Adobe Photoshop Workshop for Beginners | Nashville

About this workshop

Photoshop is the industry standard photo image editing software for print and digital output. In this hands-on introductory workshop, we will walk through Photoshop's basic capabilities and use tools and techniques to edit images and create visual design mock-ups - no design experience required!

This workshop will help students visualise products and designs using Photoshop and learn some basic visual design tips.

This class will include:

• introduction to raster and vector graphics, pixels and resolution
• image size and file types for print and screen
• grid structure of a page layout
• white space and hierarchy of information
• how we read the page
• the photoshop tool box
• selection and move tools
• working in layers, labelling and grouping
• isolating an object from it's background using masks
• retouching or extending a background
• creating gradients, shadows and reflections
• transforming an object
• lockups and alignment
• type, legibility and placeholder text
• logos on products and mock-ups
• doing a resize - using transparency to help position and scale an image in context

Prereqs & Preparation

Please attend with your laptop (Mac or PC is fine) and have Adobe Photoshop installed and ready to run before the class commences (you can download a free trial version of Photoshop if you don't have one yet).