Adobe Photoshop: Level 1 Training
Ignite your creative spark and delve into the world of digital imaging with Applied Technology Academy’s specialized Adobe Photoshop: Level 1 Training. Whether you’re a photography enthusiast or an aspiring designer, our comprehensive training program empowers you with the skills and knowledge needed to bring your creative visions to life.
Course Overview
This class includes a thorough review of the Photoshop interface including how to use tools and panels as well as how to customize and save workspaces.
Core skills you will gain in this course include an understanding of strategies for retouching photographs, how to determine resolution and image size, how to straighten and crop images, and adjust color and tone.
You will learn to work with many of the selection tools in Photoshop to isolate parts of images for adjustment or editing. You will learn how to use layers and how to apply gradients, styles, and effects to layers. In addition to using selection tools, using masks and channels is an important Photoshop skill to create composite images or isolate parts of images. You will learn to create and edit masks and channels in this class.
Finally, you will learn how to use type in Photoshop, including how to create clipping masks from type, create type on a path, create paragraph text, warp point type, and create vertical text.
Course Outline
- Lesson 1: Getting to Know the Work Area
- Starting to work in Adobe Photoshop
- Using the tools
- Sampling a color
- Working with tools and tool properties
- Undoing actions in Photoshop
- More about panels and panel locations
- Lesson 2: Basic Photo Corrections
- Strategy for retouching
- Resolution and image size
- Opening a file with Adobe Bridge
- Straightening and cropping the image in Photoshop
- Adjusting the color and tone
- Using the Spot Healing Brush tool
- Applying a content-aware patch
- Repairing areas with the Clone Stamp tool
- Sharpening the image
- Lesson 3: Working with Selections
- About selecting and selection tools
- Getting started
- Using the Quick Selection tool
- Moving a selected area
- Manipulating selections
- Using the Magic Wand tool
- Selecting with the lasso tools
- Rotating a selection
- Selecting with the Magnetic Lasso tool
- Selecting from a center point
- Resizing and copying a selection
- Cropping an image
- Lesson 4: Layer Basics
- About layers
- Getting started
- Using the Layers panel
- Rearranging layers
- Applying a gradient to a layer
- Applying a layer style
- Adding an adjustment layer
- Updating layer effects
- Adding a border
- Flattening and saving files
- Lesson 5: Masks and Channels
- Working with masks and channels
- Getting started
- Using Select and Mask
- Creating a quick mask
- Manipulating an image with Puppet Warp
- Using an alpha channel to create a shadow
- Lesson 6: Typographic Design
- About type
- Getting started
- Creating a clipping mask from type
- Creating type on a path
- Warping point type
- Designing paragraphs of type
- Adding a rounded rectangle
- Adding vertical text
Intended Audience
This course is appropriate for beginners and for anyone who is self taught on the basics of Photoshop. Quite often even experienced users find they benefit from a Core Skills: Level 1 class to fill in the gaps in their knowledge.
However, if you feel that you are already familiar with the content covered in the Level 1 course, you can view the Level 2 course outline here:
Photoshop CC Core Skills: Level 2
Prerequisites
Basic computer and file management skills are required for Core Skills level Adobe courses. Students should know how to – locate, copy, and open files; create folders; arrange, re-size, minimize, and maximize application windows; start and exit programs; manage use of multiple programs simultaneously; and switch between open programs.
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Subject: Request for Business Applications training from Applied Technology Academy
[Decision Maker Name],
I'm writing to request time and budget approval to complete Applied Technology Academy's course, Adobe Photoshop: Level 1 Training. The information below outlines how this training benefits our organization, the tasks I'll be able to perform after completing it, and relevant cost and funding details.
Course Description
Ignite your creative spark and delve into the world of digital imaging with Applied Technology Academy’s specialized Adobe Photoshop: Level 1 Training. Whether you’re a photography enthusiast or an aspiring designer, our comprehensive training program empowers you with the skills and knowledge needed to bring your creative visions to life. Applied Technology Academy is an award-winning, SBA-certified woman-owned training provider (est. 2008) whose instructors are active practitioners. The course combines instructor-led training with practical exercises, real-world examples, and computer-based activities designed to reinforce job-relevant skills.
Course Objectives
Once I've completed the course, I'll have job-ready skills in business applications that I can apply immediately to our work.
Expected Organizational Benefits
After completing this course, I will be better equipped to apply these skills directly to our projects, reduce our reliance on outside expertise, strengthen our team's capabilities, and share what I learn with colleagues.
Expected Cost & Funding
Course fee: [request an itemized quote at the link below]. Applied Technology Academy supports multiple funding paths that may reduce or cover this cost: GSA MAS purchasing and government purchase orders, military credentialing funding (Army CA, AF COOL, CG COOL), VA GI Bill and VR&E, ATA Flexible Spending, and student financing. Private team cohorts are available if colleagues should attend with me.
Conclusion
This training provides practical, hands-on experience I can apply immediately to strengthen our work in business applications. Additional course information is available at https://appliedtechnologyacademy.com/adobe-training/adobe-photoshop-level-1-training/.
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