Nucly’s Photoshop Academy – The Top-Rated, Live Learning Experience for Creativity
Unlock the Full Power of Photoshop
Join the Ultimate Academy for Creators
Become a Photoshop pro with exclusive courses, live meetups, and a community designed to inspire and elevate your creativity.
Are you ready to take your Photoshop skills to the next level? The Nucly Photoshop Academy offers a comprehensive training solution that brings together creative techniques, expert guidance, and an inspiring community. Learn from a seasoned professional, master essential skills, and discover how to create captivating images that stand out.
Does any of this sound familiar?
You’re spending hours on edits that still don’t look right.
You watch endless tutorials and try different techniques, but something always seems off. Your images just aren’t matching the vision in your head.
You feel stuck at the same skill level, unsure of where to improve.
You’ve learned the basics, but you know there’s so much more Photoshop can do. Without clear guidance, though, it’s overwhelming—and your progress feels slow.
You lack the right tools and assets to bring your ideas to life.
You know what you want to create, but finding the right textures, overlays, and resources can be exhausting. You waste time searching for tools instead of creating.
What if I told you…
I had this exact problem!
I know exactly how frustrating it can be to feel stuck in Photoshop. I was there, too—spending hours trying to achieve a specific look, only to realize it still didn’t match my vision. I’d scroll through countless tutorials, but none of them addressed my exact questions. I knew Photoshop was a powerful tool, yet using it effectively felt just out of reach.
After years of trial and error, I finally developed a system that unlocked my potential and turned Photoshop into a creative extension of my ideas. That journey inspired me to create the Nucly Photoshop Academy. Here, I teach the techniques, shortcuts, and creative insights I wish I’d known from the beginning—methods that make Photoshop approachable and even fun.
If you’re ready to overcome these same frustrations and make your creativity shine, I’m here to guide you every step of the way.
INTRODUCING THE ALL ACCESS NUCLY
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!
Hey, I’m Rikard
I’m here to help you unlock your creative potential in Photoshop.
With over 20 years of experience in graphic design and a passion for teaching, I’ve helped thousands of creators transform their skills. From compositing to retouching to design, I know exactly what it takes to make your images stand out.
I built the Nucly Photoshop Academy as the resource I wish I’d had when I was learning—packed with practical techniques, exclusive assets, and a community of creators who inspire each other every day.
Let’s take your skills to the next level!
Want 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.
Inside the Photoshop Academy
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.
Photoshop Masterclass Modules
Module 1: An Introduction to Photoshop
Module 2: Creating a Light Portal
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
Module 5: Mood Cliffs
Module 6: Return of the Bee
Module 7: Female Potion
Module 8: Underwater
Module 9: Painting in Photoshop
Module 10: Swapping Heads & Faces
Module 11: Floating Jedi
Module 12: UFO Arrival
Module 13: Portrait of a Lady
Module 14: Gates of Eternity
Module 15 & 16: Caricatures
Module 17: Jasmine and Rajah
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.
Photoshop Basics for Photographers
Learn the essential tools used for 90% of all photography projects. The fastest photograph training for Photographers.
Value: $57.99
Creating Atmosphere Masterclass
Learn how to create atmosphere and drama in your images. Based on analysis of thousands of images, this is the one factor that will do the most to improve your composites.
Value: $57.99
Photoshop Color Grading Masterclass
Take full control of color in your images. The full workflow for color grading in Photoshop, covering EVERY color adjustment tool—how to use them and when.
Value: $57.99
Masterclass Projects
In the course of the masterclasses, you will create (or edit) each of these images—from simple color correction to full composites with titling. Hover over images to see what you’ll learn in each of the projects.
- All Masterclasses
- Color Grading Masterclass
- Creating Atmosphere
- Photoshop for Photographers
★★★★★
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!!
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.
Project Courses in the Nucly Photoshop Academy
LATEST RELEASE
Explore Photoshop’s Newest Tools
Unlock Your Creative Potential with the
Intrepid Ocean Explorer Course
Discover a streamlined approach to compositing in this step-by-step project course. Learn to blend, refine, and create stunning ocean scenes using Photoshop’s latest AI-powered features.
Leopard Child Composite Course
Learn the roadmap to compositing success in this follow-along project course for creative image making.
Value: $47
The Human Tourist Composite Course
Value: $47
An Ode to Rockwell Composite Course
Value: $47
The Great Abyss Composite Course
Learn polar coordinates, seamless tiling, atmospheric fog, color grading and more.
