Photoshop Training

Photoshop Training

Photoshop Training

You can choose from Beginners, Intermediate or Advanced courses in Photoshop. Or, pick and mix modules  to make up your own bespoke course. We offer remote, online training for individuals and groups.

About Your Trainer

Angie Taylor is the trainer for all courses taught at Creative Cabin. She has published several books & articles on motion graphic design. She is an Adobe Community Professional, contributing regularly to Adobe forums. She is a Linkedin learning instructor & teaches on MA Digital Media Arts at University of Brighton. 

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Photoshop training - in Brighton or remote

We teach all levels from beginner to advanced level Adobe Photoshop. Our Photoshop training courses are taught by a professional graphic designer with over 25 years experience.

Learning Photoshop is a great life-long skill to aquire. If you want qualifications, our course will help you to prepare for the Adobe authorisation exam. This course is taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor.

Our Adobe Photoshop course in Brighton

Photoshop is the industry standard software for photo retouching, making marketing materials, creating concept art. Our practical courses can help you to create creative projects for your own portfolio. We will teach you a variety of techniques, tips and tools. Our bespoke, 1-2-1 Adobe Photoshop training course in Brighton is perfect for anyone looking to improve their skills.

Remote Online Courses

You can learn via our Adobe Photoshop training course right here in Brighton. Perhaps you’re not located in Brighton? Or maybe you prefer to carry out the Adobe Photoshop training in the comfort of your own home. In these situations, we can provide remote, online Adobe Photoshop training on a 1-2-1 basis.

We use web conferencing software to deliver the training to you. The software makes use of the webcam, microphone and screen sharing services. It’s a great way to deliver 1-2-1 Adobe Photoshop training or training to groups of your employees – without face-to-face contact. This is particularly important in this difficult time as many of us have to self-isolate due to the Corona virus.

1-2-1 bespoke courses

We will develop bespoke course content for you. This will help our delegates get to grips with the basic and advanced concepts of Adobe Photoshop. Our Adobe Photoshop training course in Brighton is a one-to one course. so there’s just you and the trainer at the desk. We can tailor the course content to help suit your learning needs.

Schedules

Our tutor, Angie has over 25 years of industry practice as a graphic designer. We can offer flexible course times to fit in around your busy schedule. Most courses are held on Thursdays and Fridays but we can also discuss courses for the evening or on weekends. The online, remote Adobe Photoshop training course in Brighton is instructor-led. This Adobe Photoshop training course can be taken as a part-time evening course or taken over a long period, spread over weekends.

 

 

Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

What we cover in our Photoshop training

In this Adobe Photoshop training Angie Taylor shows just how easy it can be. You’ll tour the interface, gain an understanding of the workflow, and be introduced to core techniques. Angie will customize the course exactly to fit your needs.

All classes taught at the Creative Cabin are delivered on a one-to-one basis. This means it’s just you and Angie at the desk. You can ask questions whenever you want.  Angie will customise the course to fit your own needs.

 

How does the training work?

Angie will send you an evaluation form that takes a few minutes to complete.

This will give Angie an indication of the level of Photoshop training you require. She will customise the course to fit your own personal needs.

Evaluation form example

Photoshop Training modules

Photoshop Fundamentals

  • Navigating within the workspace
  • Bringing old photographs to life
  • Understanding different image formats and resolutions
  • Working nondestructively
  • Correcting badly shot images
  • Cloning and using Content aware to fill spaces
  • Applying dynamic adjustment layers
  • Working with selections and Quick Mask mode
  • Creating and formatting text
  • Drawing and painting with Photoshop
  • Saving files correctly for web delivery
  • Creating composite images with layers
  • Creating new images with the drawing and painting tools
  • Using the dodge and burn tools to focus interest or highlight areas of an image
  • The clone tool and healing brushes
  • Understanding layers and objects
  • Making selections
  • Adding effects to images
  • layer masks and transparency options
  • Combining layers with Blending modes

