Photographers • Designers • Artists
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The Academy is a fun, easy, collaborative and future-proof way to create beautiful and resonating images.
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What if Photoshop was actually fun again?
- Stop feeling confused & overwhelmed in Photoshop
- Get creative with real results, really easy
- Future-proof yourself versus the AI insanity to come
- Find the support and friendship of creatives like you that deep down you’re craving
- Use my 20+ years of Photoshop experience via hands-on, simple courses
- Finally ... ENJOY creating with Photoshop! Less stress, more fun!
INTRODUCING THE ALL ACCESS
Photoshop Academy
ALL-ACCESS to our online courses with regular updates, downloadable assets, presets and tools, Q&As, discussions, challenges, live meetups, and a true community for any Photoshop creator!
Join the Nucly AcademyWant To Create Beautiful Images that Inspire People?
If you want to create beautiful images that inspire people, without having to spend years learning Photoshop, the Nucly Academy is for you
Anyone can create beautiful digital art.
It doesn't require spending years trying to learn every feature that exists in Photoshop. And even if you aren’t a professional designer, you can create beautiful images that inspire people.
There are simple design tricks even beginners can use to create amazing images and digital art with Photoshop.
Do you know that feeling when you scroll through your favorite creator’s Instagram feed and see all those inspiring images?
You can create beautiful images and inspiring digital art like this yourself, and make other people feel this way as well, even if you are a beginner.
The Nucly Academy is designed to give you the skills to create beautiful images and digital art, using a few beginner-friendly strategies that anyone can implement, even if you’re not a professional designer.
The Creative Learning Method
Are you an aspiring designer, photographer, or artist eager to master Photoshop and unleash your creative potential?
Get ready to challenge the conventional wisdom surrounding Photoshop learning methods and embark on a creative journey that will see you getting results in days or weeks rather than months and years.
The Creative Photoshop Learning Method is my revolutionary approach that prioritizes creativity over technicalities and teaches you CREATIVE RECIPES instead of drilling down on endless tools and settings.
Get creative results FAST and build on those wins to expand both your Photoshop and creative skill sets at the same time.
This method focuses on the 20% of Photoshop that will get you 90% of your results. And all of it is underpinned with the ARTISTIC FUNDAMENTALS that so many other training solutions skip over or don't teach at all.
Learning the Photoshop blending modes is meaningless UNLESS you also know how to use those blending modes to CREATE BETTER IMAGES.
At the heart of the Creative Photoshop Learning Method is the belief that creativity is a muscle that can be cultivated and which is made stronger by using it. By focusing on creative techniques and design fundamentals, you'll discover that you can produce stunning digital art without the need to become a Photoshop wizard.
Say goodbye to the frustration of feeling overwhelmed by complex software and hello to a newfound sense of artistic freedom and creative inspiration.
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I have 15 years retouching experience & have learnt more in the past week from his courses than in those 15 years!– SC
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Rikard's tutorials will open up possibilities in your work that you have only dreamed of!– AC
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The projects are fun, creative, engaging, and the learning happens without you even noticing.– AJ
Your Creative PHD
The Nucly Photoshop Masterclass
Creating the image of your dreams doesn't have to be a challenging task. These project lessons are designed using the Creative Learning Method allowing you to rapidly build your creative and Photoshop skill set to create ANY kind of image you have in mind.
Throughout the process, you'll not only learn Photoshop, but also learn composition, color theory, contrast, shapes, typography and much more.
With this Masterclass, you'll create 15+ stunning images, with each one building skills from the previous one. Progress from being a novice to a master in the art of retouching, compositing, and manipulation.
Take a sneak peak inside...
Module 1:
An Introduction to Photoshop
Get ready to master the Photoshop workspace! We'll show you where to find all the tools, familiarize you with the menus, and introduce you to the almighty layers stack. Trust us, this is the foundation you need to build your Photoshop empire.
Module 2:
Creating a Light Portal
Ready to dive into some Photoshop action? In this section, we'll tackle our first composite project and cover all sorts of useful skills, like cropping, object selection, masks, the gradient editor, brushes, and layer styles. And that's just the tip of the iceberg!
Module 3:
Fashion Bee
Let's dive into our second composite project! In this lesson, we'll cover some advanced techniques for spot and dust removal, making realistic image blends, creating shadows, and using Camera RAW for post-processing.
