Photoshop is a powerful tool that not only can be used to do amazing things with photos and other art, there are almost always two or more ways to accomplish your creative vision!  It can be a very intimidating program to open and begin using and to grasp the scope of its many tools and features.  

This is a student-centered, one-on-one, on-going course to help you meet your Photoshop goals.  Starting at the introductory level, or with your current skill set, I will design and provide lessons tailored to your specific needs and interests.  

I am an experienced professional photo editor who works with photographers all over the United States.  I would love to help you gain the confidence and skills to create your own art, enhance and edit your own photos, or start your own photo editing business.  


Common tasks photo editors complete include but are not limited to: cropping, color adjustment, blemish removal, distraction removal, people/object removal, hair clean-up, face swaps, head swaps, body contouring, background adjustments, glasses glare removal. Below are the most frequently used tools I will help you to understand, have confidence using, and master:

Class 1 - Tuesday, March 1
Layers - stack images on top of other images without interacting and mixing the pixels of images
Class 2 - Tuesday, March 8
Move Tools - move part of a layered image to a new location
Class 3 - Tuesday, March 15
Spot Healing Tool/Patch tool - remove blemishes from a photo, repair larger areas of an image, or get rid of any distractions 
Class 4 - Tuesday, March 22
Clone Stamp Tool - clone or copy image information from one area to another
Class 5 - Tuesday, March 29
Color Enhancements/Adjustments - adjust the brightness and contrast of your images
Class 6 - Tuesday, April 5
Cropping Tool and Content Aware - for cropping an image, removing background objects in an image
Class 7 - Tuesday, April 12
Quick Selection Tool - makes a selection based on the edges of objects
Class 8 - Tuesday, April 19
Patch Tool - patch selected content
Marquee and Lasso Tools - make selections around anything on a layer