A picture is worth a thousand words, making photographs and stick-figure sketches the easiest solutions to looming dissertation deadlines. Learn to manipulate visual-communication strategies with today’s Groupon to TWI Workshops. Choose between the following options:

• For $49, you get a four-hour group beginners’ Photoshop workshop (a $159.99 value).
• For $99, you get a four-hour private beginners’ Photoshop workshop (a $269.99 value).</p>

All images and materials are provided, but students can bring their own laptop if they already have Photoshop 7.0 or later installed. Classes commence in January 2012 and run in the evenings at varying times depending on students’ schedules.

The interactive and informative beginners’ Photoshop workshop class at TWI Workshops places nascent photo doctors under the expert guidance of experienced photographer Thomas Wright. Each group class is capped at four students to ensure one-on-one attention, and private classes enable individual learning. Four-hour sessions kick off with a one-hour introduction to essential Photoshop appliances, such as the menu bar and the toolbox, imbuing pupils with the know-how to touch up blemishes, fix photos, and edit out blinking Loch Nesses. Hour two furnishes workshoppers with an overview of the main tools that will be used throughout the rest of class and expounds on the layering process. Participants stretch their legs during a 10-minute break, after which they return to tinker with basic colour correction techniques and air questions and concerns during an informative Q&A period. The class’s final quarter focuses on conducting raw colour corrections with newly minted savvy, deftly rendering skies bluer, grass greener, and invisible friends invisibler.