"Students are individuals with unique learning styles and artistic talent. The roadblocks to mastering such a difficult application as Photoshop often causes people to doubt their capacity to produce the best work, when oftentimes they're not all that far from grasping the keystone bits of information that can propel them to the next level. It's especially daunting when the student feels so lost because more...
"Students are individuals with unique learning styles and artistic talent. The roadblocks to mastering such a difficult application as Photoshop often causes people to doubt their capacity to produce the best work, when oftentimes they're not all that far from grasping the keystone bits of information that can propel them to the next level. It's especially daunting when the student feels so lost because there's simply so much to know that they don't know where to even begin.
In addition to classroom experience teaching design to students and professionals, I've accumulated more than 35 years of hand-on experience in the design and printing trades, as well as authored and contributed to many major graphic design "how-to" books and magazines. With this level of Photoshop mastery it is relatively easy to assess those places where students are stumbling and provide them with a customized path towards their own mastery.
Atlanta residents have seen my design work, and art and design professionals learned my work techniques and viewed examples of my work in the galleries of PeachPit Press' "WOW!" Series, Photoshop Magazine. With a history of teaching beginning, intermediate and even professionals, I can quickly evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of a student and help them towards mastery of this difficult program.
Don't be afraid of Photoshop, nor fear that you'll be thought somehow deficient just because there are so many things to know about Photoshop. I'd love to help you become someone who runs Photoshop in circles instead of someone who feels like Photoshop's running loops around them!" less...