Ben Willmore is a Photoshop Hall of Famer who has taught over 100,000 people in live, in-person seminars and millions more online. His work has taken him all over the world, and his love of photography has driven him to explore all 50 states and 89 countries across all seven continents.

A senior engineer from NASA once called one of Ben’s seminars the best technical session he had ever attended, and in the same year, a longtime Photoshop user who had struggled for years said, “He takes the Boogie Man out of Photoshop!” That knack for connecting with people of all skill levels is something Ben is known for, whether he’s speaking to first-timers or advanced users looking to deepen their knowledge.

Ben is a featured speaker at conferences and events worldwide, has written over a hundred articles for digital imaging and photography publications, and his award-winning, best-selling book Adobe Photoshop Studio Techniques has been called “arguably one of the best Photoshop books ever written.”

In Ben’s latest book, Crafting the Landscape Photograph, he shows how to take your landscapes from good to truly inspiring. Even when you follow all the classic rules—shooting in great light, framing a clear subject, and keeping everything sharp—your images can still feel flat. The key difference is in post-processing. Using Lightroom Classic and Photoshop, Ben reveals how to guide the viewer’s eye and bring your photos to life.

The book covers capturing robust RAW files and enhancing them with adjustments, masking, layers, color, luminance, sharpness, composites, focus stacking, and more. Whether you’re looking to refine your workflow or elevate your images to a new level, this book provides the techniques and insights to transform your captures into photographs you’ll be proud to share.

When I teach, I start from the ground up—how a tool or concept really works at its core and how that connects to things you already understand in everyday life. Take Photoshop’s Curves adjustment, for example: it works exactly like a set of dimmer switches in your home. If you can intuitively adjust them to dial in the lighting across your home, you already understand Curves at a fundamental level. I keep returning to those types of familiar ideas as we go deeper, so when we start using the tool to adjust an image, everything feels natural and predictable instead of confusing or intimidating.

I apply this same approach to Lightroom, photography, and everything else I teach. Camera settings, composition, lighting, or editing techniques—all of it begins with the first principles that are essential for true understanding. Once you have that foundation, adding more advanced techniques becomes easy. Then you can start thinking for yourself and use what you’ve learned to develop your own techniques that go beyond what we practiced together. You leave with that Aha! I finally GET it! feeling—where everything clicks, whether you’re in Photoshop, Lightroom, or out in the field with your camera.

If you’re tired of cookie-cutter tutorials, blindly following step-by-step instructions, or endless online videos that never quite click, I welcome you to try my approach. I'll focus on equipping you with the skills you need to elevate your work and unlock the full potential of your photography.

That’s what I love about teaching—seeing someone go from frustrated to excited, from unsure to confident, and knowing they now truly understand the tools and techniques and can actually create the images they’ve always wanted to make. If that’s what you’re looking for, I’d love to be your guide.