Learn how to retouch and color correct photos, combine images, and create graphics in Photoshop. This course covers the basic and intermediate features of Photoshop such as color/contrast, photo retouching, layers, masks, filters, and saving files for web/video/print.
Master Photoshop from the ground up and prepare for the Adobe Certified Professional exam with expert-led training, hands-on projects, and personalized tutoring. This comprehensive program is ideal for aspiring designers, photographers, and creative professionals looking to earn industry-recognized certification.
Begin your journey as a professional graphic designer by learning the essential skills and tools used by industry experts. Gain hands-on experience in Adobe Photoshop, InDesign, and Illustrator, and create a stunning portfolio to showcase your talent to potential employers or clients.
Learn the fundamentals of Photoshop in this accelerated class, where you will discover how to retouch photos, remove unwanted elements, and save files for print or web. This class is perfect for beginners who want to improve their photo editing skills in a short amount of time.
Take your Photoshop skills to the next in this advanced Photoshop course. Learn how to make better selections (including hair), retouch skin, adjust color, use channels, use the Pen tool and work with vectors, realistically combine photos, and much more.
Adobe Photoshop is a widely known, highly versatile image editing program. Photoshop helps casual users edit their photos, empowers photographers and other visual artists, and is a frequent tool for many designers. In Charlotte, thousands of workers in hundreds of businesses use Photoshop regularly, alongside an even larger community of enthusiastic hobbyists. Photoshop is easy to start using, and inexpensive introductory classes are widely available in Charlotte or online. Dedicated creators and those who want to use Photoshop professionally can also find more advanced training in the Charlotte area, including bootcamps, professional training programs, and certificate courses.
“Is that real or is it Photoshopped?”
Adobe Photoshop is such a standard for photo and graphic editing that its name has become synonymous with image manipulation. While Photoshop can be used to alter photographs to create impossible scenes with impressive realism, these extreme examples are only a small part of Photoshop’s utility. Photoshop can perform virtually any operation on image files, such as:
Photoshop was created in 1987 by independent developers and was soon purchased by Adobe. Originally part of Adobe Illustrator, it is now a separate program, one of several apps combined into Adobe’s integrated Creative Cloud suite. Photoshop is complemented by such programs as Adobe Illustrator (vector graphics), Adobe After Effects (animated elements like motion graphics), and Adobe Premiere (video editing). Many third-party design programs, productivity apps, and social media sites also offer integration with Photoshop. Recently, Photoshop gained AI features through Adobe Firefly that help users with complex and repetitive tasks, improve the realism of edited images, and generate images and videos from descriptions.
Casual users, hobbyists, and professionals in many industries use Photoshop for image editing, either to produce finished digital graphics or to make images for larger projects. Photoshop’s most common use remains cleaning and modifying photographs. Users can turn an original imperfect picture into a polished, high-quality image, correcting details like framing, filtering, color balance, or reflections. Photoshop also allows the seamless removal of unwanted elements. Notoriously, the program can also alter an image’s content: removing blemishes, adding objects, and creating realistic fictions.
Photoshop’s many tools and their helpful guides and shortcuts give even novice users a powerful environment for creative expression and allow more skilled creators to quickly produce detailed visual art. Beyond photographs, Photoshop can import and edit other image types like raster and vector graphics. These images, plus text, can also be combined to create neatly blended composites. Photoshop’s layering and co-editing features make it a core tool for many Digital and Graphic Designers, who use it to make flyers, signs, digital and print ads, digital graphics for webpages and applications, and illustrations for publications like magazines and books.
Users can export images from Photoshop into a variety of formats, and the program is sometimes used to cleanly convert images. Its outputs can also be directed to other programs, manually or through automated integration. These images then become components for other, larger projects. For example, images from Photoshop could become part of a video assembled in Adobe Premiere or a website designed in Adobe Dreamweaver. Since an image’s dimensions, resolution, and other properties can be precisely adjusted in Photoshop, creators can be certain their results will be ready for use in other contexts. This precise control especially helps when creating motion graphics and other animations.
