Product cutout set
Deliverable: Five product images cut cleanly from their backgrounds using masks rather than erasing, placed on a consistent new background with matched shadows.
Course
Adobe Photoshop
Photoshop taught around non-destructive editing, so every file you build can be revised later — the habit that separates someone who can use the tool from someone who can work with it.
- Duration: 2 months
- Classroom · Online live
- Level: beginner to advanced
What you will be able to do
- Build layered files that can still be revised weeks later
- Cut out a subject cleanly, including hair and soft edges
- Retouch a portrait without it looking retouched
- Correct colour and exposure using adjustment layers rather than destructive edits
- Prepare the same image correctly for print and for screen
- Diagnose why an image looks wrong and fix the actual cause
Who this course is for
- Anyone comfortable operating a computer
- Students and job seekers targeting design and DTP roles
- Photographers and small business owners editing their own images
- No drawing or design background required
Syllabus
6 modules · 2 months
Module 1. Foundations and the non-destructive habit
- Resolution, pixel dimensions and print size
- Colour modes, and why RGB reaches the printer wrong
- Layers, groups and file organisation
- Smart objects, and why almost everything should be one
Module 2. Selection and masking
- Marquee, lasso and the object selection tools
- Refining an edge, including hair
- Layer masks versus deleting pixels
- Clipping masks and compositing basics
Module 3. Retouching
- Clone, heal and patch, and when each is right
- Frequency separation for skin
- Dodge and burn without destroying tone
- Knowing when to stop
Module 4. Colour and tone
- Levels, curves and reading a histogram
- Adjustment layers and targeted correction
- Hue, saturation and selective colour
- Camera Raw for photographs
Module 5. Composition and effects
- Combining images so the light matches
- Shadows that sit the subject on a surface
- Blend modes and where they earn their keep
- Filters and smart filters
Module 6. Output
- Sharpening for the destination, not in general
- Export for web, and file size that respects a slow connection
- CMYK conversion, bleed and preparing a print file
- Packaging a file another person can open and edit
Tools and technologies you will use
- Adobe Photoshop
- Camera Raw
- Colour management and soft proofing
- PDF and print export
Projects you will build
Portrait retouch
Deliverable: A before-and-after portrait retouched non-destructively, with every adjustment on its own layer so any single change can be reversed independently.
Print-ready poster
Deliverable: An A3 composite poster exported to print specification — CMYK, correct resolution, bleed and crop marks — alongside a web version sized under 300 KB.
Where this course can take you
- Graphic Designer
- DTP Operator
- Photo Editor
- Social Media Designer
- Production Artist
Duration, modes and fees
- Duration
- 2 months
- Delivery modes
- Classroom · Online live
- Fees
- Share your details for the current fee
- Fees vary by batch and delivery mode. Ask about the combined fee if you take Photoshop and CorelDraw together.
Placement assistance
Every student gets placement assistance — that is what 100% placement assistance means. It is support for all, not a job for all. We do not promise a specific salary, a specific number of interviews, or placement at any named company, and you should be wary of anyone who does.
What is included
- A place in the monthly placement drive, held every third Saturday
- The readiness programme every second Saturday — mock interviews and preparation
- CV review against the specific roles you are targeting
- Portfolio review, so your project work is presented the way a reviewer will read it
- Access to the vacancy pool employers send directly to the Samyak network
- Guidance on which roles realistically fit your background and which do not
- A place in the next drive, with coaching, if you are not selected in this one
What is not included
- Any guarantee of a job, an interview, or a particular salary
- Placement at a named or partner company
- Applying to jobs on your behalf
- Support before you have completed the course and its project work
- Visa, relocation or overseas placement assistance
Everything here is built to be changed later
The difference between someone who can use Photoshop and someone you can hire is almost entirely whether their files survive a revision.
A cutout made with the eraser is finished forever. A cutout made with a mask can be adjusted in ten seconds when the client decides they want more of the shoulder. Same result on screen, completely different working life — and clients always revise.
So masks, adjustment layers and smart objects are introduced in the first module, not the last, and the projects are specified to require them. It feels slower for a fortnight and then it is permanently faster.
Why the print module is not an afterthought
Most image work in a print shop fails for one of four reasons — RGB sent instead of CMYK, screen resolution used for print, no bleed, or sharpening applied for the wrong output.
Each is a wasted print run. The last module covers all four explicitly with real files, because an image that looks perfect on a monitor and comes back muddy from the printer is the single most common way a new designer loses a client’s trust.
Retouching, and knowing when to stop
The technical part of retouching takes about a week to learn. The judgement takes longer and matters more.
Frequency separation will let you remove every texture from skin, and the result will look like plastic. The module spends as much time on restraint as on technique, because over-retouched work is instantly recognisable and reads as amateur to exactly the people you want to hire you.
Where Photoshop is the wrong tool
For a logo, a visiting card or anything that must scale, it is the wrong answer and we will say so plainly.
Those are vector jobs and belong in CorelDraw or Illustrator. Building a logo out of pixels is the most common mistake we see, and it only becomes obvious when somebody needs it on a hoarding and it arrives soft.
Questions
Adobe Photoshop — frequently asked questions
Do I need to be able to draw to learn Photoshop?
No. Photoshop is an image editor, not a drawing tool — the work is selection, masking, correction and composition, all of which are technique rather than talent. If you want to draw digitally, Illustrator and a tablet are the relevant combination and we will point you there instead.
Should I learn Photoshop or CorelDraw first?
It depends on the work. Photoshop handles photographs and anything pixel-based; CorelDraw handles logos, cards and layouts that must scale without going soft. For print shop and DTP work in India, CorelDraw is often the busier tool. Most people end up needing both, and each course assumes nothing about the other.
What is non-destructive editing and why does the course keep mentioning it?
It means the original pixels are never overwritten — adjustments live on their own layers, cutouts use masks instead of the eraser, and transformations happen inside smart objects. It matters because clients revise. A destructively edited file means starting again; a non-destructive one means changing one layer in two minutes.
Will this course cover photography as well?
Only the editing side, including Camera Raw for processing photographs. It does not teach camera operation, lighting or composition behind the lens. If you shoot your own work, the colour and tone module will change how you edit it, but the shooting itself is a different subject.
Enquire about Adobe Photoshop
Three details is all we need. A course advisor will call you back.
Related courses
- Graphic Design
Design principles first and software second, because employers hire for typography and layout judgement — the tools are learnable in weeks and the judgement is not.
- CorelDraw
The vector tool most Indian print shops actually run, taught around the files they need — logos, cards, flyers and banners that reach the printer correct the first time.
- Adobe Illustrator
The industry-standard vector tool, taught around building marks and illustrations properly — clean paths, real typography and files an agency or printer can open and edit.
- DTP (Desktop Publishing)
The job a print shop hires for, taught as the job — typing, layout, design and the preflight checks that decide whether a file prints correctly or comes back.
Next step
Talk to a course advisor
Tell us what you want to learn and we will help you pick the right course, batch and mode.