Ambassadors and trainers

Alessandro Bernardi is a professional hi-end retoucher, colorist and trainer and is the founder of PS School project that has managed the Italian classes of some of the Photoshop's biggest experts such as Dan Margulis and Bert Monroy.
With more than 25 years of experience in hi-end retouching and color grading, he has worked for clients like Barilla, Gucci, Prada, Luxottica, Campari, Unilever, Pirelli, Nivea, Canali, Zurich Insurance and many others.
He is a Color Grading professor at Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia, Europe's oldest cinematography school, and at the University of Milan and other Italian universities and schools.
He also teaches Color Correction and Color Grading at the Color Design and Technology Master at the Politecnico University of Milan.
As a trainer and a consultant he has worked with companies like Sony, Arri, Epson, Eizo, X-Rite.
Fascinated by color in visual arts and passionate about teaching, his wide-open and enthusiastic approach can give his students a know-how that can be used in any field, from still image to video.

Francesco Ricci is a professional photographer, retoucher, and photography and post-production instructor based in Bari.
He works in the advertising industry, specializing in portraiture, still-life, and architectural photography. He has collaborated with various companies and professionals, including musicians, actors, chefs, architects, oenologists, and communication agencies.
He has dedicated many years to his professional development, specializing in studio photography and photographic post-production.
Since 2017, he has been teaching photographic post-production and portrait photography at the "Spaziotempo" school of photography and filmmaking.
In 2019, he earned the Adobe Certified Expert certification in Photoshop CC.
Since 2023, he has been collaborating with "IDA Fotografia" by Nausicaa Giulia Bianchi in the field of advanced color correction.

Born in Rovereto in 1965. He completed his classical high school education and graduated in Physics. He worked in the IT field and then in music production. Around the 2000s, he began studying the theory of digital color. He restores audiovisual materials, dealing with color-related issues. In 2009 and 2011, he attended the basic and advanced ACT (Applied Color Theory) courses with Dan Margulis. He started a teaching and outreach activity that has lasted for twelve years.

Since 2011, he has taught at schools such as the Istituto Design Palladio in Verona, IUSVE in Venice, and conducted private courses and workshops in Italy and Switzerland. He has produced over fifty hours of video courses for Teacher-in-a-Box, written for magazines like Fotografia Reflex, Italia Publishers, Digital Camera, Nikon Photography, and Fotografare. In 2021, he curated the volume "Il Bianco e Nero" for Il Castello Editore and published his book "Il Colore" in 2022. The more estensive new book “Capire il colore” was published by Il Castello Editore in 2023.

He is a consultant for some of the most important Italian brands: Mondadori, Franco Cosimo Panini Editore, Yoox, Calzedonia, Angelini Farmaceutici, Ideal Blue, and Marazzi Group. In 2016, he became the first Italian to be named EIZO Ambassador by the Japanese parent company. He still holds that role.

He currently teaches in five post-diploma courses at Trentino Art Academy and TAG – Alta Formazione Grafica in Trento, covering subjects such as Color Design, Photography Techniques and Technology, Computer Graphics, Photographic Post-production, and Desktop Publishing.

I discovered my passion for photography when I was just 14 years old and received my first camera as a gift, which I still own and use today. I have always wanted to learn more about this expressive form and certainly couldn't stop in the face of the digital revolution. Instead, I embraced it without ever abandoning the past, and my chance encounter with Photoshop in 1993 was love at first sight. Since then, I have never stopped studying, experimenting, making mistakes, and starting over until I became who I am today: an incurable photography and retouching enthusiast. I practice these with great satisfaction and, since 2008, I have also been teaching both amateurs and professionals the techniques of creative shooting and the development and retouching of their images.

I am the author of the guide “The RAW File - Development in 10 Steps” and I continue to develop a mixed light shooting technique called “The Color in Motion”... another great satisfaction of mine.

Ethics and sharing are the most powerful tools one can have. Only through them can one hope for true and valuable growth."

After completing his Master's in Professional Photography in 2001, he began working as a photographer, creating various advertising campaigns and catalogs. Since 2005, he has been an Adobe Certified Expert for Photoshop and a member of the AdobeGuru team, the official group of experts in Digital Imaging, conducting software demonstrations, seminars, and various product launch tours across Italy.

From 2009 to 2011, he worked at Canon Italia as a Professional Sales Imaging Product Specialist, overseeing the professional photography market, engaging in marketing and training activities in digital photography, and providing technical support to professional photographers at major international sporting and media events.

Since 2011, he has returned to working as a digital photography instructor, collaborating with several national associations such as C.N.A., Confartigianato, A.N.F.M. (National Association of Wedding Photographers), A.I.F.B. (National Association of Children's Photographers), and various schools including the Scuola Romana di Fotografia, John Kaverdash and Raffles in Milan, and Areadomani and Accademia Ligustica delle Belle Arti in Genoa.

In terms of post-production, notable projects include working on photos by renowned photographer Elliot Erwitt for the brand “Jacob Cohen,” a social media campaign for ADIDAS, and the launch campaign for the BMW M4. He collaborates with several agencies, managing the post-production and color management of images in the fields of furniture and fashion for catalog creation.

Facundo Sciutto is a talented 37-year-old Argentinian photographer specializing in fashion and portrait photography, who has built a solid professional career dedicating 12 years to high-end beauty digital retouching, establishing himself as a professional colorist using specialized software like MindTheColor and Capture One; his dedication to teaching has led him to record more than 10 online training courses, offering both directly downloadable courses and one-on-one lessons, through which he shares his expertise in high-end photo retouching, thus consolidating his position not only as an industry professional but also as a leading educator in the field of digital retouching.

Rafael Alves is a photographer and visual designer specialising in color design and visual communication. Since 2021, he has worked as a freelancer, collaborating with design studios and companies on visual strategies, photography and videomaking, with a strong focus on color reproduction. From 2019 to 2021, he worked as a visual designer at Accademia del Mobile, overseeing a brand identity restyling presented during the Fuori Salone. Previously, he managed art direction and visual design for AB AETERNO, contributing to product development and international events such as Baselworld. His background also includes experience in digital and interactive design at agencies like EWAKE, MWD.Digital and JoinTag. Driven by a deep interest in color science and digital imaging, he has pursued advanced training in those areas, including the Color Correction Campus led by Prof. Marco Olivotto.