Introductory Photoshop classes start with a tutorial on the program itself, covering its interface structure, menus, palettes, preferences, and various file settings. Students learn how to select and import images, save work in progress, adjust general properties like size and resolution, and export finished files. A short introduction will usually address the most necessary uses of commonly used tools, while a longer introduction or bootcamp will cover more of Photoshop’s functions. Advanced classes address Photoshop’s fundamental tools in deeper detail, teach more challenging tools, and demonstrate Photoshop’s alternate uses like animation and video editing. Advanced classes are also more likely to teach Photoshop’s plug-ins and extensions—add-on software that gives the program new features. For example, Camera Raw is a plug-in that allows users to work with original, unfiltered digital image files.
Photo editing remains Photoshop’s most common use, and most Photoshop classes start demonstrating its tools using photographs. Used skillfully, Photoshop can repair a flawed photo or transform an ordinary picture into a unique creation. Photo editing methods also allow users to make their photographs more uniform and reformat photos for specific uses like web display. Thus, even users who are not producing photographs as their end product will need these core skills.
Photoshop’s photo editing tools include:
Creators need some artistic ability to unlock Photoshop’s full benefits and produce attractive, professional-quality products. Most artistic knowledge and abilities are beyond the scope of a software training class, but many Photoshop classes will address one of the most important principles of visual art: composition. Composition is a subpart of general design and refers to the arrangement of elements like shape, color, and spacing within a creation. Different arrangements produce more or less pleasant results, direct attention differently, and convey different meanings. Producing an image with intentional properties starts with knowing and using the principles of composition. Expert Photoshop instructors will not only discuss these concepts in theory, but they will also demonstrate good composition with examples and reemphasize these principles while guiding students through practice projects.
Some principles of visual design apply specifically to combinations of components and the complex images that result from their relative properties and placements. Graphic design studies and applies the principles that convey intentional meanings—both emotional and informational—through imagery. Graphic Designers carefully select, modify, and place images and text to produce attractive, effective results according to known effective patterns and individual inspiration. Graphic design creates layouts or component images for digital and print products, including publications, advertising, packaging, websites, and software. Photoshop is often taught within graphic design courses, and some Photoshop classes teach the program specifically for graphic design uses. Even Photoshop classes meant for a general audience will often include an explanation of graphic design due to the program’s common use in that industry.
Digital Designers create content in digital formats and for digital uses. While digital design can also apply to sound files, interfaces, and software, it more often refers to visual components like images, models, and animations. Within Photoshop, several tools specifically assist digital design tasks, and many other tools have applications for digital design. Knowing how to use these features correctly ensures that output files will be properly usable in other projects—i.e., have the correct file types, proportions, color coding, etc.—to import and display as intended. Digital design also informs the integration of Photoshop with other creative programs such as After Effects.
With the growing presence, diversity, and effectiveness of artificial intelligence systems, many creators want to employ these tools to simplify their work, produce effects that are difficult or impossible to shape manually, and explore new creative possibilities. Photoshop incorporates several kinds of AI tools, many enabled by its integration with Adobe Firefly, a suite of multiple AI features. In addition to generating full images from text descriptions, AI tools can perform complex edits involving multiple basic tools, such as removing or adding objects to photographs without obvious distortions, expanding images using generated backgrounds, or turning simple fonts into detailed text art. Many newer Photoshop classes include an introduction to AI tools. Certain advanced classes more fully explain these tools and guide students by using them in practice projects.
Adobe strives to make Photoshop user-friendly, intuitive, and approachable. However, its ease of use has to be balanced against Photoshop’s powerful utility. Its many features and detailed controls can intimidate first-time users. Novices will not know how to identify or use most of Photoshop’s features without good explanations, clear examples, and extended practice. Many current Photoshop users admit they had a steep initial learning curve and struggled to grasp Photoshop’s organization, options, and workflow.
Once users have overcome their uncertainty and gained confidence, they must develop their individual tool skills. Most Photoshop classes cannot cover every tool, especially not to their full depth. A good introduction can familiarize users with the most necessary tools, and a longer course can address more of Photoshop’s features, but learning every tool skill takes time. In particular, students may need hours of practice with targeted exercises to become proficient with every tool.
