PhotoShop Training Courses

• 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 The Document Window
• Navigating With The Navigator Palette
• Navigating With The Hand And Zoom Tools
• Navigating With Keyboard Shortcuts
• Changing Screen Modes
• Working With Multiple Documents

• 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

•  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

For full details of this course, click on the Photoshop logo below to be taken to our Introduction to Adobe Photoshop course page.

For full details of this course, click on the Photoshop logo below to be taken to our Advanced Adobe Photoshop course page.

• 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

• 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

• 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

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