Master Photoshop with our ACP exam masterclass. Learn from experts, enhance image editing skills and boost your design expertise with confidence.
4/6 day course 10am - 5pm Live Online or Classroom-based
What you will learn
- Understanding advanced layer management and masking techniques, enabling you to create complex, non-destructive edits with professional precision.
- How to use adjustment layers, levels and curves, empowering you to achieve perfect tonal and colour balance in any image.
- Exploring advanced selection tools and methods, helping you isolate intricate subjects and refine details for flawless compositing.
- How to retouch and enhance photographs using healing, cloning and content-aware tools, enabling you to produce polished, high-impact visuals.
- Understanding smart objects, filters and blending modes, helping you work flexibly and experiment creatively without losing image quality.
- How to design with text, vector shapes and effects, empowering you to craft striking graphics for both print and digital projects.
- Exploring efficient workflows, automation and batch processing, enabling you to save time and deliver consistent, high-quality results in your professional work.
- How to prepare for and succeed in the Adobe Certified Professional exam, helping you validate your expertise and advance your creative career.
Courses in this Masterclass
This Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course includes
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Authorised Certificate
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Lifetime support after your course
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Course materials
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Live Instructor-led training
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Refreshments all day
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Latest Mac or PC ready to go
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Authorised Trainers
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Hands-on exercises
Course Dates
These are the dates for the first part of the Masterclass: Photoshop Introduction. More experienced users may wish to start with the next level: Photoshop Intermediate.
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| Wed 17 - Thu 18 Sep 2025 | London |
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| Wed 24 - Thu 25 Sep 2025 | Live Online |
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| Wed 1 - Thu 2 Oct 2025 | Live Online |
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| Mon 13 - Tue 14 Oct 2025 | London |
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| Wed 22 - Thu 23 Oct 2025 | Live Online |
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| Wed 29 - Thu 30 Oct 2025 | London |
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| Thu 27 - Fri 28 Nov 2025 | London |
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| Wed 3 - Thu 4 Dec 2025 | Live Online |
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| Wed 10 - Thu 11 Dec 2025 | London |
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| Wed 7 - Thu 8 Jan 2026 | Live Online |
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Course Outline for Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam
Working in the Design Industry
- Purpose, audience and requirements for preparing images and suitability for target devices and media
- Thinking like a digital designer: designing accessible experiences at scale
- Communicating with colleagues and clients and understanding project management
- Understanding key terms eg. sketches, specifications, design process, wireframes, prototypes, iterations, change orders, drafts, feedback loop etc.
- Demonstrating knowledge of basic project management concepts eg. project scope, scope creep, cloud utilisation and file management
- Best practice in presenting design concepts to stakeholders
- Design business and ethics eg. copyright, permissions and licensing, including when and how to obtain permission to use images of people and locations
- Understanding key terms such as Creative Commons, public domain, intellectual property, derivative work, commercial use, attribution, work for hire, fair use, fair dealing, stock images, etc.
- Understanding key terms such as model release, location release, permission to use a person’s face or restricted location
- Demonstrating knowledge of digital image terminology eg. image resolution, image size, file types, pixel, raster, bitmap, vector, path, object, type, rasterizing, rendering, resampling, resizing, image size measured in pixels vs document size measured in inches/centimetres etc.
- Demonstrating knowledge of how colour is created in digital images
- Understanding key terms such as colour mode, bit depth, gamut, CMYK vs. RGB vs. grayscale etc.
- Working with raster and vector images
- Changing image size
- Communicating visually by using the elements and principles of design and common design techniques
- Understanding key terms such as space, line, shape, form, color, texture, emphasis/focal point, unity/harmony, variety, balance, alignment, proximity, repetition, rhythm, scale, movement, negative space, gestalt etc.
- Identifying and using common typographic adjustments to create contrast, hierarchy, and enhanced readability/legibility
- Understanding key terms such as font, size, style, colour, alignment, kerning, tracking, leading, horizontal and vertical scale, line length etc.
- Demonstrating knowledge of common photographic/cinematic composition terms and principles.
