What: Hands-on practical course. The last evening's session will allow you to work on your projects and portfolio work.

When: 4 week evening course

Time: 6:45pm - 9:30pm

Where: London Software Training, Sheep Lane, London, E8 3FA

What will you learn?

Our 2 day course will give you an intermediary understanding of Photoshop. After the course you’ll have the skills to perform photo editing, image manipulation and more advanced processes such as product mock-ups and photorealistic computer illustration. The course can be tailored to your needs and you’ll work on exciting design projects to develop your portfolio. 

 

Course outline

 

Digital Imaging 

• Image quality and resolution

• Bitmap and vector graphics

• Image and canvas size

• Colour spaces and bit depth

• Design principles

• Files formats and media

 

Interface

• Create a new document

• Controlling the workspace

• Screen layout and window arrangements

• Navigation and zoom shortcuts

• Undo, redo and history

• Guides, grid and ruler

• Use the Clone Stamp tools

• Use the Blur, Sharpen and Smudge tools

• Use the Dodge, Burn and Sponge tools

• Content-Aware tools

 

Layers

• Create, delete and edit layers

• Name, hide, arrange layers

• Merge and group layers

• Change opacity and blending modes

• Cropping Images

• Transform, scale and distort layers

 

Selections

• Creating selections using the selection tools

• Improve and refine selections

• Transform, scale and distort selections

• Saving and loading selections

• Create layer masks and clipping masks

 

Image retouching

• Use the healing brushes, Patch and content-aware tools

• Work with the Color Picker

• Use the Eyedropper tools

• Colour correction and adjustment

• Use Adjustment layers

• Levels and curves

• Hue and saturation

• Shadow and highlights

 

Text

• Create text using the Type tool

• Discover character properties

• Discover paragraph properties

• Working with styles and adding styles to text

• Output graphics for web and print

• Compress image size

• Save and share colours and swatches

• Create and control gradients

• Correct and retouch images

• Painting and working with Brushes

• Colours and gradients

Your course price includes

• Free group course re-take within 18 months
• Expert teaching from practising architects, designers and software pros
• Hands-on, practical lessons - tailoring of syllabus and work on your projects
• Class recordings for revision and development
• LST certificate of completion for your CV and LinkedIn

 

Your tutors are designers, makers and architects, as well as software pros. They will guide you on the best way to apply for design roles or set-up a creative business, whilst teaching you all the key technical skills to make your CV and portfolio stand out from the crowd.