Elevate Your Creativity: Unleashing the Power of AI and Essential Tools in Adobe Photoshop

During this comprehensive, hands-on workshop, participants will learn and practice the skills needed to effectively harness the latest AI-powered tools in Adobe Photoshop, alongside key features essential to contemporary graphic design. This training is designed to enhance participants’ creative workflow, empowering them to work more efficiently and with greater innovation for their design process.

Attendees will gain practical experience in creating professional-quality designs and streamlining common tasks, including advanced image editing, seamless compositing, and the development of visually compelling mockups. Each segment of the workshop will feature guided exercises to reinforce these skills, ensuring participants leave with both a strong conceptual foundation and applicable, real-world expertise.

Please bring your laptop fully charged with Adobe Photoshop available for the workshop.

TOOLS & TOPICS COVERED:

• Photoshop 2025 features (incl. AI-powered tools)
  
• Generative Fill & Expand
  
• Text-to-Image with Adobe Firefly integration
  
• Non-destructive workflow techniques
  
• Layer management
• Color and tonality Adjustment Layers
• Mockup creation & Smart Objects

Nicolas Gutierrez:

Photoshop instructor at UC Berkeley Extension
Founder of Nico Gutierrez Photography 
Nicolas Gutierrez, M.F.A., is a commercial and art photographer based in San Francisco. He has a B.F.A. in Fine Arts from Los Andes University in Bogota, Colombia. He moved to San Francisco in 1999, where he pursued an M.F.A. in photography at the Academy of Art University and graduated top of his class. During the past 20 years, Nicolas has worked in different aspects of image production for companies such as AirBnB, Ubisoft, 500PX, XYZ and Gap and publications such SFMag, 180 Mag, SOMA, 7×7 and the Financial Times. He has also exhibited his artwork in galleries in the U.S. and abroad. Nicolas’ interest in digital image creation brought him to teach Photoshop I at UC Berkeley Extension. He is committed to creating a friendly, stimulating and unstressed educational environment, understanding the unique needs of every student to help them reach their full potential.