Value: $17
The Protector Composite Course
Value: $17
Maternal Monkey Composite Course
Value: $17
Girl on a Swing Composite Course
Value: $17
Flight of Icarus Composite Course
Value: $17
Forest Levitation Composite Course
Value: $17
Lady and the Fox Composite Course
Value: $17
Fairy Specimen Composite Course
Value: $17
Sea of Time Composite Course
Value: $17
Watercolor Painting in Photoshop Course
Value: $17
Dragon Tamer Composite Course
Value: $17
Snow White Composite Course
Value: $17
Lightning in a Bottle Composite Course
Value: $17
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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An Interactive Learning Community for Creativity, Design, Photography and Digital Art
Coaching & Live Demos
Live, online coaching with screen share means never getting stuck again.
Regular Zoom Meetups
Photoshop Challenges
Connections & Collaborations
Q&A, Forums & Discussions
Nucly Academy Leaderboard
A Growing 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.
OVERLAYS
FOREGROUND ELEMENTS
TEXTURES
PHOTOSHOP PRESETS
CUSTOM BRUSHES
Overlays
Layered Visual Effects
Use these overlays to add visual effects to your images, including sparks, fire, light rays, atmosphere and more!
564 overlays, all in 4k resultion and entirely royalty free. Captured in camera for realism.
Foreground Elements
Drag and Drop Drama
These easy-to-use overlays allow you to add depth, character, detail and drama to your images. Perfect for photographers, digital artists and graphic designers.
712 high resolution images with transparency. With various densities, sizes and even focus levels, these packs allow you to easily add depth to your images.
Textures
Increase Your Level of Detail
Real-world textures add a level of detail and realism to your images and composites and are an essential part of any creator’s toolkit. From grunge to wood and concrete to leather, these textures will increase the realism of your images. 290 textures, all in 4k resultion and entirely royalty free.
Presets & Tools
Elevate Your Workflow
Powerful tools and presets that will speed up your workflows in Photoshop, giving you near one-click solutions for visual effects, titling styles, color grades and much more!
More than 400 presets and tools in total.
Brush Presets
Power Up Your Photoshop
Custom-designed brush presets (with accompanying colored overlays) for photographers, digital artists and designers. From silhouettes to light flares, these are the brushes you’ll need to power up your Photoshop experience!
Join the Nucly Photoshop Academy
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All-Access Monthly
MONTHLY PAYMENTS- Nucly Photoshop Masterclass
- All Nucly Pro Courses
- All Nucly Asset packs
- On-going Tutorials
- Exclusive Community
- Monthly updates
- Online Meetups with Rikard
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ANNUAL PAYMENTS- Nucly Photoshop Masterclass
- All Nucly Pro Courses
- All Nucly Asset packs
- On-going Tutorials
- Exclusive Community
- Monthly updates
- Online Meetups with Rikard
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ONE-TIME PAYMENT- Nucly Photoshop Masterclass
- All Nucly Pro Courses
- All Nucly Asset packs
- On-going Tutorials
- Exclusive Community
- Monthly updates
- Online Meetups with Rikard
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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.
Frequently Asked Questions
What happens after I signup?
You will receive an account on Nucly.com and an email with login instructions. All courses and asset packs will be immediately available in your account library. In your library you will see the “Academy Community” product. From here, you will access the exclusive community to join our live meetups, challenges and forum.
I'm already a member of the Nucly Academy, do I need to purchase again?
No, you do not. If you have already signed up for the Academy, you do not need to register again. You can continue with monthly/annual payments. If you previously purchased the lifetime option, you will automatically gain access to all of the new Academy updates.
Is the Academy a subscription?
What courses are included in the Academy?
What assets are included in the Academy?
With the All-Access Nucly Academy, you get my full library of assets—including any future ones that I release.
- 9 overlay packs (sparks, fire, flames, embers, light rays, textured light and more).
- 5 foreground overlay packs (leaves and rose petals, with transparency and depth of field).
- 7 texture packs (grunge, concrete, wood, leathers and more).
- 6 preset packs, including my workflow actions, titling styles, color grading presets, gradient maps.
- 4 packs of backgrounds and skies.
- And finally, 12 packs of Photoshop brush presets with color overlays. These include my favorite pack—lens flares—and smoke & fog, dust, water, watercolor, clouds and more. And my newest sets of silhouette brushes.
What if I already own Nucly products?
What is your refund policy?
We have a 30-day satisfaction guarantee. If you are not satisfied with your purchase and can’t get it resolved with our team, email support@nucly.com and you will be refunded.
Can I cancel my subscription?
Yes, you can cancel your subscription at any time. If you are on the annual subscription, your access will continue through the period you’ve paid.
How is the community different from the Facebook group?
Is Photoshop still worth learning in the age of AI?
There’s a lot of controversy surrounding AI taking over artistic roles. The way I see it, the best approach to implementing AI is by giving artists AI-powered tools for image retouching and editing. This seems to be the approach Adobe is taking and in so far as it does, I don’t see Photoshop losing its market position in image editing software.
I do see stronger AI art generators replacing illustrators and even stock photography and image sites, but that’s a different conversation.
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