Photoshop for Photographers

Transform Your Images from Good to Extraordinary

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 workshop 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.
Photoshop for Photographers Online Course
Photo by Jonathan Vaines
Online Photoshop course for photographers
Photo by Jonathan Vaines

What You'll Learn

  • Essential Photoshop Foundations: Camera RAW, 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.
  • And Much More: Smart objects, blend modes, dodging and burning and using adjustment layers.

Meet the Instructor - Jonathan Vaines

We are delighted to welcome Jonathan Vaines to the Photoclub247 team as our resident Photoshop expert.

Jonathan 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.

Jonathan Vaines Photoshop Course
Jonathan Vaines

Photoshop for Photographers

This workshop features 6 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 workshop material, will be available for 1 year so you can follow up in your own time. Here is the outline agenda for the 6 week workshop...

Lesson 1

Workspace & Settings

  • Adobe Camera RAW
  • File Management
  • Preparing images for Photoshop
  • Workspace
  • Photoshop Settings

In this lesson we cover essential topics like file management, ensuring your images are optimised for Photoshop. You'll learn about Adobe Camera RAW, a powerful tool for processing raw image files. We'll customize your workspace to enhance your workflow and explore various Photoshop settings to tailor the software to your preferences.

Lesson 2

Non-destructive Working

  • Workflow overview
  • Introduction to masks
  • Non-destructive working
  • Tools and toolbars
  • The concept of layers
  • Introduction to brushes
  • Transforming 
  • Content Aware Cropping

This lesson will cover essential concepts such as non-destructive editing, toolbars, layers, masks, brushes, and transformation tools. It will also delve into advanced techniques like Content Aware Crop.

Lesson 3

Retouching

  • Spot heal
  • Patch
  • Clone tool
  • Remove tool

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.

Lesson 4

Content Aware Tools

  • Content Aware Scale
  • Content Aware Move
  • Gradient Tool

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 5

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 6

Blend Modes

  • Smart Objects
  • Introduction to Blend modes
  • Adjustments layers
  • Levels & Curves
  • Dodge & Burn
  • Colour changes

In this lesson we explore transformative power of smart objects, blend modes, adjustment layers, and colour correction techniques

Everything is Online - No Travel Required

The workshop is based online using Zoom so no need to travel - if you can't make the broadcast, everything is recorded so you can catch up and learn at your own pace and fit the workshop around your work/family commitments.

You can revisit the lessons and additional workshop material to refresh your knowledge for up to a year!

This Photoshop Workshop is designed to show you the key features of this fantastic software, explaining them with simple easy to understand terms!

The workshop is broken down into 6 weekly lessons and you can access the lesson recordings and additional workshop 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 workshop material on any internet-enabled device so you can also take your learning with you!

By the end of this 6 week workshop, 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.

Reviews from Previous Students

Sarah

I have just signed off from the last of this series of Photoshop for Photographers workshops, led by Jonathan Vaines.  I have learnt so much about this amazingly powerful software and will be spending a lot of time, re-watching the workshops, alongside the demo images, plus my own and trying out the fabulous techniques we have been shown.  
 
Jonathan is so knowledgable and has an incredibly calm and clear way of describing how to use the software to best effect.  Two hours for each session was just right, meaning we could get into each particular topic in detail without being completely flooded with information.  
 
I have signed up for the advanced course and am hugely looking forward to it!  

David

I booked a place on this course thinking that I could use Photoshop fairly well. Week 1 changed my belief!  I learnt how to set up and make of many features in Adobe Camera Raw, e.g. the crop and straighten tool.

Moving on I learnt ways to make a selection in Photoshop and easier than the methods I knew. Then we were shown how to use Levels Adjustment Layers and how much could be done with them, tips and tricks that were hidden in plain sight. In the last week we explored Curves, what a tool!

Throughout the entirety of the course Jonathan displayed a professional but extremely friendly manner, no question went unanswered this was by far the best photo editing course I have ever taken and was great value for money.

If you are even thinking about a photo editing course I would recommend you stop thinking and get this course booked.

5* course and then some!

Declan

I have learnt so much from this course and it has really opened my eyes to what Photoshop can do.

I really recommend it to anyone wishing to get to know Photoshop.

Iain

 I have thoroughly enjoyed this course and will be signing up for Advanced Photoshop Techniques course.

It is going to take me some time to get my head round most of it but winter time is a good time to practice as I have learned so much and still a lot to take in.

I have studied videos on photoshop before but Jonathan makes it very interesting and intuitive and really takes his time to explain

I will definitely recommend this course to friends!

Genista

I have thoroughly enjoyed the Photoshop for Photographers workshops.  The 6 weeks have flown by.  Jonathon is such a great tutor, he has imparted so much information and been so generous with all his bonus videos and hints and tips.

The pace of each workshop is just right so that Jonathon has plenty of time to show technique in practice and so you can actually see what he is doing.  

Being able to email Jonathon during the course with questions that crop up as you tackle the technique that Jonathon has shown during the workshop has been invaluable!

Susan

Wow!!!

We are at the end of our final week of Photoshop training with Jonathan Vaines, not sure where the time has gone.

I have attended a few PS classes and I can honestly say I have thoroughly enjoyed learning each week.

Jonathan explains every detail which is so easily understandable.

Personally, I don’t find it easy sitting or making the time to practice what I have just learnt but I have been so inspired that I try every day to go over the session and work on the images Jonathan has provided.

Looking forward to the next Advance Photoshop Techniques course!

Paul

I have previously tried to get to grips with Photoshop through online courses, webinars or reading reading articles. After a few days I might do some successful editing, then hit a problem, which I am not sure how to resolve. By the time I go back to have a look a few days later any learning has gone to the back of my mind. This course has at last been the breakthrough.

Jonathan starts from first principles, explaining what is happening and how use the tools. He then goes on to show you some practical applications. Spreading the course over several week you have the opportunity to gradually build up your understanding. For me the main benefit is that when something does not happen as I think it should, I can usually work out what it is wrong. I do this because I understand what is happening in Photoshop.

I am now very much enjoying using Photoshop and am getting some much improved results.

If you want to understand Photoshop this is a highly recommended course.

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Online Lessons

The workshop is broken down into 6 separate lessons hosted live on Zoom

For Photographers

Tailored for Photographers - Focuses on the tools and techniques photographers use most

Photoshop for Photographers - January 2025

Friday Evenings - 7pm until 9pm (uk)
31st January   |   7th February   |   14th February   |   21st February   |   7th March   |   21st March

£149.00

£149.00 GBP | €180.05 EUR* | $189.05 USD*

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£275.00

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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 - this workshop 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 workshop.

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 course content so you can catch up at anytime.

We are always happy to help! If you have any further questions about this workshop, please get in touch

Photographers Photoshop Course
Photo by Jonathan Vaines
Photoshop course for Photographers
Photo by Jonathan Vaines

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