Our Classroom
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During your class, we hope you'll appreciate the bright, sharp 20-inch LCD monitors; your choice of Windows or Mac OS at every seat; comfortable chairs; clear lines of sight to the projection screen; and the custom-made tables by craftsman Charles Hetrick. You deserve a comfortable learning environment.
A fabulous teacher! A wealth of knowledge explained so well that it gives even the most inexperienced of us the feeling of some expertise by the end of the class! He spoke to us and worked with us, as opposed to speaking at us and directing us!
- InDesign Essentials Student
Our Refined Curriculum
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The quality of your education is paramount. We solicit your feedback and value every word. We'd be honored to be your hosts for any of our training classes or workshops.
We'd like to serve you
We've helped major corporations like Boeing, Adobe Systems, Microsoft, The Seattle Times, REI, Macy's and Nordstrom; hundreds of professional and amateur photographers, major graphic design firms and studios of one; all-around creative companies; educational institutions like the University of Washington, community colleges and school districts throughout Washington and Oregon; and individual billionaires, millionaires, and starving artists.
Very much Enjoyed Steve and Carla—excellent hosts, excellent instruction. Thank you!
- Photoshop Essentials student
Your Hosts
Carla Fraga and Steve Laskevitch, Luminous Works' founders, have been teaching photography and design for many years as well as producing fine art photography and graphic design work. Every day, we use the products and technologies we teach.
Steve Laskevitch (Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop, Illustrator, Lightroom, and InDesign), Luminous Works' lead instructor, started teaching over 20 years ago. With a background in education, physics, and photography, he has spent most of the last decade teaching and doing desktop publishing. In 2003, Steve left Ivey Seright (he was their senior instructor) and founded the company that was to become Luminous Works, llc. Steve/Luminous Works has built production workflows for many companies and regularly helps Adobe Systems prepare Certified Expert exams. For five and a half years, Steve was the proud chapter representative for the Seattle InDesign User Group. He has taught in the Design Department of Cornish College of the Arts where he was awarded the Excellence in Teaching Award, Seattle Central Community College, and the University of Washington Extension.
Carla Fraga (Adobe Certified Instructor in Photoshop), an educator for over a dozen years in analog and digital media, has taught at several schools in the area, including the photography certificate program at the University of Washington Extension, and Seattle University. For eight years she assisted and curated over sixty photography exhibits at the FotoCircle Gallery in Seattle. Her BA in English from the University of Texas at Austin serves her endeavors as a writer of fiction and children's stories, and she received her MFA in Photography from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2007. Carla serves on the advisory board for the Advanced Digital Imaging program at the University of Washington Extension.