Another consideration when using Photoshop’s tools is creative skill: if users only study the program’s manipulations without corresponding visual artistic and design ability, their results will not be as coherent, attractive, or effective. Students who lack artistic or design training can become frustrated that even after learning Photoshop’s technical features, they cannot consistently apply those tools to get the images they want.
Mastering Photoshop further is an involved and long-term project and involves further knowledge of each tool’s full potential and the ways tools can interact. Professional users are not only fluent with the program’s editing tools; they also know how to use shortcuts and automation to work faster. Expert Photoshop users can also use plug-ins and extensions to further expand the program’s capabilities, creating new effects and performing complex tasks even faster. Finally, while Photoshop classes may explain the program’s integration with other Adobe Creative Cloud programs and third-party software, actually using this integration in a professional workflow requires still more training and practice.
As noted above, the first major challenge of learning Photoshop is to explore its interface and become familiar with its layout and contents. Early students often forget where certain options are located or how to use some features correctly. After this initial orientation, the next major challenge is learning Photoshop’s many tools: understanding what they do, controlling them proficiently, and learning how to create unique effects through inventive tool use. Aside from knowing the technical effects of tools, it can take artistic study and intuition, plus hands-on experience, to produce precise effects. Certain tools, particularly the Pen, Brush, and selection tools, can be tricky to control. Another powerful but sometimes confusing feature is layering, which allows users to ‘stack’ components to create composite images but still select and alter each element separately. New users often struggle to grasp proper layer creation, selection, and ordering, and how layers combine to produce complete images.
As with any complex creative program, Photoshop users vary in their fluency. A single class can teach a student what Photoshop is and what it is for, but even a full day of live instruction is not enough to make the program fully accessible. A longer introduction of two or more days is necessary to cover most of Photoshop’s features and practice using its core tools. After such an introduction, a student’s Photoshop ability will be limited, mainly covering general photo editing and image management. Building consistent proficiency with a majority of Photoshop’s tools typically requires two to three months, including at least one longer course or several shorter classes totaling a week or more of instruction, plus regular practice with varied images and tasks. This level of ability is usually sufficient for an entry-level design job, but not for a dedicated photo editor. Users at this intermediate level tend to be uncertain and inefficient. Greater fluency and efficiency come with longer and more varied practice over six months to a year. Users with no prior artistic or design experience will also need time to study these topics before they can use Photoshop to its fullest extent. Generally, achieving the broad fluency and detailed knowledge necessary to obtain Photoshop certification takes about 150 hours of study or two years of active career use. Finally, even the most proficient Photoshop users continue to discover new editing tricks, shortcuts, and effects throughout their careers.
In-person study in a shared physical classroom is the most traditional learning method. Face-to-face interaction and a shared learning space are helpful in many ways, but students incur added travel time and costs to meet in person. Limiting their class selections to local options also reduces a student’s choice of courses and instructors. Still, for a creative program like Photoshop, an in-person class ensures that students have access to a computer, Photoshop itself, sample files, and printed reference materials. Many students also prefer a classroom environment, which gives them fast, direct interaction with an instructor—and other students—without the technical limits and distractions of online study.
Live online study is conducted through video conferencing sites like Zoom or school websites. This class format combines the immediacy of live instruction with the convenience of virtual attendance. Live online students can still get quick instructor feedback and interaction, although perhaps slightly slower than for in-person classes. Online classes are particularly helpful because they eliminate the limitations of travel, reducing class costs and greatly expanding class options. Some students are also more comfortable when attending remotely, especially from home. While online students must supply their own internet connection, hardware, and software, many online Photoshop classes include a free or discounted subscription to the program. Sample files and texts can also be downloaded. However, some students will still find online learning more difficult due to technical, attentional, or sensory limitations.
Self-guided classes are also presented online and are sometimes called self-paced or asynchronous learning. The main virtue of this format is the ability to study at any time without being bound to a class schedule. This flexibility is accomplished by presenting classes through pre-recorded video lessons, texts, and exercises. Self-guided study also allows students to progress faster or slower and customize their training by skipping or adding lessons. However, self-guided classes lack a live instructor to provide further explanations or feedback. This absence can be frustrating when working with a complex program like Photoshop, especially when students get stuck. To compensate for their lack of active feedback, self-paced schools often provide limited email and phone contact with tutors, plus chatrooms and message boards. Even so, self-guided study is usually slower and more mentally demanding than an equivalent live course. Pre-recorded lessons are also less varied than live online options and cannot be updated as quickly to reflect Photoshop’s updates.
