Photoshop Elements Course

Our Adobe Photoshop Elements Course can either be hosted onsite at your premises or as an Online Photoshop Elements Training session via video link with a live instructor.

On this course you will learn to create, edit and manipulate photo’s for print or digital output.

This course is designed for anyone looking to get a firm basic grasp of Photoshop Elements so is perfect for absolute beginners, or anyone looking to fill in existing gaps in their knowledge.

Who is this Photoshop Elements Training Course for?

This is an introduction to Photoshop Elements course so perfect for complete beginners or those with some knowledge and looking to increase it.

Over the years we’ve worked with a huge number of clients from different sectors both public and private. Photoshop Elements is particularly popular with home users but it’s also used extensively in a professional capacity as well.

But to give you an idea we’ve hosted this Photoshop Elements Training Course for  educators, photographers, admin staff, HR amongst others.

This flexible course covers the tools, features and techniques needed to produce professional images for print, web and social media meaning it’s perfect for small businesses or private individuals wishing to create and edit images quickly and easily for work or pleasure.

As with all our training courses we are happy to work with your content and files to create a completely tailored Photoshop Elements training session.

Over the years we’ve worked with a huge number of clients from different sectors both public and private. But to give you an idea we’ve hosted this Photoshop Elements Training Course for  educators, photographers, admin staff, HR amongst others.

Our training sessions cover all aspects of Photoshop from importing/exporting photo’s, retouching and recolouring, layers, resizing and resolution etc.

We always work very closely with our clients from the start of their Photoshop training project through to the very end focusing totally on their learning needs and current ability with the software.

Our Online Photoshop Elements Training Course is held virtually with a live instructor and run in video conferencing software of your choice including Zoom, Teams, Google or WebEx. 

Throughout your Elements training course you will have direct contact with your trainer via audio, video and screen sharing, everything is in real-time.

With live online courses you can learn from anywhere on the planet and speaking of planets one great big plus of an online Affinity Photo Course is to learn without travelling.

Saving both climate footprints, money and time and of course your environmental footprint is less.

We are happy to record your training session for you to refer back to after the training.

All our digital design courses are available online. 

Yes they are, we offer them on a 24 /7 basis and are quite happy to deliver them in full or 1/2 day blocks over the weekend. Please get in touch to discuss this with us.

An added bonus of our online courses is there’s no travel involved meaning less stress on the planet so environmentally it makes great sense.

No fighting traffic or public transport just get up, have tea /coffee, something to eat, turn on the computer and we’ll be there ready to deliver your course.

And by the way we don’t care if you’re wearing your Jim-Jams or last nights lop-sided party hat.

All our digital design courses are available online. If you have any questions about any of our Online Adobe Training courses please do not hesitate to pick up the phone or drop us an email.

Find out more about Photoshop Online Training

 

 

In brief you will learn how to work with existing photographs, enhance and retouch photographs and prepare your images for print /social media output. 

We start at the beginning by learning Elements environment and menus then move onto Tools and Panels to create and edit imagery.

The course is very flexible and hands on and because they’re private Adobe Training events fully customisable.

 

The list shown below is given as a basic outline but there is a more comprehensive Photoshop Elements Course overview at the bottom of the page and if you need further guidance please don’t hesitate to get in touch with us.

 

  • Meet Photoshop Elements Tools, Panels and Menus
  • Work with and understand colour
  • Photoshop Elements Selection Techniques /Auto Selection
  • Quick and Easy Fixes
  • *Guided Edits (Replace Background, Overlay, Water Colour)
  • Transformations
  • Photoshop Elements Layer Panel and Layers
  • Output to Print and Web
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There are a number of benefits to onsite courses but the main ones are that the training focuses entirely on you and your company requirements.

As the trainer comes directly to you there is absolutely no travelling involved saving your travel and expenses.

Generally onsite training tends to be cheaper than traditional training.

We can offer full flexibility and tailor the course content around you and your company and at flexible dates and times to suit you.

Photoshop Elements Course

The Photoshop Elements Course content takes between one and two days depending on the amount of people sitting on the training. As this Adobe Elements Course is mainly run for one or two persons a day usually suffices but for larger groups (depending on content) it may take two days.

As with the other Adobe Training Courses the overviews are only provided as guidance and the actual course content is always discussed prior to the course.  

Photoshop Elements Course - Overviews

Meeting Photoshop Elements

Tools Overview

Panels Overview

Window Menu

Photo Editor

Importing Photos

Working with the Photo Bin

Photoshop Elements & Layers

What are Layers?

Creating Layers

Working with the Layer Panel

Editing/ Duplicating/ Deleting Layers

Hiding /Showing Layers

Working with Fill Layers

Creating a Montage in Elements

What are Layers?

Creating Layers

Working with the Layer Panel

Editing/ Duplicating/ Deleting Layers

Hiding /Showing Layers

Working with Fill Layers

Photoshop Elements Tabs

Media Tab

People Tab

Places Tab

Adjustment Layers

What are Adjustment Layers

Why and When to use Adjustment Layers

Hue and Saturation Adjustment Layer

Levels Adjustment Layer

Brightness and Contrast

Safe Workflows

Working with Photos in Elements

Importing Photo’s from Camera Card

Editing Photo’s

Working with Catalogues

Understanding File Formats

Photoshop Elements Colour

Colour palette

Colour models

Paint bucket

Gradients

Photoshop Elements Transform Tool

Transforming Objects

Rotating Objects

Resizing /Resolution

Reshaping Objects

Straightening and Distorting

Photoshop Elements & Type

Adding Type

Character /Paragraph Type

Setting Type Styling

Text Overlay Templates

Photoshop Elements Selections

Selection Brushes

Magic Wand, Selection Brush

Quick Selection /Refine Edge Tools

Adding/removing/expanding selections

Retouching Techniques

Retouching Methods

Using Clone Stamp Tool

Using Content Aware Fill

Content Aware Move

Spot Healing Brush /Healing Brush

Photoshop Elements Environment

Quick /Guided and Expert Workspaces

Tools Panel

Image /Enhance Menus

Straighten & Crop Tool

Crop Tool /Setting Crop Presets

Onsite Photoshop Elements Training Locations

Our Adobe Photoshop Elements Courses are held UK wide including the Midlands, Birmingham, Leicester, Nottingham, Derby, Cheshire, Peak District, Chesterfield, Cambridge, Oxford, Stoke on Trent, Nuneaton, Hinckley, Sheffield, Coventry. 

We travel the length and breadth of the country so please get in touch to discuss locations and how we can help with your training course.