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Is an Adobe Photoshop basics course worthwhile?

Natalie Hemengül
29.1.2019
Translation: machine translated
Support: Vanessa Kim

Would you like to feed your WhatsApp chats with funny photo montages and your Insta feed with unrealistically retouched images, but you don't have the necessary skills? We've taken a Photoshop basics course and know what you can expect.

The following points are covered over four half-days:

Important: The software is not included in the course price, but can be purchased at a reduced price as part of course participation.

What helps us massively: On each new course day, elements from the last one are looked at again and repeated. This allows routine to creep into the use of the individual Photoshop tools. In this way, we can overcome our fear of quickly forgetting what we have learnt. In addition, there will be enough time on the last day of the course to ask final questions and look again together at those tools and procedures that we have not yet internalised.

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Now you're probably wondering what we've taken away from this course for our work and which image corrections we'll be using regularly from now on. Specifically, these are the following points:

  • Smoothing out horizons
  • Retouch away blemishes
  • Eliminate red eyes
  • Adjust contrast, brightness, saturation, tonal value and gradation
  • Crop images correctly
  • Crop and move objects
  • Create photo montages
  • Working with RAW files
  • Integrate text elements

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Conclusion

Despite our initial trepidation, we are glad we took the course because we took home far more than just a certificate: Apart from the points listed above, we have lost our fear of the digital image editing programme and have the confidence to experiment beyond what we learnt. We now understand how Photoshop is structured and how we can help ourselves when problems arise. And lo and behold, I haven't worked with "Paint" once since then 😜

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