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Using Composition to Make Better Photographs

9th March 2019 – 9.30am to 5.00pm at Tansley, near Matlock in Derbyshire. Places cost £85.00 each.

Do you struggle to produce images that rise above the level of snapshots?
Are your photos technically sharp and well exposed but still “lacking something”?
Would you like to learn how to compose your pictures properly, rather than just “pointing and shooting”?

If so, join us on this one day course and photo walk suitable for all types of photographers and cameras – from phone cameras to professional dslrs. Continue reading “Using Composition to Make Better Photographs”

Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom

We don’t currently have any more of these group courses for Lightroom training scheduled, but many of our clients prefer to have personalised one to one training. One to one training can be carried out at a time and place to suit you – even in your own home working on your own computer. See here for more details of our one to one Lightroom training.

This one day course will help you to get started using Adobe Lightroom Classic and how to use its Library module to organize, sort and view the thousands of digital photographs that we create. 

The location is easily accessible from Sheffield, anywhere in Derbyshire, Nottingham or Manchester. To ensure everyone gets plenty of individual attention, numbers on this course will be limited to a maximum of six people.

While Lightroom is probably best known as an image editor, it is in fact much more than that. It has powerful image management capabilities which cover the photographer’s workflow from end to end – from copying pictures off your camera’s memory card right through to sending them for printing, creating slideshows, putting them on the web or sending them via email.

This course will show you how to get started with Lightroom, explain how it works differently from many other photo applications, how to use its powerful tools to help you organise and sort your images, and teach you best practise to help you easily find any particular image or group of images. Continue reading “Getting Started with Adobe Lightroom”

How to Photograph Derbyshire’s Industrial Past.

Please note: this course has now passed, but you can click here to see the next photography courses we have scheduled.

Saturday, November 1st – at Cromford village, Derbyshire. 10.00 am to 5.00 pm.

Because some of the locations where we will be photographing have limited capacity, this course will be limited to just 4 persons, with places costing £75.00 each. Contact us if you would like us to email you a booking form.

A barn for industrial workers at Cromford, DerbyshireJoin us for a special one day intermediate level course which will concentrate on photographing subjects from Derbyshire’s industrial past. It is being held at Cromford village (just south of Matlock on the A6), which is one of the cradles of the industrial revolution – as reflected in its status as a World Heritage Site. Continue reading “How to Photograph Derbyshire’s Industrial Past.”

Learn How to Edit Your Photographs Using Adobe Photoshop

Saturday May 5th at Cromford, Derbyshire. 10.00am to 5.00pm.

Please note: the date for this course has now passed, but you can see the dates for our upcoming photography courses here.

This one day workshop is suitable for anyone wanting to learn how to use Adobe Photoshop for editing their digital photographs. While Photoshop is the most comprehensive imaging editing software available, it can appear very complex and intimidating to new users. On this course, you will learn only those parts of Photoshop that are relevant for photo editing, and the tools that can help you to do that.

Through a range of guided practical exercises, you will learn how you can use some of the automatic and manual tools within Photoshop to:

A ruined lead mine in Derbyshire, edited using Adobe Photoshop software

  • download photographs from your camera
  • organize and compare your images to select the best ones
  • adjust the brightness and contrast of your images
  • correct and enhance colour to really bring your pictures alive
  • make striking black and white versions of your colour photographs
  • resize, crop and straighten your pictures
  • remove minor imperfections such as dust spots, vapour trails, power lines etc
  • add borders and text to your images
  • save them in the most suitable file formats for their intended use Continue reading “Learn How to Edit Your Photographs Using Adobe Photoshop”

An Introduction to Photo Editing using Adobe Photoshop Elements

Saturday May 26th in the Derbyshire Peak District.

Please note: the date for this course has now passed, but you can see the dates for our upcoming photography courses here

The guided edits dialogue in Photoshop Elements. Learn how to use it on a one day training course in Derbyshire with Peak digital Training

Peak Digital training is pleased to announce our first one day course devoted to using the popular Adobe Photoshop Elements software. Elements is a very powerful tool for editing your images, having about 70-80% of the functionality of its big brother Adobe Photoshop – and all for about one tenth of the price! However, despite Adobe’s attempts to make it more accessible, the Elements interface can still appear daunting to new users.

On this one day course, you will be shown how to find your way around the interface, and introduced to the most important features of the software in a practical way. You will learn how to: Continue reading “An Introduction to Photo Editing using Adobe Photoshop Elements”