PhotoShop Training Courses
Master Photoshop on our friendly, expert-led courses live online, in London & UK wide.
We offer courses for all skill levels, from beginner to advanced.
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Our Photoshop Courses
Photoshop Introduction & Intermediate
This course takes you from complete beginner to confident Photoshop user!
- Intro to Photoshop & CC
- Editing & retouching
- Annotating using text effects
- Selecting parts of images
- Optimising for print and web
This course takes you from complete beginner to confident Photoshop user!
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Intro to Photoshop & CC
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Editing & retouching
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Annotating using text effects
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Selecting parts of images
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Optimising for print and web
Click on the sections below to see the full syllabus that is covered during this course.
- Starting Photoshop
- The Photoshop Workspace
- Working With The Palette Dock
- Working With Palettes And Palette Groups
- Palette Techniques
- About The Toolbox
- Working With The Options Bar
- Opening An Existing Document
- Creating A New Image
- Brush Tool Essentials
- Selecting Colours Using The Swatches Palette
- Undoing Actions
- Exiting Photoshop
- Understanding file formats
- Understanding file size
- Understanding colour mode
- Understanding resizing and resampling
- Resizing an image for printing
- Resampling an image
- Cropping images
- Cropping to a target size
- Using the Crop Tool to add a border
- Understanding Tonality and Histogram Palette
- Using levels to Improve Contrast
- Adjusting Levels Automatically
- Using Curves to Improve brightness
- Adjusting shadows and highlights
- Repairing photos that needed Fill Flash
- Repairing Photos with too much flash
- Using Auto Colour
- Adjusting Colour Balance
- Using Hue and Saturation
- Using The Clone Stamp Tool
- Using the Healing Brush Tool
- Using the Spot Healing Brush Tool
- Using Content-Aware
- Repairing Large Areas
- Removing Red Eye
- Sharpening An Image
- Understanding layers and the layers palette
- Creating new layers
- Working with Layers
- Working with the background layer
- Changing layer stacking order
- Changing layer opacity
- Creating a simple composite
- Flipping And Rotating Images
- Straightening Photos
- Straightening Scanned Images
- Correcting Perspective Problems
- Skewing And Rotating Images
- Warping Images
- Working With Selections
- Using The Lasso And Polygonal Lasso Tools
- Using The Magic Wand Tool
- Using The Magnetic Lasso Tool
- Using the Object Selection Tool
- Modifying selections using Quick Mask Mode
- Extracting selections from the background
- Cleaning up extractions
- Creating Layer Masks
- Using Clipping Masks
- Applying a soft focus effect
- Applying a blurred Lighting Vignette
- Applying a focus Vignette effect
- Using a Gradient Mask
- Converting a colour image to greyscale
- Using adjustment layers
- Understanding blending modes
- Dodging and burning with overlay blend mode
- Adding Point Type
- Changing Text Colour
- Changing Text Size
- Editing Text
- Adding Paragraph Type
- Warping Text
- Adding Special Text Effects With Layer Styles
- Drawing Paths For Text
- Creating Text On A Path
- Printing Single Images
- Using the Print Dialog Box
- Saving Layered Files
- Saving Images in a New Format
- Understanding the Save For Web Dialog Box
- Creating a pdf presentation
One of our regular trainers for this course is Paul. He has been training people to use layout and graphic design packages for over 30 years.
He started his career working as a graphic designer. Then in 1989 he was asked to help train people use Aldus Pagemaker and CorelDraw and the rest is history.
He has focused on training Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator for the last 15 years.
Photoshop Advanced
Develop your existing Photoshop skills & learn to streamline your work.
- Channels & clipping paths
- Levels, curves & masking
- Advanced layer techniques
- Creating images from scratch
- Automate tasks using actions
Develop your existing Photoshop skills & learn to streamline your work.
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Channels & clipping paths
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Levels, curves & masking
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Advanced layer techniques
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Creating images from scratch
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Automate tasks using actions
Click on the sections below to see the full course syllabus covered during this course.
