photographers who want to improve their landscape photography, to pick up some new wedding photography techniques, or to learn how to shoot children are select for choice. Search on Google for a “photography workshop” and you’ll get more than 67 million results. Whatever kind of photography you want to practice, from snapping models to capturing pets and creating portraits you can always find someone willing to teach it.
Search, though, for a “Photoshop workshop” on Google and you’ll get fewer than 19 million results. That might still make for a pretty big choice but it’s less than a third of the educational content aimed at teaching photography skills even though the size of the demand should be the same. Regardless of what you want to shoot, just about every kind of image and every photography specialty will require a good understanding of image editing and post-production.
One reason that Photoshop classes are so much rarer than photography classes may be that while the need may be the same, the apparent demand for the classes is lower. Learning to take pictures is fun; learning to improve the white balance or remove red-eye not so much. Sitting at a keyboard and choosing tones from a piece of software is certainly a lot less romantic than directing models or even swishing chemicals under the red light of a darkroom.
But the skills are just as essential. Even if they don’t want to change their pictures too much once they have taken them, even the best photographers and the most experienced professionals have to spend some time adjusting their images before they submit them. And if they don’t, it’s only because they outsource the work to assistants who can charge a premium for their digital skills.
So I like to do this stuff If anyone like my project hire me :)