Course Timings
9.30 -10am Arrival, coffee & biscuits 10.00am camera settings & theory
12.30 -1.00pm light lunch (included)
1pm-3pm Practical photography
3pm-4pm Review photographs
4pm-5pm Photo-editing Demonstration
5pm Questions & course feedback
DSLR Course Requirements
Digital SLR Camera
Extra lenses - optional
External flashgun - optional
Fully charged battery and/or a spare
Empty memory card
Any other kit you need explaining
change of shoes if wet.
Please ensure you have a fully charged battery as we will be using your camera a lot and batteries do to tend to run out.For batteries and cards at huge discounts visit
What are the benefits of Photoshop over Picasa?
The main advantage Photoshop has over Picasa is the ability to only change part of a picture or replace one element with another. For instance you can make the sky darker in Photoshop without changing the landscape area whereas in Picasa any changes affect the whole picture.
What's the difference between Photoshop and Photoshop Elements?
Photoshop Elements is the cut down amateur version of Photoshop. It costs about 20% of the price but probably has 70% of the features. For amateurs Elements will normally do the job.
Photoshop & Picasa Group Courses
Photoshop Courses
These one day Photoshop group courses are restricted to three students and will suit anyone from the complete novice to the intermediate Photoshop user. The beginners courses are structured to worked with any version of Photoshop or Photoshop Elements although the screen may appear be slightly different with the various editions.
Your own laptop with Photoshop installed would be useful be we do have spare laptops you can use. The beginners courses are primarily aimed at the Photoshop basics of:
- Basic image adjustments using Levels
- Basic image adjustments using Curves (not Elements)
- Making selections using the Wand, Lasso & selection tools
- Improving & replacing skies
- An explanation of Image Size, Resolution & Quality
- Preparing Prints for exhibition or display
- Cropping for the web & print
All our Photoshop courses start off with the absolute basics and progress, step by step, through to some of the more technical aspects of the program. We only allow three students on any course so we can provide as much individual attention as possible. If it turns out one students has a greater knowledge than the others we can offer them extra more taxing projects. Any students will also be given password access to our growing library of online Photoshop tutorials.
Photoshop Private Tuition costs £299 - Monday - Friday & group courses cost £175pp for a maximum of 3 students on a weekend.
Picasa Private Tuition & Group Courses
Picasa v Photoshop
Where as the industry standard programme for image editing is Photoshop we at Digital Photography Courses are great fans of the free Picasa programme from Google. This amazing photo editing and storage program will allow you to file, edit, crop, rotate, straighten, email, back-up and share your images with ease. In fact there are some tasks that this free software will perform better than the full version of Photoshop CS5 which costs almost £500. This is such an extensive programme it takes a full day to cover it all and if you find Photoshop too complicated I would certainly look at attending one of our Picasa training courses. We are able to take four students and your own laptop with Picasa installed would be useful.
Course Outline
Picasa Lesson 1 - Downloading Picasa
Picasa Lesson 2 - Installing Picasa
Picasa Lesson 3 - Getting pictures from the camera to Picasa
Picasa Lesson 4 - Viewing images in Picasa
Picasa Lesson 5 - Selecting multiple images in Picasa
Picasa Lesson 6 - Emailing pictures from Picasa using Outlook
Picasa Lesson 7 - Emailing pictures from Picasa using GMail
Picasa Lesson 8 - More about saving pictures
Picasa Lesson 9 - Exporting Pictures to a memory card
And much,much more
PIcasa Private Tuition costs £299 - Monday - Friday and the group courses cost £150 pp for a maximum of 4 students on a weekend.
Choose a Photoshop or Picasa Course
DSLR Photography Plus Photoshop Tuition > More
The DSLR Photography plus Photoshop Tuition course follows the same basic structure as the normal one day one to one photography course but the practical photography exercise time is reduced to allow for a 2-3 hour Photoshop session. These session are flexible but normally include:
- Basic image adjustments using Levels
- Basic image adjustments using Curves
- Using Adjustment Layers and Masks
- An explanation of Image Size, Resolution & Quality
- Cropping for the web & print
DSLR Photography - Using RAW & HDR > More
The DSLR Photography plus RAW & HDR one to one course concentrates on landscape photography using the RAW file format & HDR techniques. These intensive photography & Photoshop courses are aimed at producing exhibition quality images for print or web use.
What is HDR?
HDR stands for Higher Dynamic Range. The human eye is great at seeing a very wide contrast range but unfortunately digital cameras record a much more limited tonal range. HDR is a method of taking several images and combining them in Photoshop to give a much truer representation of what the eye actually sees. If you find the landscape images your camera takes don't actually look like what you think you saw then this is the best photography course for you. A tripod and a laptop PC with Photoshop installed would be very useful for this course but we do have spares if required.
Please Contact Us If You Have Any Questions
email - glen@digitalcameracourses.co.uk or call 0116 279 6906
Student Testimonials
I wanted to learn the basics and improve a photograph by enhancing colours and doing a cut-out. This was an excellent relaxed Photoshop course where we were able to work at our own pace & cover the projects we wanted.
Annalli
I wanted to know how to correct over exposed images and correct colour balance. Also improve portraits and landscapes. I have really enjoyed myself and learned so much in one day. I now feel confident to explore Photoshop in much more depth.
Cherie
Having attending several course on digital photo editing using Photoshop covering the very basic to more sophisticated techniques I must stress complete satisfaction with Glen, the course content, and teaching methods used. I am now able to perform with much greater efficiency with some very good results. I have recommended these to several friends and would continue in the future. Best regards
Malcolm Wootton
A thoroughly enjoyable day with a good balance of theory followed by the practical session. I wanted to understand how to use the basic manual functions of the camera and I'm far more confident now that I will be able to capture the shot I'm after. -
Louise McHale
A fantastic course and I've thoroughly enjoyed the day. It was a very, very well taught and explained course. I look forward to attending more courses in the future.
Marie Llewellyn.
An excellent course which really showed me how to use my camera and improve my photography skills.
Melanie Alderson