- Neural filters for portraiture
- Frequency separations
- Enhancing and smoothing skin
- Light and tone balancing
- Noise reduction
- Liquify and portraits
- Colour and printing
- Device and document profiles
- Working spaces
- Soft-proofing
- Understanding paths
- Creating a work path
- Working with custom shapes
- Creating vector masks
- Understanding Actions
- Using preset Actions
- Loading and saving Actions
- Recording Actions
- Actions in batch mode
- Cropping, balancing
- Using colour balance
- Advanced curves
- Applying colour filters
- Colour replacement tool
He started his career working as a graphic designer. Then in 1989 he was asked to help train people use Aldus Pagemaker and CorelDraw and the rest is history.
He has focused on training Adobe InDesign, Photoshop, Lightroom and Illustrator for the last 15 years.
Photoshop Combined (SAVE £55)
The fastest way to go from complete beginners to advanced Photoshop users.
Save £55 when you book our Advanced and Introduction & Intermediate course at the same time.
The fastest way to go from complete beginners to advanced Photoshop users.
Save £55 when you book our Advanced and Introduction & Intermediate course at the same time.
Photoshop Advanced Retouching
This advanced course is for people with a good working knowledge of Photoshop.
- White balance & lighting
- Enhancing colours
- Cleaning up hair, skin & eyes
- Smoothing wrinkles
- Removing colour casts
This advanced course is for people with a good working knowledge of Photoshop.
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White balance & lighting
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Enhancing colours
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Cleaning up hair, skin & eyes
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Smoothing wrinkles
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Removing colour casts
- Analysing your images
- Sketching your ideas
- Setting up your Brushes
- Working with Camera Raw
- Using the Shadows/Highlights filter
- Adjusting skin colours with Levels and Curves
- Using contrast to add colour
- Using Adjustment Layers
- Enhancing colours
- Boosting your colours
- Adding colour via contrast
- Dust and Scratches
- Using the Healing Brush
- Using the Spot Healing Brush
- The Patch Tool
- Clone Stamp
- Filters
- The Brush and Clone Stamp tools
- Using Blends
- Reshaping and styling hair
- Working with the Liquify, Puppet and Warp features
- Adding depth and highlights
- Patching and removing gaps in hair
- Dealing with receding hairlines and thickening hair
- Changing hair colour
- Using Puppet Warp and Liquify
- Reducing wrinkles
- Softening and smoothing techniques for skin
- Creating a Frequency separation
- Using the Dodge and Burn techniques
- Blend Modes, brushes and the clone stamp tools
- Brightening
- Changing eye colours
- Sharpness techniques
- Controlling colours
- Whitening teeth in a natural way
- Applying the effects
- Reshaping using Liquify
- Colouring
- Reshaping
- Reshaping
- Cleaning-up
- Creating a brush
- Smoothing wrinkles
- Retouching clothing
- Adding a pattern to clothing
- Colour Correcting product shots
- Cleaning up
- Removing Colour casts
This is an advanced Photoshop course. It assumes that you are already an experienced Photoshop user.
It is recommended that you have either attended our advanced Adobe Photoshop training course or have developed a good working knowledge of the topics covered in that course before you attend.
Photoshop for Web Designers
This course focuses on using Photoshop for image manipulation and retouching.
- Navigating Photoshop
- Basic image correction
- Creating & blending layers
- Make logos with smart objects
- Using & editing smart filters
This course focuses on using Photoshop for image manipulation and retouching.
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Navigating Photoshop
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Basic image correction
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Creating & blending layers
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Make logos with smart objects
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Using & editing smart filters
- Installing Adobe Photoshop
- Adjusting preferences
- Applying colour settings
- Keyboard shortcuts
- Getting to know the Work area
- The Photoshop interface
- Working with bitmapped or digitized images
- Importing images in Photoshop
- Selecting and using a tool from the Tools panel
- Selecting and using a hidden tool
- Setting tool properties
- Resolution and Image Size
- Cropping and Straightening
- Adjusting colour and tone
- Using the spot healing brush tool
- Using content-aware fill
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Applying content-aware patch
- Sharpening an image
- Geometric selections
- Freehand selections
- Edge-based selections
- Colour-based selections
- Moving a selected area
- Manipulating selections
- The magic wand tool
- Softening the edges of a selection
- Selecting using the Lasso tool
- Selecting using the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Using the layers panel
- About the background layer
- Renaming and copying a layer
- Viewing options for layers
- Rearranging layers
- Duplicating a layer
- Applying a gradient to layer
- Applying a layer style
- Flattening and saving files
- Using smart objects to create a logo
- Applying a gradient to your logo
- Exploring typographic design methods
- Adding point type
- Applying shadow
- Creating type on a path
- Warping point type
- Working with type styles
- Creating paragraph styles
- Creating character styles
- Adding vertical text
- Accessing/Using font files in Photoshop for web project
- Importing fonts into Photoshop
- Editing a smart filter
- Recording and playing an action
- Up-scaling a low-resolution image
- Matching colour schemes across images
- Stitching a panorama
- Using the Adaptive Wide Angle filter
- Adding a photo filter
- Saving files for web
- Creating web mock-ups with slices
- Exporting HTML and images
This course is designed for complete beginners. You do not need any prior experience with Photoshop to attend.
