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Hands-On Photoshop: Level Two Intermediate

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Overview:

Once you have begun to use Photoshop and it has got its hooks into you, you'll know how addictive it can be! You quickly want to learn more – both for your own artwork, and for use with your students.

This busy, practical course helps to quell your cravings by offering you a whole raft of new skills and techniques to give you fresh confidence and inspiration. Many teachers who attend can't wait to get back to school or college to put what they have learnt into practice.

The course looks at making selections, shows how to add textures, how to use masks, and how to incorporate animation in Image Ready.

Please note: this course requires familiarity with Photoshop tools, palettes and basic techniques. For those new to Photoshop, please refer to our course flyer ‘Hands-On Photoshop: Level One Beginners' despatched to your school or college, or click here for another copy.

Main features of the course:

• An ideal follow-on from Photoshop Beginners
• Tons of new skills and inspiration
• Plenty of time for experimentation
• Capped group numbers ensure lots of contact with the trainer
• Your own PC set up with all the files for the day. You do not have to bring a laptop – unless you want to!

Course aimed at:

The course is ideal for all teachers wanting to increase their skills in producing their own artwork, and to improve their confidence to be able to use more complex Photoshop techniques with their students.

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Course programme:

The day starts at 9:30 for registration, and the first session is at 10:00. The course ends at approximately 15:45.

There are refreshments at registration, mid-morning, lunch and mid-afternoon. Full delegate materials and a certificate of attendance support the course.

•  Using paths

•  Adding, deleting and adjusting anchor points

•  Creating seamless tiles

•  Using the extract filter and the liquify filter

•  Automatic adjustments and using adjustments layers

•  Using the levels command and the curves command

•  Hue saturation

•  Channel mixer

•  Gradient map

Session 4 - Working with multiple layers, layer masks, opacity and creating a simple animation:

•  Working with multiple layers

•  Creating layer masks

•  Looking at animation in Image Ready

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Tutors – Penny Hill or Ruksana Patel:

Penny Hill ( London ):

Now working as an ICT trainer, Penny has over 20 years' ICT teaching experience in schools and FE. Renowned for her lively, engaging training style, Penny delivers courses from beginner to advanced levels for teachers and trainers at all levels of experience. Penny is an IT Consultant and Chief Examiner for a leading awarding body, and is the co-author of a number of ICT texts.

Ruksana Patel ( Manchester ):

Ruksana's experience as an ICT educational consultant and lecturer makes her ideally placed to deliver training on the latest advances in digital software. Her ICT training courses enable pupils, teachers and advisors at all levels to gain confidence in mastering new computer techniques. Ruksana is an IT Consultant and Chief Examiner for a leading awarding body.

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Dates and locations:

London : Thursday 24 November 2005, Wednesday 15 March 2006

Manchester : Monday 5 December 2005, Monday 13 March 2006

Please note that when you reserve a place on the course, we will fax venue details and a map of how to get there direct to you at school or college about 10 days prior to course delivery.

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Course Feedback:

What people who have attended the course have to say…

• “Handout booklet brilliant!”
• “Very professional – definitely recommended.”
• “Excellent. The course provided a number of ideas to use within lessons and the techniques to manipulate images.”
• “Very flexible tutor.”
• “Excellent explanations.”
• “The course was really helpful in developing my knowledge of Photoshop.”

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Booking:

We have despatched a copy of the flyer and booking form for this course direct to your school or college. If you would like another copy please click here.

To reserve a place on this course, or to receive any further information:

• Phone us on 0121 686 5120 – we can take all your details so no need to fill in a form!
• Fax us on 0121 686 5121
• Click here to send us an email
• Click here for an online booking form

Once we have received your information, we will contact you by post to confirm your booking.

Course fee £179. VAT @ 17.5% £31.33. Total cost £210.33.

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