Diploma in a Beginner's Guide to Photoshop

This course lays out the fundamentals of Adobe Photoshop before exploring its more complex features. We aim to keep things simple and take you from novice to expert step by step. Even if you're just getting started, you'll be amazed at how simple but powerful Photoshop can be, which is why it remains one of the world’s most popular programs with a wide range of uses. Whether you're trying to jumpstart your creative career or add a new skill to your toolkit, now is the time to sign up for this course. We begin with an introduction to the program and move through Photoshop’s interface until you can employ its sophisticated transforming, wrapping and image-editing features.

The course then explores ways to help you work more efficiently in Photoshop, starting with keyboard shortcuts that you can customize along with the program’s interface. We then examine the important concept of ‘layers’ in Photoshop before moving on to more powerful tools and features: warping, compositing, retouching image adjustments and colour-correction filters, adding text and vector shapes, camera, raw footage and even video in 3D. We demonstrate the use of such features to make you an expert as you tackle more advanced projects. Ideally, you should have Photoshop on your computer while taking this course so you can follow all the examples and mini-projects we provide while you learn.

We guide you through Photoshop's popular techniques for retouching portrait photography via frequency separation as we tackle various creative projects to demonstrate how to use advanced features like masking, painting, blending and compositing multiple images and much more. This course covers all the features you need to master to become a capable graphic designer. We then investigate Photoshop documents and explain how to create and navigate them while providing tips and tricks to allow you to open them faster. We conclude the course with an overview of digital images, which you require before diving into advanced image editing. Photoshop is used industry-wide because of its versatility and power to shape the visual world, so sign up for this diploma course to enrich your resume and skills.