Fanshawe College — Digital Master Class

As Professor, Advanced Photoshop at Fanshawe College I taught third and fourth-year students who arrived able to use the tools but not to finish work at a professional standard. The course had to bridge that gap inside one term: not feature tours, but the compositing, retouching and decision-making discipline that commercial and editorial work actually demands, taught to a mixed-ability room using real project workflows from my own practice.

1. 01Developed a curriculum focused on real-world compositing scenarios rather than generic tool tutorials to bridge the gap between software knowledge and creative execution
2. 02Constructed multi-layered digital art examples to demonstrate non-destructive editing, advanced masking, and colour-matching principles
3. 03Instructed working design professionals on how to maintain consistent lighting, perspective, and scale when combining disparate photographic assets
4. 04Mentored students on file organization and layer management to ensure final assets remain fully editable in team production environments

• Advanced Photoshop curriculum built and delivered from live professional project workflows, not software feature tours
• Students finishing portfolio-standard composite work inside a single term
• Teaching materials drawn directly from client and self-directed projects including The Drawing Hope Project and Domestic Chaos
• A repeatable course framework the college could run across cohorts