Photo Editing – Introduction
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Unlock the creative potential of your photography by learning the fundamentals of professional photo editing. Develop the skills to enhance, refine and transform your images with confidence.
This course introduces the essential post-processing techniques used to improve and polish digital photographs. Working step by step, you will learn how to edit your images using industry-standard software and develop an effective editing workflow.
Each week, you will explore key tools and techniques including colour correction, tonal adjustment, cropping and composition refinement. The course focuses on helping you make thoughtful editing decisions that enhance your photographs while maintaining their natural quality.
By the end of the course, you will feel confident editing your own images and producing well-finished results suitable for printing or sharing digitally.
What’s covered
- Introduction to photo editing software and workflows
- Importing, organising and managing image files
- Basic colour correction and white balance
- Exposure, contrast and tonal adjustments
- Cropping and refining composition
- Enhancing images for print and screen
- Developing a consistent editing style
Entry Requirements
Basic camera skills are recommended. Completion of Introduction to Digital Photography or equivalent experience would be beneficial, but not necessary.
Information
Please bring your images either on a camera with its SD card and a ‘card reader’ or a download cable, or as files on an external hard drive or USB.
College computers and software will be provided.
Further Study
If you enjoy this course, you may wish to progress onto:
- Introduction to Digital Photography
- Photography Level 3 Pathway
These courses support further development of both technical and creative photography skills, and can form part of a progression route into higher-level study.
Part-time courses are term-time only.
See our term dates for further information.
Did you know that some of our courses are free if you earn less than £26,800* living in West Yorkshire, North Yorkshire & Lancashire?
*Pending Funding Guidance
Distance Learning call 01756 693 800 or email distancelearning@craven-college.ac.uk
Courses in the community call 01756 693 800 or email communitylearning@craven-college.ac.uk
All other Part-time courses call 01756 693 309 or email parttime@craven-college.ac.uk
