Image Editing and Graphics - Adobe Photoshop CS6 - Intensive Introduction

You will study a comprehensive introduction to the image editing program. This course will teach you the fundamentals of the Photoshop Workflow, the RAW converter (ACR) and making adjustment Layers.

Learn to improve the visual quality of your image by making fundamental edits such as improving the tonal range, adjusting the brightness, contrast, hue, saturation, etc, using a variety of tools and adjustments. You will also learn the basics of cloning to remove unwanted elements in an image.

This course focuses on image editing and will lead onto our more advanced topical workshops. Once you've completed this course you can take Retouching Portraits, Retouching for Fashion and Beauty and Retouching Landscapes.

Course Content:

• Become familiar with the program
• RAW and Adobe Camera Raw (ACR)
• Brightness & Contrast
• Colour Corrections
• RGB and the 256 brightness levels
• Adjustment Layers
• Levels
• Curves
• Hue / Saturation
• Image Rotation
• Crop Tool
• Basic Retouching
• Healing Brush Tool
• Clone Stamp Tool
• Adding a border
• Canvas size
• Image Size and Pixel Dimensions

Saving Files & File Formats & their uses File Compression, File Size, History, History Brush Selections, Black & White Conversions

Good computer skills and a genuine interest in image editing and graphic manipulation.

Students are informally assessed on their coursework and can achieve a City & Islington Level 1 Image Editing Certificate.

You can take one of our other introductory or intermediate media courses in Web Design, Adobe Creative Suite etc. or progress to an intermediate course in this subject area.