Photoshop Training modules

Photoshop Intermediate

  • Retouching photographs
  • Fixing images
  • Color correction and balancing
  • Formatting images for web, print or screens
  • Working with text and typography
  • Working with the Pen and Pencil tools
  • Tweaking, exporting, and saving artwork
  • Combining 3D elements in your images
  • Automating complex tasks with Actions
  • RGB, HLS and other color systems
  • Using RGB channels for color adjustment
  • Compositing images with alpha channels
  • Color spaces & color management in Photoshop
  • Retouching portraits
  • Nondestructive dodging and burning
  • Working with raw images in Camera Raw

Advanced Photoshop

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Premiere Pro Training

Premiere Pro Training

One-to-one Premiere Pro training

All Premiere Pro training courses at Creative Cabin are one-to-one courses. All courses are taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor.

Angie will customizse the training course to fit your unique workflow. There’s just you and Angie at the desk. You can go at your own speed and ask questions whenever you want.

All courses are bespoke and can be customised to fit your own needs.

Your Instructor

Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years. You can see examples of Angie’s work here on her portfolio.

Angie was also was employed by Adobe’s as their senior demo artist for video products for many years. She toured the world, speaking at trade shows and conferences on behalf of Adobe and Apple.

Angie is a published author with five books on motion graphic design. She also has several video training courses. These are available on LinkedIn Learning & Lynda.com. Angie also has several tutorials featured on Adobe TV.

In 2014 Angie moved to the south coast to set up her own private art school – Creative Cabin. At the cabin, Angie provides one-to-one bespoke training in several creative software applications.

Angie’s passionate about creative training. She loves to inspire designers and artists with new ideas and techniques. You can read some reviews of Angie’s training here on Google or Facebook.

If you cant get to Creative Cabin that’s no proble. Angie can offer you onsite training. She also offers remote training.

Customer Reviews

Want to hear what our customers think of our courses? You can read reviews about our training courses here. We also have lots of five star reviews on Google or Facebook.

Premiere Pro training

Here’s a selection of topics typically covered on a Premiere Pro course. Each course at Creative Cabin is bespoke. Once you confirm your booking, a training needs analysis survey will be sent to you. You can fill this in with all of your training requirements. We will then create a bespoke course, just for you. Choose from the list below or create your own list of topics to cover.

  • Adobe Workflow (with Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects etc)
  • Configuring Your Editor for optimal workflow
  • Setting Up a Project
  • Importing Media
  • Organizing Media
  • Essential Editing Skills
  • Timeline Operations (time remapping etc)
  • Trimming tools
  • Audio Mixing and Repair
  • Color Correction and Grading
  • Effects and Transitions
  • Color grading
  • Creating Titles
  • Captioning
  • Publishing Your Video
  • Multicam Editing
  • DSLR Workflow
  • Moving from Final Cut Pro
  • Moving from Avid Media Composer

    Training Location

    The Creative Cabin is situated to the east of Brighton on the cliff-tops, overlooking the English Channel. It’s a beautiful and inspiring place to learn about your favourite software applications.

Art Courses For Kids

Art Courses For Kids

Art & design courses for children

Bespoke art, design, sculpture, 3D & animation tutoring for children.

Angie works as a mentor and tutor for kids of all ages & abilities.

Angie also has experience teaching people with special needs including Autism and ADHD.

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Adobe Photoshop for kids

We teach several different art & design classes for kids. Our most popular course by far is our Photoshop courses for kids.

Graphic designers use special software like photoshop to achieve effective images an designs. The main goal of Photoshop course for kids  is to teach children how to enjoy creating images in easy and understandable way.

Drawing is a great way for kids to express themselves. It helps the to develop creative thinking and imagination.

Photoshop program is probably the most popular tool for editing images. In this course, your child will learn how to use and manipulate photographs. Basic editing, retouching and colour correcting of digital imagery.

The goal of this course is to kickstart your kid’s creative career at an early age. To help to equip them with the essential skills and knowledge for a career in the creative arts.

Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

Photoshop will help your kids to:

  • Learn the interface, shortcuts and basic function of photoshop
  • Understand how to work with layers
  • Import, combine and export images
  • Learn about color modes and traditional phtography terms
  • Learn to crop, color edit, sharpen and remove imperfections
  • Add type, selection technique and manipulate layer options.

Adobe Photoshop training topics:

Lesson 1: Getting Started with Photoshop

  • Introduction to Photoshop
  • Navigate the Photoshop Workspace
  • Customize Photoshop
  • Lesson 2: Image adjustments
  • Adjustment layers to improve images
  • Image effects

Lesson 2: Managing Selections and Layers

  • Use Selection Tools
  • Manage Layers
  • Lesson 4: Making Composite Images
  • Repairing images and removing elements
  • combining different images together
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Lesson 3: Drawing & Painting Images

  • Draw with Brushes
  • Create Gradients
  • Use Tool Presets

Lesson 4: Drawing Shapes with Vector  Tools

  • Create Images with Vector Paths
  • Use the Shape Drawing Tools
  • Work with Type
  • Type Special Effects

Lesson 5: Using Advanced Layer Techniques

  • Use Filters to Apply Special Effects
  • Apply Special Effects to Layers
  • Use Smart Objects for Non-destructive Editing

Lesson 06: Creating Animation & Video

  • Edit Video
  • Add Graphics, Titling, and Animations to Video
  • Make animated GIFs

Lesson 07: 3D

  • Learn how to import 3D Objects
  • Use Vanshing Point to fit them into a scene
  • Modify Images with Masks

Other subjects taught

Drawing

Angie teaches drawing, painting and sculpture. she can teach using traditional materials. If your child prefers, she can teach digital drawing, painting and sculpture skills.

Animation

Angie teaches all types pf animation. Adobe Character Animator is a great place to start for any child wanting to get into animation or game design.

Art appreciation

Angie teaches children about the history of art and design. Using examples that kids can relate to, she brings the stories of art to life.

3D & Sculpture

Angie has an honours degree in Sculpture. She can teach children how to create 3D models & digital sculpture using intuitive 3D software. She also teaches VR art & sculpture techniques.

Problem solving

your Angie teaches practical skills for planning creative projects. She’ll teach children how to be inventive and to think outside the box.

Cinema 4D training

Cinema 4D training

Cinema 4D

Our Cinema 4D training courses are taught by motion graphics expert, Angie Taylor – a motion graphic designer, author and illustrator with 25 years industry experience.

Choose from our standard two-day Cinema 4D training courses – all taught on a 1-2-1 basis. Or pick and mix modules from below to make up your own bespoke course.

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What we cover in our Cinema 4D training

There are two levels of Cinema 4D training available as well as custom courses. You can find example outlines of these courses by clicking on these links.

Each of these is a 2 day course

How does the training work?

Angie will send you an evaluation form that takes a few minutes to complete. This will give Angie an indication of the level of Cinema 4D training you require. She will customise the course to fit your own personal needs.

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Your Instructor - Angie Taylor

All courses are taught by artist, Angie Taylor. Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years.

She was a demo artist for Adobe and is an Adobe Community Professional. You can see examples of Angie's work here on her portfolio.

Angie is a lecturer at the Univeristy of Brighton. She has taught children and adults at several colleges, schools and universities.

Angie has several books & courses  published on design & animation.

Course outline

Motion graphics designer Angie Taylor shows you how to build a complete sequence in C4D Lite, progressing from initial object modeling, to animation, lighting, camera rigging, texturing, and final render.

Learn to animate text, create random movement with wiggle expressions, track cameras in live-action footage to add new 3D elements, and light your scene.

We can also customise the course to suit your own specific needs covering other aspects of the Cinema 4D software like character rigging and animation, cloth dynamics, mograph features and more.

 

Cinema 4D & After Effects

 Angie also round-trips the project files to After Effects for visual effects and color correction. With over 100 videos, this course allows you to explore almost every aspect of 3D motion graphics creation, within this accessible introductory tool.

