Online Photoshop Classes - Beginners & Advanced

Photoshop is a spectacular creative instrument, but only if you know how to use it. In this class you will learn to customize the interface, master the most important tools, explore basic editing concepts and critical techniques including making selections, creating layers and layer masks, image compositing, simple retouching, color controls, and how to do most everything in the powerful ACR workspace. Follow along using the provided resource files, then expand your horizons by experimenting with your own materials. There is no limit to what you can build in Photoshop, starting with a strong foundation. Most any version of Photoshop will suffice, but the current subscription based edition clearly offers the greatest range of options and potential.

Get creative with Photoshop! Photoshop is far more than a utility for “fixing” pictures. It is an artistic medium that is the foundation for the genre known as Digital Art. This class explores techniques and procedures offering powerful tools for individual expression. By building projects step by step in class, students gain knowledge, skills and inspiration applicable to their own work. Each session will be recorded and the video made available for continuing reference. This is not a beginner class. A basic understanding of selections, layers, layer masks, brushes and blend modes is required.

* Classes are confirmed one week prior to the start date. In order to help us confirm classes, please register as early as possible
* Students should have a current subscription to the Adobe subscription plan that provides and maintains up to date versions of Photoshop, Lightroom and Bridge.
* Please familiarize yourself with the Zoom platform – specifically the “share screen” function so Alan can see your screen when necessary. A tutorial can be found here

Alan Perlman has been a working professional photographer for more than four decades, specializing in corporate communications, executive and business portraiture and special events of virtually every description. His client list includes such well-known names as American Express, The NASDAQ Stock Market, Greyhound, Costco, The Big Apple Circus, etc. His work has appeared in numerous publications around the world. He has been teaching and speaking about digital photography in a variety of venues since 2006 and was named an Outstanding Teacher-of-the-Year by the Suffolk Association for Continuing Community Education; more recently, traveling the world (when possible) to learn new things and make photographs.

Alan’s work can be viewed on his website Click here