- Understanding key terms such as aspect ratio, rule of thirds, foreground, background, colour, tone, contrast, framing, depth of field, field of view, white balance
Project Setup and Interface
- Understanding the interface setup and program settings that assist in an efficient and effective workflow
- Understanding the proper use of digital assets for a project
- Understanding Document settings appropriate to on-screen, web, print and video
- Understanding key concepts such as width/height, orientation, artboards, resolution, colour mode, bit depth, background etc.
- Creating a new document preset to reuse for specific project needs.
- Creating, opening and import images
- Using Artboards
- Understanding bit depth and preferences
- Understanding the Application workspace
- Navigating, organising and customising the application workspace
- Identifying and manipulating elements of the Photoshop interface
- Understanding key concepts such as Options bar, menus, panels, toolbar, artboards etc.
- Organising and customising the workspace.
- Understanding key concepts such as tabbed documents; showing, hiding, nesting, and docking panels; saving and resetting workspaces; shortcuts and menus etc.
- Configuring application preferences
- Understanding key concepts such as Units and Rulers, changing the measurement unit on rulers, Performance, Scratch Disks, Interface etc.
- Workspace basics
- Use non-printing design tools in the interface to aid in design or workflow
- Understanding key concepts such as panning, zooming, rotating canvas, etc.
- Understanding key concepts such as adding/removing and locking/unlocking guides, setting colour, showing/hiding guides and grids, using snap or align options, creating guide layouts etc.
- Showing and hiding non-printing extras
- Importing assets and images from various devices including the concept of embedded, linked, copied and pasted etc
- Using the Adobe Camera Raw interface to import, open, process and save images
- Acquiring images from cameras and scanners
- Understanding colours, swatches and gradients
- Setting the active foreground and background colour
- Understanding key concepts such as Colour Picker, swatches, Eyedropper tool, hexadecimal value etc.
- Creating, customising and organising gradients including using the Gradient panel, editing colour and transparency stops, gradient options (radial and elliptical), grouping etc.
- Customising colour pickers and creating, editing and organising swatches
- Understanding key concepts such as grouping, creating, importing and exporting
- Using Brushes, styles and patterns including from libraries
Organising Documents
- Understanding layers and managing document structure for efficient workflows
- Renaming layers, creating layer groups, deleting empty layers, keeping the Layers panel organized, selecting, grouping vs. linking, flatten and merge, trade-offs with editability and file size etc
- Using layers to manage design elements
- Modifying layer visibility using opacity, blending modes, fill opacity and masks
- Understanding key concepts such as layer masks, clipping masks, frame tool, applying, deleting, disabling, and link/unlink etc.
- Understanding key concepts such as adding, deleting, hiding/showing, locking/unlocking, and duplicating etc.
- Managing and organising layers in a complex project
- Understanding key concepts such as background, pixel, adjustment, type, fill, shape, vector, Smart Object (embedded and linked), active/inactive (hidden), artboard layers etc.
- Combining images
- Adding special effects such as a neon light effect
- Understanding destructive editing (painting, adjustments, erasing, and rasterising) and non-destructive editing (Smart Objects, Smart Filters and adjustment layers)
- When to rasterise your type and shape layers
Creating and Modifying Visual Elements
- The Core tools and functionality that particularly affects the visual outcome of a document
- Creating and editing raster images
- Using key tools such as Crop, Perspective Crop, Pencil, Clone Stamp, History Brush, Eraser, Background Eraser, Magic Eraser, Gradient and Paint Bucket
- Creating and editing vector images
- Using key tools such as Pen, Freeform Pen, Curvature Pen, Add Anchor Point, Delete Anchor Point, Convert Point, Rectangle, Rounded Rectangle, Ellipse, Triangle, Polygon, Line and Custom Shape
- Retouching and repairing photos
- Using the Shape tools
- Adding and manipulating text using appropriate typographic settings
- Using type tools to add typography to a design; using expert typography
- Adjusting character and paragraph settings in a design
- Understanding key concepts such as using font, size, style, alignment and colour to enhance legibility, readability, and hierarchy; kerning, tracking, leading and horizontal and vertical scale etc.