Topics include:

  • What is CINEMA 4D Lite?
  • Understanding the CINEMA 4D Lite and After Effects CC workflow
  • Editing primitive objects
  • Spline modeling with NURBS
  • Animating with keyframes
  • Using Xpresso to link properties
  • Importing music and soundtracks
  • Creating and animating cameras
  • Working with text
  • Scripting
  • Creating and applying materials and textures
  • 3D camera tracking
  • Compositing layers
  • Lighting with visible lights and ambient occlusion
  • Adding visual effects in After Effects
  • Rendering in After Effects and the Adobe Media Encode

 

Cinema 4D Fundamentals

What is CINEMA 4D?

  • What CINEMA 4D can do
  • Opening CINEMA 4D files in After Effects
  • Quick interface tour
  • Navigation tips for CINEMA 4D

CINEMA 4D Lite preferences and settings

  • Checking out the new CINEWARE features with After Effects CC
  • CINEMA 4D Lite and After Effects CC Workflow
  •  Importing CINEMA 4D files in After Effects
  • The CINEWARE plugin settings
  • CINEMA 4D Lite render settings
  • After Effects project settings
  • After Effects previewing tips
  • Using the Picture Viewer in CINEMA 4D

Modeling in CINEMA 4D

  • Editing primitive objects
  • The Move and Scale tools
  • The Rotate tool
  • Axis limitations
  • Working cylinders
  • Linking body parts using object hierarchy
  • Adjusting NURBS settings
  • Using nulls as controllers
  • Creating copies with the Instance array
  • Carving shapes with the Boole array
  • Reshaping objects with deformers
  • Adding surface detail with a Relief object

Animating in CINEMA 4D

  • Understanding coordinates
  • Understanding rotation
  • Timeline shortcuts
  • Basic keyframing of properties
  • Keyframe interpolation
  • Adjusting F-Curves
  • Holding values
  • Using XPresso to link properties: Part one
  • Using XPresso to link properties: Part two
  • Importing existing animations into CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Animating cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Animating using presets

Cinema 4D Advanced

Working with Cameras in After Effects CC and CINEMA 4D

  • Importing music and soundtracks
  • Customizing commands and shortcuts
  • Adding markers
  • Creating multiple cameras in CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Cutting between CINEMA 4D cameras with CINEWARE
  • Creating cameras in After Effects
  • Merging 3D camera data into CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Animating cameras with Stage objects
  • Extracting cameras from CINEMA 4D files

Working with Text in After Effects CC and CINEMA 4D

  • Adding CINEMA 4D text to After Effects comps
  • Formatting text in CINEMA 4D
  • Creating CINEMA 4D text or logos in Illustrator
  • Importing Illustrator text into CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Applying material presets to text
  • Merging CINEMA 4D files
  • Registering CINEMA 4D Lite for MoGraph features
  • Using MoGraph Fracture on text
  • The MoGraph Random Effector

Scripting and Expressions in CINEMA 4D

  • Creating a wiggle expression
  • The Reset Position script

Materials and Textures in CINEMA 4D

  • Applying a custom material
  • Making a metallic material
  • Adding an environment channel
  • Adding texture with shaders
  • Built-in material presets
  • Combining materials
  • Using selection sets to isolate surfaces

Creating Environments in After Effects CC

  • 3D camera tracking in After Effects
  • Creating nulls from tracking points
  • Adjusting the Shadow Catcher for CINEMA 4D
  • Importing a CINEMA 4D file into a scene
  • Exporting CINEMA 4D files from After Effects comps
  • Merging objects from CINEMA 4D files
  • Manually adjusting scenes between apps

Layer-Based Compositing with CINEWARE

  • Setting up layers in CINEMA 4D
  • Compositing CINEMA 4D layers in After Effects
  • Casting shadows on layers in CINEWARE
  • Adding reflections in CINEMA 4D

