Photoshop 2026
Fundamentals Training Course
This beginners course will teach you, step-by-step, how to create cutting-edge graphics and special effects with Adobe Photoshop. Trainees will complete a series of real world projects, where they will learn photo retouching, color adjustment, working with masks and layers, compositing images and much more.
What's Included
- Certificate of Course Completion
- Training Manual
- FREE Class Repeat
3 Days
$900.00
Live face-to-face instructor.
No minimum class size - all classes guaranteed to run!
This course is ideal for designers, marketers and anyone who is pursuing a career in graphic design. No prior experience of Photoshop is needed. Training available on both Mac and PC.
View our full range of Adobe Photoshop training courses, or see below for the detailed outline for Photoshop Fundamentals.
Detailed Course Outline
Learn the basics of viewing and navigating the Photoshop interface, along with the fundamentals of working with images.
- What’s new in 2026?
- Lecture: Concepts of Raster vs Vector
- Lecture: Artificial Intelligence features in Photoshop
- Creating & Managing A New Document / Workspaces
- Understanding Import/Export in PS 2026
- Non-Destructive Design Techniques 101
Simple Cleanup and Retouching: eliminate red eye, erase facial blemishes, and more in this quick, hands-on guide.
- Content-Aware vs AI: What is the difference?
- Fixing Blemishes using the Healing Tools
- Removing Red Eye, The Clone Stamp Tool
- Working with Artificial Intelligence Tools: Remove + More
Learn advanced selection techniques for accurately isolating parts of an image.
- Working with Selections & Non-Destructive Design
- What sets the amateurs apart from the pros
- The Primary 3 Selections Tools (AI Infused Selections)
- Erasing/Deleting vs Layer Masks
- Real-world selections in Adobe Photoshop
Learn the basics of typography and commonly used effects such as drop shadows, glows, and more.
- Fundamental Typography in Photoshop / Adobe Fonts
- Creating great looking text: Paragraphs vs Titles
- Stylizing Quotes and credits
- Getting artistic with creative typography
Learn how to isolate and combine images into a custom design for a social media post.
- Basic formatting, design and output for Screen
- Working with Brightness & Contrast
- Working with Color Balance
- Working with Layer Styles and Effects
Create a retro poster that brings together the techniques covered, skills that can be applied to many other projects.
- Basic formatting, design and output for Print
- Design and layout
- Working with Layer Style Effects
- Exporting work for Print,Web,Social and Film/TV
This optional module or lesson will go further into determining what file formats are best for specific situations.
- Project delivery: Print, Social Media, Film/TV & Beyond
- Common File Formats: JPEG / PNG / GIF / TIFF / More
- New File Formats: HEIC / HEVC / WEBP / JPEG-XR/XL / More
- Saving to the Cloud vs Computer
Use power features like Adjustment Layers and Masks to non-destructively alter color and manipulate images.
- Color Correction with Basic Color Adjustment
- Color Correction with Basic Adjustment Layers
- Color Targeting and Manipulation
- Selection Effects Features for Color Isolation
Use more features and techniques to clean and refine edges in your selections.
- Cleaning Edges Destructive vs Non-Destructive
- Feathering edges of selection
- Contracting and Expanding Selections
- Fundamentals of Select and Mask
Explore practical design tricks, overlooked tools, organizational strategies, and powerful review and sharing features.
- Fringe Editing Techniques
- Getting More Creative with tools people ignore
- Useful organizations and internal notes
- Amazing Review and Sharing features
Unlock the creative power of the Pen Tool to create amazing effects and art.
- Working with the Pen Tool Fundamentals
- Stroke & Fill Effects across a Path
- Paths as selections or paths as shapes
- Custom Artwork
Explore the more advanced text features like Text on a Path to get creative with type.
- Fonts and your rights to use them / Free / Licensed
- Create Text in a Path and linking
- Create and manipulate Text on a Path
- Hidden Text Warping Techniques
- Text Path Effects
Learn how to create, save, and manage presets which allow you to save your creative tools and designs.
- What are Presets?
- Preset Management
- Create Custom Shapes, Patterns, Swatches
- Importing and Exporting Presets
Explore practical design tricks, overlooked tools, organizational strategies, and powerful review and sharing features.
- Fringe Editing Techniques
- Getting More Creative with tools people ignore
- Useful organizations and internal notes
- Amazing Review and Sharing features
Use Photoshop to create and format graphics for video and web projects.
- Prepping for various screen formats and color accuracy
- Youtube Covers, Title Screens, Lower 3rds and more
- Presentations / Pitchdecks
- Prepping your Photoshop exports for video editing
- Adobe Premiere, Blackmagic Resolve, Media Composer
Use advanced Photoshop color and formatting features to create and deliver accurate color in your projects.
- Color Settings and Color Syncing
- Working with Color Libraries (Pantone & More)
- Setting for working with Print
- Settings for working with Screen (social, film/tv, etc)
- Fundamental color tweaking
Create, manipulate, and apply creative brushes for artistic and practical design purposes.
- The different types of Photoshop brushes
- Organic, utility, cosmetic and creative brushes
- Creating your own brushes
- 3rd Party Free & Paid Resources
Use some of Photoshop’s most popular filter effects on images and artwork.
- Motion & Radial Blurs
- Lighting & Distortion Effects
- Generated Effects: Flame, Trees
- Useful Legacy Effects
- Notable 3rd party effects
Use Photoshop’s AI-powered effects to create, manipulate, and repair images using the latest tools.
- Working with Neural Filters & AI FX
- Tweaking Neural Effects
- AI Upscaling & Denoising New features
- The Future of Neural Effects
Use your new found tools and techniques to create a digital marketing ad!
- Learn and work with masks and the Frame Tool
- Collage designs and building templates
- Interactive feature potential
- Designing Dimensions (IG,TW,FB,etc)
- Create Artwork for Instagram & Twitter
- Working with formats / GIF / WEBP / JPEG / PNG
Explore generative art workflows, tools, and limitations across Adobe and other AI platforms.
- Introduction to Generative Art (Adobe, Midjourney, ChatGPT, and beyond)
- Limitations of generative art
- Adobe versus the Others
- What is prompting?
- Generative Fill and Generative Extend
- Stylizations / References
- Altering reality in the best and worst ways
Our outlines are a guide to the content covered in a typical class. We may change or alter the course topics to meet the objectives of a particular class.
