PhotoArts California Photography & Photoshop Classes

PhotoArts California Photography & Photoshop Classes offers private classes in photography and Photoshop, including Introduction to Photography, Advanced Photography, Understanding the Camera, The Craft of Photography, The Art of Photography, and classes in Visualization and creating photographs as art. The program also offers New Beginner classes, Beginning Photoshop classes, Masters Photography programs, and Masters Photoshop classes.

• Schedule: All classes must be taken within one year of the purchase date; the first two classes should be held within seven to ten days, the four and six hour classes should be completed within 60 days of the first class, and the eight hour class should be completed within the year.
• Price: Introduction to Photography / Advanced Photography and/or Photoshop classes: Two hours: $300.00; Four hours: $550.00; Eight hours: $950.00. Understanding the Camera, the Craft of Photography, the Art of Photography and Photoshop classes: Two hours: $300.00; Four hours: $550.00; Six hours: $825.00; Eight hours: $950.00.

PhotoArts California offers private instruction that can be held in person, by Zoom streaming, or in a hybrid in person/Zoom format. The program states that it is guaranteed successful, and notes that private classes give the student the opportunity to ask their questions and have those questions answered thoroughly, with ongoing support available to every student regardless of where they are in the world. The program describes individual attention as the key to making the concept a reality, and notes that PhotoArts Marin has been recreated as PhotoArts California.

PhotoArts Marin was founded in 2007, and since then approximately 1,800 students have been taught in small groups or in private classes. In 2006, founder Glen Graves began working with the Santa Rosa School's ArtQuest classes for young photographer/artists, and early in 2018 he began teaching one-to-one Zoom classes in Photography and Photoshop. The stated mission is “DEDICATED TO TEACH THE CRAFT AND ART OF PHOTOGRAPHY,” and PhotoArts Marin's goals are to teach, to create and preserve the art of photography.

The program is led by Glen Graves, founder of PhotoArts Marin. Glen Graves attended the Brooks Institute in the mid 1970's and has worked as a commercial architectural/location photographer with clients including General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, US Air, New York Port Authority, Fairmont Hotels, Lear Crop, Delta Faucets, Formica Corp, Wood Mode Custom Cabinets, Wine Spectator, Architectural Digest, Robby Report, Cakebread Cellars, Merry Edwards Wines, Chalk Hill Estates and a variety of national and international clients.

Last updated March 28, 2026.