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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 or 1 week full-time study

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.

You will take a look at aspects including improved smart guides, terminology for digital images, and 3D exporting and printing.

Your local course advisor will be able to recommend other courses which will support your graphic design knowledge, and provide further information on this course.

There are 3 sessions within this Photoshop course:

Section 1:

Section A: Intro to Photoshop CC

Section B: The Capture

Section C: Open Files in Photoshop CC

Section D: Navigate Documents

Section E: Creating a New Document

Section F: Color Theory and Management

Section G: Understanding Image Formats

Session 2:

Section A: Resolution and Cropping

Section B: Evaluate Image

Section C: Basic Tonal Adjustments

Section D: Selections

Section E: Basic Retouching

Section F: Content-Aware

Session 3:

Section A: Understand Layers

Section B: Work with Layer Masks

Section C: Work with Type

Section D: Filters

Section E: Shape Tool and Pen Tool

BENEFITS

  • Access to our Live Tutor service to help answer any content or learning queries you may have on a 24/7 basis
  • The flexibility and value of a self-study course designed to enable you to work at your own pace;
  • The opportunity to gain the widely recognised Pitman Training certificate;
  • The opportunity to gain industry recognised certification*

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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.