Provided that you have a basic understanding of working with multiple windows and file storage on a computer, you’ll be absolutely fine.
Having completed this introductory course, many people come back to complete our more advanced Photoshop training courses.
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Photoshop Layers
This course develops a deep understanding of Photoshop layers.
- Emphasising certain areas
- Combining images using layers
- Creating colour gradients
- Blurring using Gaussian blur
- Clipping to combine layers
This course develops a deep understanding of Photoshop layers.
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Emphasising certain areas
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Combining images using layers
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Creating colour gradients
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Blurring using Gaussian blur
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Clipping to combine layers
• What are Layers?
• Bringing Images together with Layers
• Basic Layer Control with the Layer Palette
• Adding Text Layers
• Applying Layer Effects
• Understanding Layer Masks
• Creating a New Layer
• Filling Layers with Colour & Gradients
• Starting with a Blank Canvas
• Blurring Layers with Gaussian Blur
• Understanding Adjustment Layers
• Combining Layers by Clipping
• Saving and Exporting Images
This course is designed for people with a basic understanding of Photoshop.
This can be either from attending a formal training course or through being self-taught.
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Introduction Firefly Course
Become a confident Firefly user on this practical introduction course. Learn how to prompt effectively, refine your outputs and produce consistent results.
- Writing effective prompts for images
- Generating and editing images with AI
- Creating vectors, templates, and text effects
- Using Generative Fill, Remove, and Expand
- Producing video, audio, and creative assets
Become a confident Firefly user on this practical introduction course. Learn how to prompt effectively, refine your outputs and produce consistent results.
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Writing effective prompts for images
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Generating and editing images with AI
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Creating vectors, templates, and text effects
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Using Generative Fill, Remove, and Expand
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Producing video, audio, and creative assets
Click below to see the detailed course syllabus.
First, you’ll build a strong foundation by understanding how Firefly works and how to navigate the interface confidently.
- Understanding Firefly and it’s role in the Adobe ecosystem.
- Generative credits, usage limits, and commercially safe AI content
- Navigating the Firefly interface and generation workspace
- Managing outputs, downloads, and generation history
Then we’ll dive straight into how to create high-quality visual content using prompts, references, and Firefly’s core creative tools.
- Writing effective prompts and generating images from text
- Using reference images, styles, and variations
- Creating vectors, templates, and stylised text effects
- Generating video, audio, and other creative assets
Then we’ll break down how to use Firefly’s editing tools to refine and transform visuals for professional use.
- Adding, removing, and expanding content with Generative Fill
- Enhancing and refining images for realistic results
- Building scene-based visuals and compositions
- Applying best-practice prompting techniques for consistent outputs
Finally, we’ll close out with how Firefly fits into professional workflows across Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign.
- Using Firefly with Photoshop for generative editing
- Creating vectors and assets in Illustrator
- Generating layout-aware visuals in InDesign
- Understanding safe commercial use and best practice workflows
This course was designed for people with no experience using AI tools.
However it’s recommended that you have a basic understanding of digital imagery and creative workflows:
- Navigating web-based tools
- Working with images and files
- Performing basic editing tasks
- Having familiarity with Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign
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What Do Previous Delegates Say





Joanne Magistrado-Harris, Global Brands Group Senior Footwear Designer
I loved all of it! Well taught and at an easy to understand pace.
