashion world, but it doesn’t stop there! Editing images is also a skill used by photographers, and across the corporate market place, meaning this is a talent always in demand.

By studying Photoshop CC, you will gain an understanding of hundreds of new updates and features, not just learning how to edit images and photos, but also create marketing materials and logos.

There are five Domains in this Photoshop course:

Domain 1: Purpose, Audience and Communications, Copyright, Permissions and Licensing. Digital Image Term and Basic Design Principles.&

Domain 2: Documentation and Workspaces, Non-Printing Tools and Importing Assets: Colours, Swatches, Gradients, Brushes, Styles and Patterns.

Domain 3: Layers, Layer Visibility: Destructive and Non-Destructive Editing.

Domain 4: Core Tools, Add and Manipulate Text, Manage Selections, Reconstruction Techniques, Appearance Modification.

Domain 5: Prepare Images for Export and Save Digital Images.

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Aims and Objectives

This course is designed to help you gain the practical skills required to create your own marketing and graphic material, with the option to also take the Adobe Certificate in Visual Design*.

*Certification to be arranged separately.

Pre-Requisites

It would be ideal, but not essential, if you already held a basic knowledge of marketing and design elements – speak to your Course Advisor to find out more.

Finance Options

Wherever possible our training is tailored to your needs. The cost of our training programmes depend on the course(s) you choose and varies according to duration and breadth. Rest assured we have a number of payment options available to ensure the cost of training is affordable and can be worked alongside your other financial commitments. Common ways people fund their training include: –

Self-Funded:

  • Flexible payment plans to help you spread the cost* available at many of our centres;
  • You could opt to pay upfront.

Company Funded:

Requesting funding from your employers needn’t be a daunting task. Many employers support and encourage their employees with their professional development and consider it a worthwhile investment to fund any training required.

What we can help with:

  • Providing a comprehensive training programme outlining learning outcomes
  • Tailored personnel letters
  • Communication with finance departments to arrange payment options (upfront or payment plan*).

Funding & Grants:
There may be the opportunity to apply for funded grants that can help towards the cost of training. These include the Skills Development Scotland ITAs and the ReAct programme in Wales. All schemes will have different terms and conditions that will need to be met in order to qualify for a grant and these are managed by each individual centre.

We’d recommend you speak to a Course Advisor in your local centre to find out whether they are registered to offer any such schemes and discuss your requirements further.

* Terms and Conditions apply. Speak to a Course Advisor for full information on the options available to you.

Career Path

This is the latest version of Photoshop and would be useful for anyone looking for a career in Graphic Design, Artwork Design, Marketing or even Web Design.

What’s the Difference?

We offer a range of training packages in a range of subject areas and can offer blended learning opportunities to best meet your needs.

Our courses are practical in nature and focus on a single subject and can last anywhere from a few hours to a few days.

Diplomas are designed to give you a complete skillset mapped to a specific career path and contain a number of core and elective courses.