While Photoshop is a powerful tool, it cannot handle every visual design task, nor can it supply professional, practical, and artistic knowledge. To turn their editing skills into a career or productive talent, students should study a field that uses Photoshop. The most directly applicable disciplines are photography, visual arts like painting or drawing, visual design, and digital design. In particular, learning how raw images are created gives students the ability to generate original works like photographs, drawings, or digital graphics, and also teaches them what properties Photoshop alters with its tools. Design work, including graphic design and web design, teaches students how base components contribute, individually and in concert, to produce a coherent, meaningful composite. At the other end of the editing process, fields like advertising, publishing, web development, software development, and UI/UX development demonstrate uses for images created in Photoshop. Similarly, images from Photoshop can become components for other visual creative work, like animation and video editing.
Each of these fields requires additional tools beyond Photoshop, so students should also study other design programs and technical tools. Other programs in the Adobe Creative Cloud suite are natural choices due to their integration with Photoshop:
Adobe Firefly, a suite of AI features, works alongside all these programs to assist with complex and time-consuming tasks. Students may also want to study other AI tools like image generators or expert systems. A programming language like Python or JavaScript can also help Photoshop users automate complex and repetitive tasks or write custom software to feature their creations.
Many Charlotte businesses and organizations use Photoshop to create occasional images for internal documents, advertising, websites, and social media. Certain industries, like software development, education, and publishing, employ Photoshop more regularly to make prototypes and illustrations. However, the industries that use Photoshop most often—and the ones that most need skilled Photoshop users—revolve around image manipulation. Photography, digital art, and graphic design use Photoshop to clean, assemble, and finish images as products. Marketing, advertising, entertainment and media, and web design and development regularly need custom imagery as components for their projects. Overlapping with these businesses, animators can also use Photoshop as part of their process.
Photoshop is a central tool for the photography industry, used to clean and retouch images, combine photos into layouts and collages, and reformat image files for various uses, including websites, portfolios, or virtual albums. Artists can also use Photoshop to create new works based on original photographs. Charlotte has plenty of subjects for photographers to capture, including a beautiful natural environment; large events like sports, weddings, and festivals; public figures like politicians and celebrities; products for branding and advertising; and candid scenes. Many professional Photographers here are self-employed, either as artists, freelancers, or small business owners. Photoshop helps these independent creators quickly produce high-quality, consistent results. There are also many large photography studios, producers, and firms in and around Charlotte—more than 200, according to some listings.
Graphic design combines photographs, drawings, abstract shapes, and text into complex layouts, each element chosen and shaped to make a controlled impression and convey meaning. Graphic Designers and similar Visual Designers use Photoshop to assemble, adjust, and unify visual components to create layouts. They can also prepare components for use in other design programs, such as Adobe InDesign. Graphic design products include advertisements, publications, decorative images, product designs, and software and website interfaces. In addition to the many freelance Graphic Designers who provide flexible services for varied clients, graphic design firms assist corporate clients with large-scale design projects.
The marketing industry connects businesses with customers through advertising, branding, product design, product research, and public relations. Advertising, specifically, attracts customers and influences their opinions of a business and its products. These functions all make extensive use of images produced by graphic, visual, and digital designers, many of whom regularly use Photoshop. Marketing and advertising firms also employ many artists and designers to generate custom imagery, and their management staff may also use design software like Photoshop to evaluate creative work and make adjustments to designs. The advertising and marketing industry in Charlotte is expanding rapidly, fueled by the rise of tech startups and creative professionals relocating from traditional media hubs like Los Angeles and New York.
Like advertising, publishing, and education, entertainment and other media need custom images for illustrations. Artists and designers using programs like Photoshop produce a steady flow of images depicting people, events, and subjects of public interest. Entertainment products like film and television also include many other uses for Photoshop, such as concept art, storyboards, backgrounds, special effects, packaging, and promotions. News media can use Photoshop to create informational graphics and titles for publications and programs. Charlotte’s film and television industry, in particular, continues to grow, drawing major productions to the Carolinas with its diverse locations and skilled local workforce.
