© Sue Anne Hodges
Once you've learned the basics of Photoshop, the creative possibilities become endless. This workshop is designed to help you explore your interests with the goal of discovering and developing your personal vision. Whether you're still searching for your own style or already working toward a portfolio, the class exercises and group feedback will support you in taking your work to the next level.
By applying your Photoshop skills to both structured assignments and your own project, you'll gain technical confidence and deepen your creative approach. Class time will include problem-solving demonstrations, targeted skill-building exercises, and examples from a range of Photoshop artists for inspiration.
During the first three weeks, you'll receive conceptual assignments to interpret in your own style. The following three weeks focus on a strategic workflow designed to help you begin a cohesive series quickly. In the final two weeks, we'll concentrate on refining your work and developing continuity within your project. Each week includes homework and individualized feedback.
Prerequisite: Photoshop 1 or equivalent experience using basic tools, Layers, and Layer Masks.
Class Details
We're excited to let you know that, due to high interest, we have decided to open this Wednesday section! This second section will run from January 7 - February 25, just like the first.
Dates: Eight sessions on Wednesdays: January 7, 14, 21, 28, February 4, 11, 18, and 25, 2026
Time: 1:00 - 4:00 PM EST
Format: Online, over Zoom
Participants: Limited to 10
Course Fee: $625 (members) / $675 (non-members)Level: Open to all levels, basic Photoshop experience required
The non-member price includes a one-year membership to the Griffin Museum. Learn more about all the benefits here: https://griffinmuseum.org/membership-account/membership-levels/
About the Instructor
Sue Anne Hodges is a photographer and educator. Since 1992, Sue Anne has been exploring and using digital cameras and digital imaging technology. She studied this technology at the Center for Creative Imaging in Camden, Maine. Digital images from her early experiments have been included in Kodak's publication, International Photography, and one of the first exhibits of digital imaging --L'Épreuve Numérique-- at the Centre National de la Photographie, Palais de Tokyo, Paris.
Sue Anne was the Director of Digital Imaging at New England School of Photography (NESOP). Her career began as an advertising photographer, helping to build and supervise an in-house studio for Lechmere, a retail chain store. This led her to teaching studio lighting at NESOP where in 1995 she helped them establish the digital imaging department and taught for the past 25 years. In 2011, 2012 and 2018 Sue Anne was honored to be one of 20 educators in the country to be invited by Adobe to attend the Adobe Educators Summit. She remains a specialist in Adobe Photoshop, Lightroom. and Digital Printing.
Her more recent photography has taken her out of the studio and includes a variety of projects including work for The Cultural Landscape Foundation, Down East Magazine, and Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce. Sue Anne's personal work has been used on book covers, widely exhibited, and for 15 years she was represented by Redfield Artisans Gallery in Northeast Harbor, Maine. She splits her time between Mount Desert Island, Maine and West Newbury, Massachusetts.