Unleash The Full Potential of Your Photos
Are you a photographer who wants to take your images to the next level?
Tired of feeling limited by what you can achieve in-camera?
"Photoshop for Photographers" is your guide to unleashing the full potential of your photos.
This comprehensive online class is designed specifically for photographers like you who want to:
- Retouch with Precision: Remove blemishes, and enhance your photos naturally.
- Correct and Enhance: Perfect exposures, adjust colours, and bring out the hidden details in your shots.
- Create Stunning Composites: Enhance skies, merge images, and craft scenes that were impossible to capture in a single frame.
- Develop Your Unique Style: Master colour grading techniques to give your photos a signature look.
- Streamline Your Workflow: Learn efficient editing techniques that save you time and energy.
Over 10 weeks of LIVE lessons, you will master essential techniques like custom brush creation, non-destructive editing, and advanced colour grading.
As we advance through the class, we dive into the world of creative manipulation with Liquify, Puppet Warp, and detail extraction.
Harness the power of luminosity masks, LUTs, and gradient mapping to create stunning visuals.
Explore the cutting-edge capabilities of Neural Filters and Generative AI for unparalleled creative expression.
What You'll Learn
Elevate your photo editing skills with our comprehensive Photoshop class:
- Essential Photoshop Foundations: Layers, masks, and non-destructive editing.
- Retouching Mastery: Spot healing, patching, and cloning.
- Creative Transformations: Content-aware scaling, moving, and cropping techniques.
- Selection Precision: Mastering various selection tools for complex edits.
- Colour Correction & Grading: Levels, curves, colour balance, and developing your artistic style.
- Fine tune your images: Smart objects, blend modes, dodging and burning and using adjustment layers.
- Master the essentials: brushes, non-destructive editing, colour grading
- Unleash your creativity: Liquify, Puppet Warp, detail extraction
- Transform your images: luminosity masks, LUTs, gradient mapping
- Explore the future: Neural Filters, Generative AI
- Create stunning visuals: advanced compositing techniques
- Perfect your craft: expert colour management
- And Much More...
Unlock the full potential of Photoshop and elevate your photography to new heights!
Meet the Instructor - Jonathan Vaines
We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Vaines to the Photoclub247 team as our resident Photoshop expert.
He is an internationally recognised photographic judge and teacher, known for his innovative creative approach and post-processing expertise.
Jonathan regularly teaches Photoshop online, both in groups and one to one sessions. He is also an Educator for the Royal Photographic Society and runs processing workshops for them.
Based in Bedfordshire, UK, he empowers photographers around the world.
Photoshop for Photographers
This Photoshop class features 10 lessons taking place over Zoom. You can watch Jonathan demonstrate each technique and get answers to your questions. Each lesson is recorded and all images used by Jonathan, as well as additional learning material, will be available for 1 year so you can follow up in your own time. Here is the outline agenda for the 10 week class...
Lesson 1
Workspace & Settings
- Workspace
- Photoshop Settings
- Workflow overview
- Introduction to masks
- Non-destructive working
- Tools and toolbars
- The concept of layers
- Introduction to brushes
In this lesson we cover essential topics like file management, ensuring your images are optimised for Photoshop. We'll customize your workspace to enhance your workflow and explore various Photoshop settings to tailor the software to your preferences. We will also cover essential concepts such as non-destructive editing, toolbars, layers, masks and brushes
Lesson 2
Non-destructive Working
- Spot heal
- Patch
- Clone tool
- Remove tool
- Transforming
- Content Aware Cropping
Photoshops powerful tools make it easy to remove blemishes, imperfections, and unwanted objects from your images. In this lesson, you'll learn how to use the Spot Heal tool, Patch tool, Clone tool, and Remove tool. This lesson will also delve into advanced techniques like Content Aware Crop and transformation tools.
Lesson 3
Content Aware Tools
- Content Aware Scale
- Content Aware Move
- Gradient Tool
- Adjustments layers
- Levels & Curves
In this lesson, we will learn how to resize your images while preserving their integrity, seamlessly reposition elements within your photos and elevate your images with smooth colour transitions
Lesson 4
Selections
- Marquee tool
- Selection Brush
- Select and Mask Module
- Polygonal Selection tool
- Magnetic Lasso
- Lasso selection tool
Photoshop offers various selection tools for precise image editing. In this lesson, we will learn how to use these tools help isolate specific areas within an image for further editing or manipulation.