- Converting text to graphics
- Rasterising type
- Making selections using key tools such as Quick Selection, Lasso tool, Magic Wand, marquee selection tools, Select Subject, Object Selection tool, Select Sky etc.
- Modifying and refining selections using methods such as keyboard modifiers, feather, expand, contract, inverse, select and mask workspace, refine hair, add to and subtract from selection, deselect etc.
- Saving and loading selections as channels
- Cleaning up a selection in the Select and Mask workspace
- Transforming digital graphics and media
- Modifying the canvas or artboards
- Using key tools for resizing, cropping, expanding, resampling etc.
- Understanding key concepts such as the difference between resize and resample
- Rotating, flipping and modifying individual layers, objects, selections, groups and graphical elements
- Understanding key concepts such as transforming, warping, distorting, skewing etc
- Adjusting crop, rotation, and canvas size
- Advanced cropping, resizing and resampling
- Transforming objects
- Using basic reconstructing and retouching techniques to manipulate digital graphics and media
- Applying basic auto-correction methods and tools
- Use various tools to repair and reconstruct images
- Using key tools such as healing tools, clone tools, Content-Aware tools, liquify etc.
- Using key tools such as Burn tool, Dodge tool, Desaturate options etc.
- Evaluating or adjusting the appearance of objects, selections or layers using various tools
- Understanding key concepts such as adjustments, adjustment layers, histogram, opacity, Eyedropper tool etc.
- Applying photographic changes to images using tools and adjustments
- Retouching images
- Adjusting the image quality
- Dodging and burning image areas
- Modifying the appearance of design elements using filters and styles
- Use filters to modify images destructively or non-destructively; Smart Filters vs filters
- Creating, managing and saving custom layer styles
- Applying, modifying, copying and removing layer styles
- Making a Colour Split
Publishing Digital Media
- Saving and exporting documents or assets within individual layers or selections
- Preparing images for export to web, print and video
- Checking documents for errors and project specifications
- Understanding key concepts such as setting colour space, resolution, pixel dimensions, metadata etc.
- Understanding colour management
- Understanding image size and resolution
- Metadata and notes
- Saving and exporting digital images to various file formats
- Save in the native file format for Photoshop (.psd).
- Understanding key concepts such as compatibility, saving as a copy, saving locally vs. in the Cloud etc.
- Saving in image formats appropriate for the intended purpose
- Understanding key concepts such as file format, bit depth, colour space, resolution, pixel dimensions, etc.
- Exporting project elements including layers, selections, exporting to files, exporting to libraries, metadata etc.
Adobe Certification Preparation and ACP Exam
- Working through exam preparation sheet and sample exam questions
- Taking a practice exam
- Questions and answers
- Taking the Photoshop ACP Exam
FAQs about the Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course
Is this Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course suitable for me?
This course is designed for people who are new to Photoshop or have been using Photoshop for a while but have never had formal training or who would like to learn best practice in Photoshop. If you are have any questions about whether the course could meet your needs, please speak to our customer service team, who will be delighted to advise you.
How is the content taught throughout the Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course?
Our Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course is extremely interactive. You will be using Photoshop throughout the day, working through examples and live projects under the guidance of our trainer, who will be supporting you through each step.
What is the recommended number of people for the class when I attend the Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course?
For private classes in Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam, we recommend a maximum of 8 to 10 people from the same company in the class. Please ask our customer service team to help you find the right balance of people per class and the number of days training you need.
Should I attend the Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course in person or live online?
For in-person courses at our London training centre, you will receive a warm personal welcome, your choice of the latest Mac or PC and morning and afternoon refreshments. If you prefer to attend remotely, rest assured that you will be taught live by the same experts that deliver our in-person courses, covering the same training content, using the same exercises and materials. A second monitor is recommended but not essential.
What support is available after I attend the Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course?
We offer ongoing support to our Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course attendees through email and by arrangement, phone calls. You are welcome to ask any questions on topics covered during training. Our trainer will always do their best to explain principles and help you with any issues you encounter.
Will I receive a certificate upon completion of my Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course?
Yes, you'll receive a certificate of completion from Transmedia, demonstrating your knowledge and attendance on our Adobe Photoshop Masterclass with ACP Exam course. Our certificates note our Authorised Training Centre status.
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