See it. Finish it.
Go shoot again.
AI photo critique · Photoshop scripts · Workshops.
Every step of your photography workflow, in one place.
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What sets it apart
Built from personal frustration
These tools weren't built by imagining what users might need. They were built to automate the repetitive work Murata did every night in the field. Only what was genuinely necessary made it in.
No generative AI. No cloud upload.
Removal is done by replacing original pixels — no AI generation, no image alteration, no data sent to the cloud. Everything runs inside your own Photoshop installation.
20 years of field experience in the defaults
1X Award ×5, 6 published books, CP+ conference speaker. The processing judgments Murata refined over two decades in the field are baked into the script parameters. These aren't presets — they have reasons.
The tools are just the beginning
Workshops go beyond "how to use it" — they cover the why behind every processing decision. Using the tools while learning the thinking raises the level of your own judgment.
Resources & help
Photographer Ichiro Murata
Astrophotographer based in Hokkaido, Japan — shooting in the field for over 20 years.
1X Award ×5, 6 published books, CP+ conference speaker.
Sidekick was born from the exhausting repetitive work Murata did every night after returning from a shoot.