Within the web development industry, Web Designers and Front End Developers create the appearance and interactive features of webpages and are the most likely workers to use Photoshop as part of their work. Especially when not supported by visual artists and Graphic Designers, Web Designers may need to create images as components for webpages. A skilled Photoshop user can also reformat existing images for web use by adjusting size, resolution, color balance, and compression. Additionally, Photoshop is useful for creating prototypes of webpages and user interfaces.
Charlotte’s manufacturing sector—covering industries like automotive, textiles, plastics, and biomedical products—also benefits from professionals who understand Photoshop. In this field, Photoshop is used to create product mockups, enhance marketing materials, and develop technical illustrations that clearly communicate design concepts. It can also support training and internal communications by producing visual guides or infographics that explain production processes. As manufacturing in Charlotte embraces automation and digital transformation, creative professionals with Photoshop skills can play an important role in helping companies modernize their brand and outreach efforts.
Most Photographers in Charlotte are freelancers or small business owners, but some are employees of larger photography businesses like studios. Photographers also work for businesses that need photos frequently, such as auto dealerships, talent agencies, and marketing and advertising firms. Estimates place the number of working Photographers in North Carolina at around 4,000, across all employers, with around 400 photography jobs open every day. Photographers in Charlotte, across all positions, earn an average of $52,000 per year. An entry-level position as a Photographer’s Assistant averages about $36,000 per year.
Photo Editors’ primary work is to alter, improve, and reformat photographs. Editing software like Photoshop is the primary tool for these positions. Photo Editor jobs are sometimes found in large photography studios but are more common in other businesses that handle a high volume of photographs, like media outlets, publishers, advertisers, and web developers. In Charlotte, Photo Editors earn an average of $59,000 per year.
Visual Designers, Graphic Designers, and Digital Designers perform similar duties: creating custom imagery for use in products. Each of these design jobs also makes frequent use of image editing software like Photoshop, and their methods can overlap. However, each job has unique aspects. Visual Designers tend to focus on original images such as drawings, photographs, and digital graphics, and they interact more with visual artists. Graphic Designers more often assemble complex layouts from images and text and are most concerned with viewers’ perceptions and understanding of their designs. Digital Designers may create images, layouts, or animated elements, but their primary work is to make content that is ready for use in digital products like websites and software applications. All of these designers may be self-employed; may work within design, advertising, or publishing firms; or may provide design services within large companies. The average annual salary for a Visual Designer in Charlotte is around $35,000. For a Graphic Designer in Charlotte, the average annual salary is close to $73,000. A Digital Designer in Charlotte can earn around $94,000 per year.
Animators create the illusion of motion from sequences of static drawings. Their work can be as short as a few frames, particularly for Motion Graphics Designers, or as long as feature films. The most familiar kinds of animations, cartoons, and animated commercials were traditionally produced by 2D Animators. However, 3D Animators increasingly make cartoons as well as more photo-real videos and special effects. In addition to the entertainment and media industries, Animators also frequently work with educational publishers, advertisers, Web Developers, and Software Developers. Animators can create simple animations in Photoshop, but they more often use the program to create components like still frames, sprites, and backgrounds. Photoshop is also valuable for making concept art and storyboards for animation. In Charlotte, Animators generally earn an average of $34,000 per year, and 2D Animators in Charlotte earn about $58,000 per year. Positions requiring more technical skills earn more: the average salary for 3D Animators in Charlotte is $62,000 per year, and Motion Graphics Designers in Charlotte can earn about $63,000 per year.
UI Designers create the external interactive elements of products, particularly software. They combine graphic design with product design and knowledge about user behavior. UI Designers use Photoshop to create mockups of controls and user dashboards, as well as graphic elements to be used in interfaces. In addition to software development, UI Designers have roles in web development, electronics design, and other industries with a strong user service component, such as education, finance, and healthcare. In Charlotte, UI Designers earn an average of $79,000 per year.