Zachariah Brown, Electronic Arts Ltd Commercial & Retail Marketing Intern
Very well explained. Went through the material at a good speed and allowed time to try the activities for ourselves.
Lexy Walker, AllMakes4 Marketing Executive
The way the course was taught, I learned a lot in a short space of time. I particularly enjoyed the creative side (day 2). Being taught the basics first also helped a lot.
Sarah Hunt, Inviqa UK Ltd Content Manager
Small class size, ability and time to ask questions, interactive exercises, good pacing, great instructor.
Ellinor Siljestrom, Global Brands Group Assistant Product Manager
Brilliant course as ever. Paul has a very good way of explaining so, everyone understands.
Victoria Martin, Mirion Technologies Limited Divisional Marketing Coordinator
All of it - Ill probably use most things taught, at some point.
Greg Thomas, VGL Studio Artworker
Very informative, learnt a lot of new ways to work. Efficient ways of working etc.
David Withington, VGL Artworker
Everything was explained very clearly and was able to ask questions to any specific part. The course was well laid out and covered everything I had hoped it would.
Ruth Elliot, DKB Household UK Ltd Digital Marketing Manager
That we were in a small group, able to ask questions relating to our industry/roles, trainer gave detailed examples of the techniques we were learning, we were tested regularly to ensure we had learnt everything.
Emma Stepney, Godalming College
Everything, it was incredibly useful.
Oliver Fisher, Grow Magic Hydroponics
Everything was good.
Hayley Moody, Shanly Group Sales and Marketing Assistant
I have gone away with a new insight for Photoshop. I knew nothing before attending the training.
Martin Price, City & Financial Global Ltd
I found Layers interesting.
Victoria Buckley, Abplas Ltd
Being in a small group and being able to ask questions. Everyone was very approachable.
Gillian Rose, Sales & Marketing Co-ordinator
Very informative and specific to what I needed to know with regards to what I would use the skills for.
Alana Coyne
The style of teaching and small group environment.
Laura Dickson, Visitor Economy & Events Marketing Manager
Small group - i.e only me on course! bonus.
Susana Pinol Alonso
The fact that the group was small, we were only two.
Zoe Jones
Paul is fantastic and was very adaptable to what we were looking to get out of the course.
Ian Lucas
The tutor was helpful and I achieved my aims from the day lessons.




Photoshop Training FAQs
For General FAQs and Booking questions, see our FAQ Page.
Photoshop is still a very popular and powerful tool for photo editing and detailed visual work.
That said, lots of teams are now leaning more on Canva or Figma because they allow faster collaboration and quicker content creation.
It’s much easier to use these tool for everyday design tasks like internal materials, marketing visuals, and digital content.
Photoshop is typically introduced when more complex editing or creative control is needed.
Adobe Photoshop is available with a free 7 day trial, after which a standard subscription costss £21.98 per month.
Noise in a photograph is the unwanted variations in brightness and colour that make them less sharp and clear.
Learning noise reduction is a key part of producing top-quality images.
Bridge is a digital asset manager that allows you to find, manage and organise large collections of photos, which is why Photoshop users often speak about it.
Its use isn’t limited to Photoshop, as it can be used for all sorts of digital assets.
Raster-based means Photoshop stores images as millions of tiny dots (technically squares) of colour called pixels. It is one of two ways to store images.
This means that the higher the DPI (dots per inch) the higher the image quality and the more it can be zoomed into without compromising the image’s quality.
The other way to store an image is using vectors. Vector images are a combination of lines and paths (curves). This means that they remain high quality no matter how much you zoom in.
Confusingly, Photoshop contains a few vector tools including the pen tool, text and shape tools.
Where Do Your PhotoShop Courses Run?
London Training Venue & Course Details
London, WC2A 1AP
Tel: 0203 603 0150
Our City of London training centre sits in Holborn, one of central London’s most accessible locations. From the West End, Paddington, Liverpool Street or Canary Wharf – you’re rarely more than 20 minutes away.
See the full London location details here.
Guildford Training Venue & Course Details
Guildford, GU2 7YG
Tel: 01483 688 488
See the full Guildford location details here.
Online Courses
We run a full schedule of remote courses over Zoom.
We also deliver private courses over Teams, if requested.
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