Photoshop Training / Courses

You may find it difficult to get a job as a designer based on home learning. 

There's this one year course in Leicester worth looking at and seeing if you can get financial help to fund: https://leicestercollege.ac.uk/course/graphic-design-and-emedia-foundation-degree-2021-22-c3192-art-design-and-graphics/

CityLit offer excellent online courses with discounts for those on low incomes: https://www.citylit.ac.uk/search/go?ts=custom&w=Graphic%20design

As an alternative to graphic design consider learning programming, you'll need to research to see which languages are in demand - difficult to learn so high demand and income from those who do.

I can't speak for Illustrator or InDesign as I'm not as well-versed in those apps but Adobe Evangelist Julianne Kost's Photoshop courses on LinkedIn Learning were where I cut my teeth. (She has excellent courses on subjects such as composites, too.)

(Note I already had some experience with image editing, starting with image editors like the old PhotoImpact to Paint Shop Pro and then Photoshop Elements which eventually led to full-on Photoshop. It felt like going from a Volkswagen to a Porsche. lol )

EDITED: For spelling, because I'm a derp.

Whereabouts are you in the UK?

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@defaulth6q3d2udr5jd wrote:

  If these courses are not run by Adobe in-house, could anyone possible provide a list of preferred UK training partners or somewhere reputable where I can learn (virtually)?

Hi @defaulth6q3d2udr5jd 

Here is the list of companies and trainers that are authorized by Adobe. If you want virtual, you do not need to limit yourself to the U.K., as most training companies have virtual as part of a live class (and most are online only with a live instructor during Covid.)

https://learning.adobe.com/partner-finder.html?country=United%20Kingdom

Use the filters on the left for the software, etc.

~ Jane

I mean all depends on what you want to learn.

Or what your end goal is when using the applications.

YouTube has several amazing tutorials.

Skillshare also several great tutorials.

And LinkedIn Learning has even more tutorials.

My suggestion would be to look up tutorials online relating to what you want to achieve or what your end goal is.

Then learn as you go.  And you know what you will always continue to learn new things.  I started using Photoshop in 1994.... and I still learn new tricks on a weekly basis.  As there different ways to achieve things.