Adobe Photoshop CS5 Training Courses
Get the most out of Adobe Photoshop by attending our Adobe Photoshop training course. We have a team of Adobe trainers with considerable years of experience in publishing and graphic markets.
All our Adobe Photoshop courses can be run at our London city training centre or Onsite at your office.
We can provide training on all versions of Photoshop, including Photoshop CS5 and CS4.
In addition we also run custom courses tailored to your exact requirement. You select required topics to build your own bespoke Adobe PhotoShop training course.
Whether you need a consultative 1 to 1 Adobe PhotoShop training session using your examples or group training, our trainers can deliver a highly professional service at a price that is reasonable and extremely competitive.
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Adobe Photoshop CS5 Training Course Levels / Training Details / Locations / Schedule
Select a Photoshop CS5 level below to view all the information you need about the course, including the cost of the course, the available training formats and much more.
- Introduction
- Advanced
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Introduction Training Course
This course is designed for new and more experienced users of Photoshop.
Course Duration
This is a 1 day Photoshop CS5 Introduction course. The course starts at 09:30 and runs
until 16:30
Course Locations / Schedule
This course can be run Onsite, at our Photoshop training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.
Day 1
GETTING STARTED
Lesson 1 - GETTING TO KNOW THE WORK AREA
Lesson 2 - BASIC PHOTO CORRECTIONS
Lesson 3 - WORKING WITH SELECTIONS
Lesson 4 - LAYER BASICS
Lesson 5 - CORRECTING AND ENHANCING DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Lesson 6 - MASKS AND CHANNELS
Lesson 7 - TYPOGRAPHIC DESIGN
Day 2
Lesson 8 - VECTOR DRAWING TECHNIQUES
Lesson 9 - ADVANCED LAYERING
Lesson 10 - ADVANCED COMPOSITING
Lesson 11 - PAINTING WITH THE MIXER BRUSH
Lesson 12 - WORKING WITH 3D IMAGES
Lesson 13 - PREPARING FILES FOR THE WEB
Lesson 14 - PRODUCING AND PRINTING CONSISTENT COLOR
Photoshop CS5 Introduction Detailed Training Course Contents
Basics
- Basic Photoshop concepts
- Paint versus Draw
- Ways of acquiring images
- RAM and hard disk requirements
- Overview of Photoshop tools
- Viewing documents
- Background and foreground colours
- How text works in Photoshop
Animation
- Layers and animation
- Using the animation palette
- The Tween command
- Previewing animations
- Exporting animations
Paint tools
- Brushes and brush modes
- How text works in Photoshop
- The advantages of using layering
- Transforming and distorting
- Blurring and sharpening an image
- Special effect filters
- Converting the image type
Making selections
- Rectangular and elliptical marquees
- Using the lasso tool
- How the magic wand works
- Defining a feather edge
- Subtracting and adding
- Essential keyboard commands
- Moving and exporting a selection
- Saving and reloading a selection
- Transforming and editing
- Adding and deleting channels
- Channels, selection and effects
Retouching
- Colour correction techniques
- Adjusting brightness and contrast
- Colorizing greyscale images
- Achieving subtlety when retouching
- Removing unwanted detail
- Correcting a damaged image
- Defining and applying patterns
- Global and selective reversio
Adobe Photoshop CS5 Advanced Course
This course is designed for more experienced users of Photoshop and build on the basics.
Course Duration
This is a 1 day Photoshop Advanced Course. Course starts at 09:30 and runs until 16:30
Course Locations / Schedule
This course can be run Onsite, at our Photoshop training centre or any preferred location in the UK. The course is run on a date that suits you! We do not run public scheduled courses.
Lesson 1 - Combining images
Lesson 2 - Working with paths
Lesson 3 - Filters and special effects
Lesson 4 - Adjustments
Lesson 5 - Buttons and rollovers
Lesson 6 - Slices
Lesson 7 - Image Maps
Photopshop Advanced Training Course Contents
Combining images
- Creating montages
- Saving feathered borders
- The gradient tool and selection
- Working with multiple layers
- Overlaying images
- Ways of combining images
- Creating layer masks
- Creating clipping groups
Working with paths
- Creating and saving paths
- Working with bezier curves
- Adding and deleting points
- Converting paths to selection
- Using clipping paths
- Exporting paths to illustrator
Filters and special effects
- Tips on using filters
- Blurring and sharpening
- The 3-D Transform filter
- Creating multimedia backgrounds
- Creating seamless tiles
- Using the Extract filter
- Using the Liquify filter
Adjustments
- Automatic adjustments
- Using adjustments layers
- Using the Levels command
- Using the Curves command
- Hue Saturation
- Channel Mixer
- Gradient Map
Buttons and rollovers
- Techniques for creating buttons
- specifying different button states
- Optimising and exporting GIFs
- creating rollover effects
- adding animation to rollovers
- using rollover styles
Slices
- Overview of slices
- using the slice tool
- creating layer-based slices
- Modifying slices
- Naming slices
- Image and No Image slices
- Assigning URLs
- optimising and exporting slices
Image maps
- Creating tool-based image maps
- creating layer-based image maps
- Assigning attributes to image maps
Adobe Photoshop Training Course Versions and Levels
Below are all our different versions of Adobe Photoshop Training Courses
Photoshop CS2, CS3 or CS4 or prior versions for Windows or Mac
Please contact us for course contents on any of the above Photoshop course versions
Photoshop Resources
Photoshop Training Los Angeles - provided by Training Connection
Photoshop Training Toronto - provided by Servitor Training Services
Photoshop Training Sydney - provided by City Desktop Training