Module 4:
Enlightened Animal
Let's dive into some photo manipulation fun! We'll combine the head of a meerkat with the body of a person and cover all sorts of cool techniques like overlays and grunge, the liquify tool, and color curves. Get ready to get creative!
Module 5:
Mood Cliffs
Let's dive into the world of brushes in Photoshop! We'll create our own brushes, load custom brushes, and use them to add details to our composite. We'll also learn how to color grade with a curves adjustment layer and the Export As workflow. Get ready to brush up on your skills!
Module 6:
Return of the Bee
In this lesson, we'll cover focus stacking, auto-blending layers, photomerge, and other handy tools for working with multiple images at the same time. We'll focus stack the bee, composite it into a new background, and use custom brushes to make it all look seamless. By the end, you'll be a pro at combining multiple images into one cohesive masterpiece.
Module 7:
Female Potion
In this lesson, we'll cover skin retouching, compositing workflows, putting objects behind glass, and creating image-based glows. We'll also learn how to age a photo with overlays and color. Get ready to up your retouching and compositing skills!
Module 8:
Underwater
It's time to dive into the deep end of compositing workflow! In this lesson, we'll navigate the process from start to finish, experimenting with different approaches to create the desired effect and testing the waters to see which works best. By the end of it, you'll be a compositing pro who can swim with the best of them!
Module 9:
Painting in Photoshop
It's time to turn your photos into works of art with Photoshop! In this group of projects, we'll explore the various methods and filters for achieving this effect, including the filter gallery, the oil paint filter, the mix brush, the art history brush, and more. By the end of it, you'll be able to paint with the masters!
Module 10:
Swapping Heads & Faces
In these two projects, we'll look at ways of replacing heads in Photoshop. The first will cover puppet warp, color and style matching. The other will show how to use Auto-Blend in Photoshop to do a quick face replacement. By the end of it, you'll be a head replacement pro!
Module 11:
Floating Jedi
In this project, we'll explore fantasy compositing, including how to create plasma, making someone float, adding depth and much more. We'll also explore Actions—how you can automate a set of steps in Photoshop to a single click.
Module 12:
UFO Arrival
Get ready for a close encounter of the Photoshop kind! In this project, you'll learn about the Vanishing Point effect and dive into typography, from loading fonts to creating your own Layer Style presets for titling. We'll also explore patterns in Photoshop and how to use them. It’s time to beam up your skills to the next level.
Module 13:
Portrait of a Lady
Get ready to strut your stuff with some high-end skin retouching skills! In this project, we'll cover everything you need to know about skin smoothing neural filters, high pass filters, frequency separation, and makeup transfer. We'll also delve into the different methods and use cases for each, so you understand when to use what. Become an icon of Photoshop skin retouching.
Module 14:
Gates of Eternity
Open the door to advanced image editing skills with this project! We'll replace in-image text, use flare overlays, master the patch tool, create atmospheric depth, and much more. We'll also learn how to color grade using gradient maps, giving your images a polished and professional finish. But that's just the beginning - we'll also delve into a variety of other techniques and strategies that will help you unlock your full potential and create truly breathtaking images.
Module 15 & 16:
Caricatures
In these two projects, we'll delve into the depths of the liquify filter and explore all the tools available for distorting faces. We'll also learn how to recreate hair, add scares, blood, teeth, and other elements using the tools in Photoshop. By the end of it, you'll be a Shakespearean master of image manipulation, capable of creating some truly amusing (or horrifying) images that will make your friends and family say, 'To Photoshop or not to Photoshop, that is the question!'
Module 17:
Jasmine and Rajah
Get ready to rub the lamp and unleash the power of Photoshop in our final project! We'll use all the tools we've learned to create a composite with three different subjects, a newly created background, and foreground elements. We'll use Camera RAW, advanced masking, overlays, brushes, and much more. We'll also delve into the blur gallery and using channels to make selections. By the end of it, you'll be a genie of Photoshop, capable of granting wishes of stunning composites with the wave of a mouse.
Creative Masterclasses
Each masterclass here is designed to build an essential creative and Photoshop skill set that will build on the fundamentals of the primary masterclass.
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“Brilliant! The courses are laid out brilliantly. Easy to navigate through and can jump back into for a quick refresher, at any stage of his videos. The quality of the end products gets you fired up to do another project. I would highly recommend him… Thank you!!”