Lighting Your Scene with CINEMA 4D

  • Using preset lighting setups
  • Light types in CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Creating visible lights
  • Adding ambient occlusion effects
  • Optimizing your CINEMA 4D scenes

Multipass Compositing with CINEWARE

  • Multipass compositing explained
  • Adding passes to render settings
  • Viewing passes in the Picture Viewer
  • Adding object buffers
  • External compositing tags in CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Previewing and experimenting with passes
  • CINEWARE multipass options
  • Adjusting reflections
  • Isolating elements with object buffers

Visual Effects with After Effects CC

  • Extracting 3D scene data
  • Adding video elements to a CINEMA 4D scene
  • Working with proxies
  • Color correction of shadows
  • Layer styles
  • Adjustment layers
  • Setting up depth of field in CINEMA 4D Lite
  • Adding depth of field with camera lens blur
  • Speed ramps with time remapping
  • Motion blur with the Pixel Motion Blur effect

Rendering in After Effects CC and Media Encoder

Adobe Illustrator training

Adobe Illustrator training

Illustrator training details

Adobe Illustrator is more powerful than ever before. In this Adobe Illustrator training, motion graphic designer and illustrator, Angie Taylor shows just how easy it can be to use. Get a tour of the interface, gain an understanding of the workflow, and be introduced to core techniques like working with artboards, understanding layers and objects, and making and moving selections. Angie also shows how to create images from shapes, apply color, reshape paths, and save and export artwork for the web, print, or animation.

One-to-one Adobe Illustrator training

All Adobe Illustrator courses at Creative Cabin are one-to-one courses. All courses are taught by Adobe Community Expert, Angie Taylor.

Angie will customizse the training course to fit your unique workflow. There’s just you and Angie at the desk. You can go at your own speed and ask questions whenever you want.

All courses are bespoke and can be customised to fit your own needs.

Your Instructor

Angie worked as a motion graphic designer for over 25 years. You can see examples of Angie’s work here on her portfolio.

Angie is an Adobe Community Professional. She has worked with Adobe since the early 1990’s. She regularly helps people on the Adobe community forums. She was their senior demo artist for video products for many years. She toured the world, speaking at trade shows and conferences on behalf of Adobe and Apple.

Angie is a published author with five books on motion graphic design. She also has several video training courses. These are available on LinkedIn Learning & Lynda.com. Angie also has several tutorials featured on Adobe TV.

In 2014 Angie moved to the south coast to set up her own private art school – Creative Cabin. At the cabin, Angie provides one-to-one bespoke training in several creative software applications.

Angie’s passionate about creative training. She loves to inspire designers and artists with new ideas and techniques. You can read some reviews of Angie’s training here on Google or Facebook.

Training Location

The Creative Cabin is situated to the east of Brighton on the cliff-tops, overlooking the English Channel. It’s a beautiful and inspiring place to learn about your favourite software applications.

If you cant get to Creative Cabin that’s no problem. Angie can offer you onsite training. She also offers remote training.

Customer Reviews

Want to hear what our customers think of our courses? You can read reviews about our training courses here. We also have lots of five star reviews on Google or Facebook.

Topics include:

  • Setting up a new document
  • Navigating within the workspace
  • Understanding layers and objects
  • Creating images from shapes
  • Applying color
  • Using the Appearance panel
  • Creating shapes with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools
  • Working with the Pen and Pencil tools
  • Tweaking, exporting, and saving artwork

1. Getting to Know Illustrator

Setting up a new document
User interface tour
Navigating within the workspace
Working with artboards
Understanding layers and objects
Making and moving selections

2. Creating Images

Using the shape tools
Combining shapes with the Pathfinder
Grouping objects
Transforming objects
Isolating shapes
Working with text

3. Applying Color

Fills and strokes
Gradients
Coloring artwork

4. Alternative Techniques

Using the Appearance panel
Creating shapes with the Blob Brush and Eraser tools
Working with the Pen and Pencil tools

5. Exporting & Saving

Reshaping paths
Saving and exporting artwork

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