UX design includes UI design alongside all other aspects of users’ experience with a product: their impressions, understandings, and interactions. In addition to designing control and informational features, UX Designers shape a product’s appearance and overall visual style. Their work requires training in marketing, communication, psychology, and product design, plus for software products, technical skills like coding and digital design. Depending on the type of product, UX design can include sketching prototypes, creating component graphics, and producing other imagery in Photoshop. A UX Designer in Charlotte can earn about $123,000 annually, on average.
Noble Desktop offers a full range of live online Photoshop courses, from a brief introduction to professional certification courses. Note that all of Noble Desktop’s courses include a supplemental workbook, a digital certificate of completion, and the option to retake the course once for free, within one year.
New users looking for a fast but thorough introduction can start with Photoshop in a Day, a class that covers all of Photoshop’s essential features in one full-day class or two evening sessions. This introduction teaches enough about retouching, customizing, and formatting images for most casual uses. Students looking for more detailed training can instead enroll in Noble Desktop’s Adobe Photoshop Bootcamp, which spans three full-day sessions or six evenings. Compared to the introductory class, this bootcamp teaches each core feature in more detail and includes guided practice. In particular, it expands on filters, layers, masks, and working with raw digital images. The bootcamp also includes several portfolio-quality practice projects, and participants can schedule a 1-on-1 session with a mentor to address difficult topics or discuss design careers.
Those seeking professional training in Photoshop, including certification, should take Noble Desktop’s Photoshop Certification Program. This training program combines Noble’s Photoshop Bootcamp with an additional two-day Photoshop Advanced class. This advanced course adds lessons on advanced color correction, masking, and blending; combining and separating images in composites; mastering the challenging Pen tool; and best practices for using Photoshop’s AI features. The certification program also includes two three-hour 1-on-1 mentoring sessions, additional video lessons to further prepare students for the Adobe Certified Professional certification exam, and a proctored exam session (including a free retake, if needed).
Businesses and other organizations whose members need Photoshop training can arrange live training classes with Noble Desktop. Live training is available in-person at your site or live online. Private sessions are fully customizable, with flexible options for curriculum and scheduling. Alternatively, you can choose any of Noble Desktop’s Photoshop courses, including introductory, advanced, bootcamp, and certificate programs. You could also include Photoshop training as part of a longer design course, such as graphic design or web design. Groups can also purchase vouchers for existing classes, at a discount for bulk purchases, and then distribute these vouchers to members. These members can then schedule classes that match their skill level and schedule. All Noble Desktop classes provide supplemental study materials and access to class recordings for extended study and practice.
Contact Noble Desktop at corporate@nobledesktop.com for a free consultation to discuss your corporate training needs. A consultant can answer your questions, help you create the perfect custom training program, book class sessions, or sell bulk course vouchers.
Charlotte is a city full of opportunity for professionals looking to grow their skills in tech, design, business, data, and more. As such, mastering tools like Photoshop can give you the ability to transform ideas into professional-looking visuals that catch the eye of consumers. Whether you're retouching photos, designing marketing materials, or creating digital art from scratch, there's real power in knowing how to use Photoshop in a city like Charlotte, where it's important to make your work stand out. Known as a major hub for finance, energy, and technology, the Queen City is home to numerous banks, investment firms, and insurance companies, including Truist and Bank of America, as well as Duke Energy, the region’s leading electric company, both of which would hire Photoshop professionals for various reasons. Noble Desktop offers hands-on training with expert instructors who are not only willing, but excited, to help you take your skills to the next level. These instructors have decades of experience and know what it takes to succeed in the field that you wish to explore. All in all, you can learn how to enter the professional landscape and thrive in your role, no matter what that may be. In a city like Charlotte, the opportunities are abundant, so professional training is well worth the time and effort.
Henry Gonzalez is a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and seasoned educator with over 30 years of experience working for the federal government as an Engineer, Manager, and Executive. During his time as an Executive, his main focus was program management of advanced technology programs in naval warfare, air traffic management, and homeland security. Now a retired senior official based in Charlotte, Gonzalez provides training in project and program management, leadership, and strategic planning to students and clients across sectors worldwide. He has achieved great heights in his career, obtaining the highest level of federal certification in acquisition program management and systems engineering. He also contributed to the Project Management Institute’s Standard for Program Management as a member of the original update team.
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