Photoshop
The discipline
Photoshop can do anything, which is precisely its danger. This workshop teaches the fraction of it photographers actually need — layers and masks as a way of thinking, frequency separation demystified and mostly declined, compositing with a conscience, and retouching that respects the subject. The syllabus is explicit about ethics: what editorial work permits, what it doesn't, and how to know which room you're in.
Built for photographers, not designers; every exercise starts from a photograph.
Departures
Field notes
Name your layers. Future-you is a stranger with your deadline.
Do it on a mask so you can be wrong gracefully.
Zoom out twice as often as you zoom in. Retouching is read at arm's length.
Questions, answered
How much Photoshop do I need to know already?
Basic navigation. If you can open a file and find the toolbar, the rest is the workshop's job.
Is this a retouching course?
One day of the three, taught with restraint as the headline skill. The other days are masking, compositing, and print preparation.
Where does AI fit in?
Generative tools are demonstrated, situated ethically, and clearly fenced: what's acceptable in commercial work, what disqualifies an image from documentary contexts. For the full treatment, see the AI Workflow workshop.
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