Lesson 5
Blend Modes
- Smart Objects
- Introduction to Blend modes
- Dodge & Burn
- Colour changes
In this lesson we explore transformative power of smart objects, blend modes, adjustment layers, and colour correction techniques
Lesson 6
Customisation and Blending
- Making your own brushes
- Importing and exporting pre-sets
- Working with Textures
- Blend IF module
In this lesson, you'll learn how to craft personalised brushes to achieve unique effects in your edits. We'll explore importing and exporting presets for efficient workflows and discover how to seamlessly integrate textures into your images for added depth and dimension. Finally, we'll unlock the power of the Blend If module to fine-tune blending and create striking composites.
Lesson 7
Mastering Image Refinement
- Non-destructive Sharpening methods
- Liquify module
- Puppet Warp
- Moving Light from images to image and colour matching
In our seventh lesson, we delve deeper into Photoshop's transformative tools, focusing on non-destructive sharpening techniques to enhance image clarity without sacrificing quality. We'll master the Liquify module for subtle reshaping and artistic distortions, and explore Puppet Warp to bend and manipulate images with ease. Additionally, we'll learn how to seamlessly transfer lighting effects and colours between images, ensuring consistent aesthetics across your projects.
Lesson 8
Isolate and Enhance
- Detail Extraction
- Frequency Separation
In this lesson, we unlock advanced techniques for achieving exceptional image detail and precision. We'll delve into the world of detail extraction, learning how to isolate and enhance fine textures without affecting overall tones. Then, we'll master frequency separation, a powerful method for separating an image into high and low-frequency components, allowing for targeted retouching and smoothing.
Lesson 9
Blurring, Text & Colour Grading
- Blur and the Blur Gallery
- Adding Text
- Luminosity Masks to create natural HDR
- Look Up Tables
- Gradient Mapping
In this lesson, we'll explore the creative and practical applications of blurring in Photoshop. We'll delve into the diverse range of blurring techniques available in the Blur Gallery, discovering how to add depth, focus attention, and create artistic effects. Additionally, we'll learn the ins and outs of adding text to images, mastering placement, styling, and effects to enhance your visual communication. We'll delve into advanced colour grading techniques in Photoshop. We'll uncover the power of luminosity masks to create natural-looking High Dynamic Range (HDR) images with precise control over tonal adjustments. We'll explore the versatility of Look Up Tables (LUTs) for quickly applying pre-defined colour styles, and discover the creative potential of Gradient Mapping for adding unique colour palettes and tonal shifts.
Lesson 10
Unleash Your Creativity
- Colour Spaces
- Putting a Composite together
- Neural Filters
- Generative AI module
In our final lesson, we'll solidify your Photoshop mastery with advanced concepts and cutting-edge tools. We'll demystify colour spaces, ensuring accurate colour representation across devices. We'll then dive into the art of compositing, blending multiple images seamlessly to create captivating scenes. Additionally, we'll explore the exciting world of Neural Filters, harnessing the power of AI to enhance and transform your images with ease. Finally, we'll uncover the potential of the Generative AI module, using AI to generate creative content and push the boundaries of your artistic expression.
This Photoshop Class is designed to show you the key features of this fantastic software, explaining them with simple easy to understand terms!
The class is broken down into 10 weekly lessons and you can access the lesson recordings and additional class material 24/7 - you learn at a time that suits you and at your own pace with no deadlines!
No need to travel! Learn from the comfort of your own home, even in your PJ's if you like! You can view all class material on any internet-enabled device so you can also take your learning with you!
By the end of this 10 week class, you will have not only mastered the essential skills of Photoshop but also gained the confidence to push your creative boundaries and produce photographs that stand out from the crowd.
So, let your imagination soar and your images shine with the help of Photoshop for Photographers.
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Photoshop for Photographers - July 2025
Friday - 2.30pm until 4.30pm (UK)
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Frequently Asked Questions
Yes! You can read/watch the content on any device including laptops, smartphones and tablets.
You can join the Live lessons using a mobile device, although we find it is a better option to use a desktop or laptop computer.
You can watch the Live Lessons on any internet enabled device.
We use Zoom to host these live lessons.
If you have never used Zoom before, please consult the Zoom Help pages with advice on how to install and use Zoom – Joining A Zoom Meeting
No, you don't need to be a member of PhotoClub247 - this class is available to anyone wanting to improve their photo editing using Adobe Photoshop.
You have access to all the lessons, videos and recordings of the Live Lessons for 1 year from the end of the class.
Each lesson has a comments section where you can post your questions. Jonathan will respond to all questions personally.
You can also ask questions during the live lesson each week.
We use Zoom for the Live lessons.
You have the option to turn off your camera if you don't want to appear on screen to the other attendees.
Yes, the Live lessons will be recorded and published in the class content so you can catch up at anytime.
We are always happy to help! If you have any further questions about this class, please get in touch
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