— Craig B (TrustPilot)
Project Courses – Creative Recipes
Our approach to creative learning is akin to learning how to cook. You won't improve your food by studying the user manual to your oven or learning all the different types of knives and their names. Instead, the BEST WAY to learn is through RECIPES. And these courses are your CREATIVE RECIPES. You can do these in any order and regardless of your existing skills. Within one or two hours, you will have created an AWESOME image and have the skills to create similar images of your own using the same toolset.
The Live Learning Hub
Exclusive Nucly Photoshop Community
The Nucly Academy gives you membership to our exclusive Nucly Photoshop community with twice-a-month live online classes, Q&A sessions and design reviews. Here's your chance to pick my brain—and connect with fellow artists!
These sessions are the pulse of our Photoshop journey together, designed to deepen your understanding of both Photoshop and design fundamentals. These LIVE online meetups (think Zoom calls) allow us to explore every aspect of Photoshop TOGETHER. You can ask questions and see demonstrations in REAL-TIME.
Here is your opportunity to get questions answered, refresh your memory on key concepts from our online classes, get direct feedback on your art, photos or designs and on your progress. These sessions are your passport to continuous growth.
But it's not just about me talking at you—it's about us coming together as a community of passionate learners. Within the exclusive community you can post and get feedback on your work, ask questions of other members or join our monthly Photoshop challenges.
IMPORTANT: Our meetups are held on Friday at 11am PST. As we have members from all over the world, we realize not everyone can join at that time. For this reason, EVERY meetup is recorded in HD and added to your Nucly library. You can watch these anytime you want and post questions you didn't get to ask to get answers from Rikard.
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Coaching & Live Demos
Live, online coaching with screen share means never getting stuck again.
Regular Zoom Meetups
Join our regular zoom meetings and connect with other members.
Photoshop Challenges
Enter our challenges to push your creative boundaries and skills.
Connections & Collaborations
Promote yourself to other members. Make connections. Flourish.
Q&A, Forums & Discussions
Get your questions answered, discuss features, share your work.
Nucly Academy Leaderboard
We've got a leaderboard! Earn points by connecting and engaging.
My Library of Tools
Curated and built over the last 20 years as a designer and creative director, this is my collection tools to enhance your images
Imagine you could…
- Instantly give your images DEPTH using a foreground element overlay
- Add realistic and organic DETAIL to your images with high quality Photoshop brushes
- Create images that have TEXTURE using one of our signature texture overlays
- Add cinematic LIGHTING to your images with flares, atmospheric lights and other overlays
- Give your images and landscapes DRAMATIC skies using our sky replacement packs
- Enhance your composites and graphics with MOVIE TITLING styles designed from blockbusters... with one click
- Dramatically increase your EFFICIENCY with Nucly's Photoshop workflow actions
- Give your images an instant COLOR GRADE with our Cinematic Adjustment Presets
All of these will be instantly available to you with our collection of textures, overlays, presets, brushes and tools—more than 3,000 individual elements, all of them completely ROYALTY FREE for use in personal or commercial products.
And for those of you entering photography and image competitions, not a single one of these was created using AI generators of any kinds.
Overlay
Images
Foreground Elements
Texture
Overlays
Presets
& Tools
Brush
Presets
Overlays
Drag-and-drop solution for texture, detail and depth. Transform your images with these high-resolution overlays.
Foreground Elements
Create depth, enhance your subjects, and allow your viewers to enter your image with these foreground elements.
Textures
Create character, add contrast offsetting your subject, and allow your viewers to view your composite with new eyes.
Presets & Tools
Elevate your workflow and save countless hours with these versatile Photoshop Power Tools!
Photoshop Brushes
Custom designed brush presets (with accompanying overlays) for photographers, digital artists, and designers.
SPECIAL ACADEMY BONUS
Design Fundamental eBooks
Creating awe-inspiring photos and images has far more to do with design and art fundamentals than it does with Photoshop. And these ebooks give you real-world example of design basics.
Color Harmony
Why Hulk Wears Purple Pants
Learn the different types of color harmony—from analogous, triadic and complementary, to split complementary and more. Includes MANY examples so that you can see the harmonies and how they play out in actual designs.
Mood Lines
Setting the Tone of Your Design
Did you know there are 48 different mood lines and each one conveys a different mood or feeling in your photograph, design or piece of art? In this ebook, you'll learn all of them AND see them in practice with real-world examples.
Color Associations
The Psychology of Color
Understanding the psychology of color allows you to choose the right color for your projects and designs. This guide includes all the common colors and what they convey, their symbolism and associations.
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