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Learn Photoshop to Advance Your Career

Learning Photoshop is essential to any visual design role in the digital age. Photoshop is a photo editor but it also contains hundreds of tools that can be applied to visual projects that are not photographs. From animation to graphic design, web design to user experience, it’s the go-to tool for nearly any format. Any visual creative will find Photoshop’s versatile functions useful on a daily basis.

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Photoshop’s flexibility is a fundamental skill for Web Designers. They use it to manipulate images to fit into their website’s design, create assets like icons and buttons, and build layouts for developers. Photoshop is one of the main three tools that Web Designers use on a daily basis.

Photoshop is a crucial skill for designers of any medium. Graphic Designers and Digital Designers use Photoshop for creative functions like combining images, applying effects, and adding text. Learning Photoshop alone is not enough to become a professional designer, but it’s the best place to start.

Higher-level design jobs like Design Director rely on photoshop heavily too. They use it to produce media that conveys a company’s vision, marketability, and connect with a target audience. The graphics that a Design Director creates make a big impact which makes Photoshop one of their most valuable requisite skills.

Photoshop is a useful tool for both 3D Animators and 2D Animators to create frame by frame animations, gifs, and vectors. But it’s not the main software they’ll be using for their work. However, it’s essential knowledge for any visual creative in the digital age.

Photoshop is often used in combination with other applications, especially other Adobe applications, to achieve a designer’s desired results. It’s also used by Photographers, Production Artists, and Marketers.

Photoshop Career Options

Here are a few career paths for which you’ll likely need Photoshop skills in order to succeed. We also include additional info about their average salaries, their day-to-day responsibilities, and a link to learn more about each career.

  • Graphic Designer

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $49K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $45K / year

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    Graphic designers work with both digital and physical media to create art that communicates and inspires. Using graphics, text, colors, and animations, graphics designers develop media assets for branding, advertising, and messaging. Graphics designers can work for agencies or themselves. They create a wide variety of design elements, such as brochures, infographics, marketing material layouts, and design elements for print, video, or web use.

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  • Designer

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $68K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $58K / year

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    Designers work in a wide variety of industries and specialize in just as many mediums. Most designers create digital assets, but some designers work with hand-drawn sketches and illustrations. They start with an understanding of the best design principles and functional aesthetics. Common fields for designers include web, apps, print, fashion, animation, advertising, and UX design.

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  • Web Designer

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $44K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $52K / year

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    Web designers design the appearance and workings of a website. They use their understanding of both visual design and technical design principles to create functional web layouts. Some web designers work from home and enjoy the flexibility of freelance work, while others work for agencies or businesses. Good web designers have the experience and foresight to anticipate the end-user experience and design for ease of use and navigation.

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  • UX Researcher

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $125K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $94K / year

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    User experience researchers analyze customer and client data to improve interactions. They design and lead focus groups in order to collect usability data, and then report their findings to inform future development and iterations. With a focus on improving brand loyalty and user satisfaction, user experience researchers share their insights with user experience developers to assist with future design efforts.

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  • 2D Animator

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $54K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $69K / year

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    2D animators develop storyboards, characters, and backgrounds to bring stories to life in 2D. Working with software such as Adobe After Effects, Photoshop, Illustrator, and 2D animators provide creative support to art directors in a variety of industries. 2D animators can work for studios or design firms, or as freelance independent contractors.

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  • 3D Animator

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $83K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $69K / year

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    3D animators take ideas and turn them into three-dimensional images and animations. Using their understanding of human and animal movement, 3d animators can create rich, realistic experiences. 3d animators work on movies and games, as well as some websites and online media. 3d animators create amusement park experiences such as those at Walt Disney World or Universal Studios.

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  • Digital Designer

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $94K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $58K / year

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    Digital Designers make graphics, animations, and other visual effects. Depending on their preference, a Digital Designer might choose to niche down to work exclusively on pre-print, web, or digital marketing. These niches that the Digital Designer is designing websites, applications, advertisements, or publications.

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  • Design Director

    Indeed Avg. Salary

    $139K / year

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    Glassdoor Avg. Salary

    $124K / year

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    A Design Director leads a team of creative professionals who curate the look and feel of a product or project through the production of visual strategies. They work on projects like magazines, movies, advertisements, video games, or websites. Design Directors can work in industries such as interior design, retail, marketing, architecture, and entertainment.

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Enroll in a Photoshop Course to Jumpstart your Career

To obtain the Photoshop skills needed for one of the careers above, enroll in one of the courses listed below. You can find even more Photoshop courses, available live online or in your area, on our Photoshop courses page.

  • Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp Learn The Skills Guarantee™

    Get a solid understanding of Photoshop so you can retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics. In this class, you’ll start with the basics and then move on to more intermediate features. Learn about color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, paths, filters, type, and saving files for print/web.

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    • $975
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  • Noble Desktop Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp

    In this 18-hour class, participants will learn the important fundamentals of Photoshop to start using it right away. Attendees will work on a variety of projects from photo editing to creating graphics for web and print. Students will learn how to retouch photos, correct color, combine photos, use layers, start working with masks, use filters, save files properly for print, web, and more. The class includes a free retake and a step-by-step workbook.

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  • Noble Desktop Photoshop in a Day

    In this 6-hour class, students will learn the basics of Photoshop for digitally touching up photographs. Students will discover foundational retouching and color correction techniques, learn how to make selections, and how to save files properly for web or print. The class includes a free retake and a step-by-step workbook.

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    • $325
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    • Beginner
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  • Noble Desktop Photoshop Advanced Retouching

    In this 18-hour class, students will learn how to take their Photoshop retouching skills to the next level. Students will move beyond the basics and learn how to make complex selections, apply advanced color correction techniques, explore masking in-depth, discover secret ways of using blend modes to improve contrast and color correction, and more. Attendees will also learn advanced sharpening techniques, how to smooth skin textures, and how to use color management to more faithfully reproduce colors across various media types such as web and print. The class includes a free retake and a step-by-step workbook.

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    • NYC
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    • $975
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    • Advanced
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  • Training Connection Photoshop 2020 Quickstart

    This single-day face-to-face course teaches the basics you need to use Adobe Photoshop. Students will learn how to use the program to retouch images, create effects, and prepare images for print. Professional instructors will guide students as they learn Photoshop shortcuts, tools, and functions. All students will create a movie poster by the end of the day-long session.

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    Locations:
    • Los Angeles
    • Chicago
    • $495
    • 1 Day
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    • Beginner
    • Free Retake
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  • Training Connection Photoshop 2020 Fundamentals

    This 3-day course teaches foundational skills in Adobe Photoshop 2020. Taught by Photoshop professionals, students will learn how to create, edit, and manipulate images, composite graphics, and retouch photos. By the final day of the course, students will know how to use Photoshop to create a video workflow, add smart filters and special effects, and design assets for social media. The final project involves the conversion of an image from peaceful to frightening, using many of the program’s graphic editing features.

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    • Chicago
    • $1,195
    • 3 Days
    • Weekdays
    • Beginner
    • Free Retake
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  • Training Connection Photoshop 2020 Advanced

    This advanced course in Adobe Photoshop 2020 will give students master-level skills. Students will learn techniques for color grading using curves, retouching, liquefication, displacement, and blending. They will practice working in perspective, creating lighting effects, compositing with color, and working with Adobe Camera Raw. This program relies on face-to-face instruction from experienced professionals to help students master the software.

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    Locations:
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    • $895
    • 2 Days
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    • Intermediate
    • Free Retake
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  • ONLC Training Centers Adobe Photoshop Core Skills: Level 1

    This introductory Photoshop course is meant to get students comfortable in the Photoshop interface while exercising new core skills in the process. Students can further their journey in mastering Photoshop by being introduced to selection tools, layering, and how to edit masks and channels. This course can help anyone strengthen their core skills and learn retouching, resolution, cropping, and adjusting color and tone.

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  • ONLC Training Centers Adobe Photoshop Core Skills: Level 2

    This 2-day advanced Photoshop course is an builds off the beginner course and has students learning real-world 'tips and tricks.' Students will dive into more advanced concepts inspired by the Level 1 course to continue to build up their Photoshop skills.

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  • American Graphics Institute Photoshop Bootcamp

    This comprehensive Photoshop course is meant to take students from beginner to intermediate level Photoshop users over 4 days. The program starts with Photoshop basics and getting comfortable with the interface and builds up to advanced Photoshop techniques and projects. Students will work on retouching photos, color correcting images, and more in this hands-on Photoshop course.

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    • Boston
    • Philadelphia
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    • $1,290
    • 4 Days
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    • Beginner
    • Free Retake
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  • American Graphics Institute Photoshop Training Class - Introduction

    This introductory Photoshop class is geared towards beginner users looking to get started with Photoshop. Students will learn how to properly use Photoshop's tools, how to retouch and color correct photographic images, and learn professional imaging workflows. Students will gain professional tips, tricks, keyboard shortcuts and essential foundation skills to round out their knowledge of Photoshop

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    Locations:
    • Boston
    • Philadelphia
    • Live Online
    • $595
    • 2 Days
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    • Beginner
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