It's really hard to recommend a 'trustworthy" brand when competing brands are ade on the same production lines, by the same tech workers and using the same parts.
For the last dozen years or so we have had all our laptops custom built by Clevo distributors whereby we have selected the major parts going into the build. When making this recommendation, the most common response I get is "I never heard of Clevo...." Well did you ever hear of Quanta, Wistron, Pegatron ... cause those and other "no names" are the ones who made all the laptops you are likely familiar with but their only role in production was buying them from the OEM and designing the logo that was slapped on them/
The vast majority of laptops on the market are manufactured by a small handful of Taiwan-based Original Design Manufacturers (ODM). Major relationships include:
Quanta sells to (among others) HP, Lenovo, Apple, Acer, Toshiba, Dell, Sony, Fujitsu and NEC
Compal sells to (among others) Acer, Dell, Toshiba, Lenovo and HP/Compaq
Wistron (former manufacturing & design division of Acer) sells to Dell, Acer, Lenovo and HP
Inventec sells to Toshiba, HP, Dell and Lenovo
Pegatron sells to Asus, Toshiba, Apple, Dell and Acer
Foxconn sells to Asus, Dell, HP and Apple
Flextronics (former Arima Computer Corporation notebook division) sells to HP
http://forum.notebookreview.com/threads/clevo-guide-v2-0-faq-and-reseller-info.91510/
CLEVO is a large Taiwanese computer company specializing in laptops. While the Clevo brand name is perhaps not widely known, their products are re-branded and sold by known boutique brand OEMs (Original Equipment Manufacturers); notably Sager, VoodooPC, Falcon Northwest, Eurocom, etc. They are also considered (by whoever knows about notebooks) to design and manufacturer the best of the best notebooks in terms of superior build quality and innovative designs.
Clevo resellers are prohibited from advertising lower than set limits. we buy ours here:
https://lpc-digital.com/
For Photoshop and, I assume gaming in your spare time, I think $900 is a bit low for satisfactory performance. Cores, memory and screen real estate play a big part here. I'll pop back with a build that will serve adequately for those purposes.