edit with me ᯓ★ 1-on-1 session

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there's a gap between knowing how to use Photoshop and knowing how to think in it.

you can execute—you know your way around layers, you've got adjustments figured out, you've watched enough tutorials to get results. but when you sit down with your own images, something's still off. the edit doesn't feel like yours. it feels like a version of something you saw somewhere else.

that gap isn't technique. it's intuition—the part that decides why grain here and not there, why this approach to colour and not that one, what you're actually trying to pull out of an image before you touch a single slider.

that's what this session is.

you send me your raw or PSD files. i open them on a Google Meet call and edit live — talking through every decision as i go. why i add grain before the adjustment layers, not after. why textures sit at the top of the stack and what changes when they don't. how i build up an edit in small increments inside the adjustment layers rather than pushing things loud. a lot of what i've learned is actually about restraint — knowing when the image is done, when adding more starts working against it. i used to pile on textures and crank everything up. now the things i care about most are the smallest ones.

it's not a one-way thing — you can ask questions as we go, and i'll answer them. after the session, i send you the recording so you can go back through it at your own pace. and if something comes up later, you can email me — i always reply.

if you want, i'll open some of my own PSDs too — finished work, broken down layer by layer.

"you can't understand everything through pure theory — the best way to understand the process was to see it in action in your own work." — Patricija

this works best if you already have a foundation in Photoshop. i'm not going to explain what selective colour does — i'm going to show you how i use it, and why, in that specific image. the value is in the logic behind the choices, not the steps themselves.

come with your files and something specific you're curious about — a project you're unsure of, an edit that isn't clicking, a look you keep chasing but can't land. the more specific, the better the session.

"the session completely met my expectations. it was particularly helpful to see the files from your work." — Nina