New and Not so New Tools in Photoshop

With new tools coming to Photoshop we thought it would be a good idea to give a heads up as to what they might. We also thought it might be an idea to include some of the not so new as well. Not the newest but certainly one of the most popular features on the Photoshop Courses is the Content Aware Fill tool which has been greatly updated in the latest versions. 

Then there is the New Object Selection Tool coming to Photoshop in the very near future. But this is going to be quite a fluid post so as and when new tools appear we’ll add them to this post but in the meantime take a quick look at these Youtube videos to get an idea of what goes on in the software.

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What is Photoshop?

Photoshop has been around since the 80’s and is often described as the industry standard photo editing app. In essence what it does is create, edit and enhance photography for a multitude of purposes for both the business or home user.

Online Photoshop Training

As well as an Onsite Photoshop Training you can now learn online via your computer. This is live Online Photoshop training where you have full contact with your trainer, can share screens and ask questions and work with your trainer just as if you were in a traditional training room.

You can do this in bite sized smaller training chunks or over a day or two and its fine for either one to one sessions or small groups. 

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What’s it used for?

The answer to that is how long is a piece of string? It can be used in photo production for editing huge amounts of photos, to lightly edit business images, create animated GIF’s, edit basic videos, design social media icons and create digital artwork similar to paintings. It truly is huge.

What is a raster & what is a vector?

In short raster refers to a photograph (pixels) whilst vector refers to a drawn piece of artwork. So for example if David Bailey had to pick one he’d opt for Photoshop whereas Vincent Van Gogh would go for Illustrator.

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Photoshop Creation

I love running graphic design training courses especially when you see what people create in the space of one day. I love this image that was converted to Black and White on a recent Photoshop Course by one of the delegates. Who, incidentally had never used the software before.

See the before and after shots.

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Photoshop Quick Tips

In this post we will be taking a look at some of Photoshop’s useful tools that make real life at the desk a little easier. The first one we’ll look at is having more control during the image sharpening process.

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Photoshop CC 2018 Select Subject

At long last here is the new Select Subject Tool in Photoshop CC 2018 which, as its name suggests lets you select the main subject of the photo usually an animal or person but with a single click after which you go into Select and Mask to refine the subject selection. It’s all thanks to Adobes new ‘AI’ technology known as Adobe Sensei which is behind the Adobe Stock search engine. Enough of the technical already and lets take a look at how it works.

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Photoshop 2018 – Share

Photoshop 2018 is full of wonderful new features but on this post I thought I’d show one of the lesser known ones. Its the new Share feature, which gives you the ability to share or email photos to various services directly from within Photoshop including Facebook and Lightroom. 

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Photoshop Room Setup

It’s been Photoshop, Photoshop and Photoshop training this week with one of the courses being run down in the South West. The countryside views were absolutely stunning on the drive down.

This was the second of two training days where the course content had been specifically tailored for the companies design team and photographer. From the initial email contact through to the final training delivery day all aspects of the course were co-ordinated by the design team, HR and myself.

I thought it might be quite useful to show a few of the room setups from some Adobe training sessions run over recent months starting with this one…………………………

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Adobe Photoshop Training in Herefordshire

This Photoshop Training is held onsite across the UK, Herefordshire, Hereford, Ross-on-Wye, Leominster, Ledbury, Bromyard, Kington. and all surrounding counties and areas including Wales. Being West Midlands based means that I travel to most areas in the UK including Wales and Scotland. These Photoshop Courses are designed and developed for individuals or company groups with no experience of the software or those looking for refresher training to update their current skills. The courses  are run for 121 sessions or as company courses for teams looking for a more tailored Photoshop training course.

Photoshop Training is delivered at all levels from Introduction to Advanced and at no additional charge tailored course content can be designed around you and your business. Being an independent trainer means together we can focus on exactly what you want to learn and need to cover as opposed to sticking to the rigid Photoshop Training delivered by more traditional providers. These Photoshop Courses are fluid and constantly updated and have been developed over many years to ensure you get a clear and concise grip on the tools and features contained in the software. During our time together you will learn how to work with a variety of different images destined for both print, web and social media output.

Photoshop Training in brief

This Photoshop Course content takes between one and two days depending on the amount of people sitting on the training – for one person a day usually suffices but for small groups of between 4 and 6 people two days is more realistic.   

The Full Photoshop Course content can be viewed at the bottom of the page but in brief you will learn: 

Work with Photoshop Tools, Panels & Interface

Understand Layers and None-Destructive workflows

Create, edit and use accurate colour

Resize and Resolution

Make precise selections, add to and remove from selections

Learn to prepare images for both print, web & social media

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Photoshop & HDR Training Courses

Photoshop Courses including HDR & the Filter Gallery are run onsite across the UK, the Midlands onsite at your offices or home.  So what is HDR? HDR stands for high dynamic range and is used to bring out the full tonal range of the image. You normally use a number of photo’s with different settings to create an HDR effect although the most common amount is 3, one of which is under exposed whilst another is set to normal exposure with the third over exposed

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Photoshop Training Course in Oxford

Many of the Photoshop courses I run are customised and tailored to the individual clients requirements.  Yesterday I ran a Photoshop course for the graphics /photography department of a school in Oxfordshire which had a number of people on it. The delegates were of of varying levels and abilities ranging from complete beginner to advanced users but all were looking to incorporate Photoshop more in their own work teaching graphics and photography.

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