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Exploring Photoshop

Top Dog Promotions

Exploring Photoshop workshop

The workshop leaders | This workshop | Scheme of work | Certified qualification | Evidence of participation | Booking

This workshop will act as an introduction to, or help you improve your skills with Adobe Photoshop. Almost every digital image on screen or in print has been processed at some point with Photoshop, whether to enhance its appearance or even change its contents. Proficiency in Photoshop will not only help bring the best out of your own digital photography but also be a valuable skill in all areas of new media and publishing.

The workshop leaders

Emma started out as a novice photographer when she was 16, taking pictures of bands and people. She developed this passion for 4 years before attending college to become qualified.

Emma left City of Westminster college in 2004 with a Btec National Diploma in photography. Since then she has worked freelance for Fin Costello an iconic rock photographer, fine tuning her love of creative band and portrait work. Most of the work Emma does now is within the music industry, she also undertakes creative portraits for clients within the motorsport industry. Much of Emma's work relies on two key ingredients - a well planned and creatively lit subject and then a lot of post production Photoshop work to create diverse and often fantastical images.

This workshop

The workshops can take place on one day aimed at students needing an introduction to Photoshop. Alternatively on longer workshops (spread over several sessions) students can be given simple introductory photographic editing assignments and bring the work back into class. The course will aim to provide students with a solid basic knowledge of editing pictures in Photoshop with a plan to learn some creative editing techniques. Practical and creative discussions can take place over what is good and bad about the images.

There will also be opportunities to take photographs during the session under supervision and with technical and creative help on hand from the tutor. Notes will be given out on the more technical aspects and guidance on composition, use of light, choice of subject etc.

Scheme of work

Principal purpose:

  • To engage and excite an interest in Photoshop or to improve existing editing ability and advance the creative ability within photoshop.

Benefits include:

  • Encouraging and enabling their creativity to be seen by the wider community
  • Introducing them to a potential vocation by learning a new skill
  • Getting the most from Photoshop editing
  • Getting images from a camera to a PC and potentially the internet
  • Learning how to use Photoshop to create and alter an image
  • Encouraging a wider exploration of Photoshop

Highlights of the workshop:

  • Learning what makes a good image and building on that to edit and create some excellent images of your own
  • Taking control over an image and learning how to reproduce desired effects in Photoshop

All participants will have the opportunity to:

  • Learn the difference between poor and excellence in imagery
  • Encouraged to think, what are the most important aspects of a good image
  • Learn how to use Photoshop - image editing software - to correct and edit an image
  • Learn how to use Photoshop to alter and change an image creatively
  • Learn about pixels (size of an image) and how to get the most when using Photoshop to print an image or save it for the web

Certified qualification

Top Dog Certificate of Achievement in EXPLORING PHOTOSHOP

All of our workshops are accredited with a certificate that all partakers can take away with them at the end as proof of their participation and to mark their achievement in learning a new skill.

Evidence of participation

Many youth schemes require evidence of learners' participation and achievements in wider learning projects to contribute to the young persons file or CV. Top Dog support this by providing other supporting evidence of participation in addition to the Top Dog Certificate of Achievement. Available for this workshop are:

  • Participants can scan their photographs or download and copy to a CD to take home
  • Students can take away a CD full of freely available image editing software, course notes, resources and tips, links to photography web sites (good and bad) that will help them on a journey of becoming a photographer
  • Records of attendance and evaluation/feedback forms are completed by all participants

Enquire about booking an Exploring Photoshop workshop

Top Dog Workshops, 6 Newport Road, Woolstone, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom, MK15 0AS
VAT no. 887164480  Top Dog Workshops is a trading name of Top Dog Promotions, registered in England and Wales with company no. 4323888
Phone +44 (0)1908 331820  Email info@topdogworkshops.co.uk
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