Adobe's Photoshop Elements 6.0 is full of outstanding features for advanced editing. Once you've learned the basics, you're ready to see how they all work together for detailed editing, building collages, restoring old photos, and more. This class is designed for those already familiar with cropping, printing, and color adjustments, as well the various selection tools. If you're ready to take your photo-editing skills to the next level, join us and see what more you can do with the advanced features of Elements.

In this class, you'll develop an orderly photographer's workflow with options for portrait editing, image distortion, filters, and much more. Using these advanced features, you'll see how to restore old photos and add a hint of color for a hand-tinted look, as well as how to build high-impact collages with images and text.

Photoshop Elements 6.0 includes the powerful option for Adobe's award-winning layers. You'll learn how to make the most of it by combining images with layers, synchronizing artwork, frames and images, and increasing your options for flexibility even after your work is finished.

With options for sharing your images like animation, Flipbooks, slide shows, and collages, Photoshop Elements will be your first choice for image editing. You'll see how and when to use RAW images, as well as how to use JPEGs for outstanding prints and projects.

You'll come away from this course amazed by what you can do!

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Syllabus:

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when the lesson is released, but you must complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

A new section of each course starts on the second or third Wednesday of each month. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

Week One

Wednesday - Lesson 01

Photoshop Elements is an excellent package for photographers to use for editing and enhancing digital images, and in this class, we'll move into the advanced features for photographers. In the first lesson, we'll dive into a workflow for digital editing. Photographers often wonder where to start when working with an image, and this lesson will give you a good idea of the options available and a sequence to follow.

Friday - Lesson 02

In this lesson, we'll look at the Photoshop Elements tools that will help you in perfecting portraits. Although you can use these tools for fine-tuning any type of image, portrait photographers often use them for detail work associated with pictures of people. Today, you'll find out how to smooth away wrinkles, remove red eye, and even turn gray hair brown! If only it were so easy in real life.

Week Two

Wednesday - Lesson 03

Distortion—it's not a word that you might consider desirable in photography. But with the options in Photoshop Elements, you'll find distortion can do wonders! In today's lesson, you'll find out how to slim a waistline, trim loose edges, and accentuate the positive with distortion tools.

Friday - Lesson 04

Photoshop Elements gives you lots of options for editing images and in this lesson, we'll turn to the task of restoring old and damaged photographs. You'll see how to turn back the effects of time, as well as how to add hints of color to black-and-white images.

Week Three

Wednesday - Lesson 05

Many computer programs offer you the option of including clip art in your documents, and with Photoshop Elements, you can make your own! Today you'll see how to extract small portions of a photograph without any surrounding border, and how to use it in other images and documents. You'll also find some great ways to merge text and imagery to create outstanding photographic impressions.

Friday - Lesson 06

Photoshop Elements offers countless special effects, filters, and styles that you can use to show off your images. 6.0's new Content and Favorites palettes let you organize your options as you add frames, backgrounds, clip art, and shapes to expand your creativity. In today's lesson, you'll see how to sharpen and blur photos as well as how to salvage an image with these miraculous fixes!

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

The ability to create layers in photographs is one of the most powerful aspects of Photoshop Elements, and in this lesson and the next, you'll see how they work from beginning to end. With layers, you'll build a quickly modifiable business card and a collage as you learn how to use Adjustment and Fill Layers to your advantage.

Friday - Lesson 08

As we continue our discussion on layers in this lesson, you'll see how to add patterns, blend layers with colors and effects, and group them for great framing options. Using layers in Photoshop Elements is like supercharging a racecar—and you'll be in the driver's seat! You'll also explore Adobe's Mapping option to track your images.

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

In this lesson, we'll look at moving pictures. You'll see how to create an animated presentation from a sequence of images, and Photoshop Elements Flipbooks. If that isn't enough, you'll also see how to create dazzling slide shows with special effects, text, and music to showcase your images.

Friday - Lesson 10

Now that you've seen how to create moving pictures, it's time to learn how to capture a frame from a video or movie clip, and that's what we'll do in this lesson. We'll also discuss how to enlarge any image, correct vignettes, and create colored borders of many sizes and shapes around your work.

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

Panoramic images are a beautiful way to show off wide scenic shots. In today's lesson, you'll see how Photoshop Elements helps you blend these to provide seamless imagery with 6.0's new dynamic software. We'll also look at some quick options for resizing and watermarking groups of photos.

Friday - Lesson 12

In our last lesson, I'll fill you in on a few remaining Photoshop Elements tools, like the Cookie Cutter tool, the Shape tools, and how to use both for more variations of clip art. You'll also work with a RAW file and see the benefits of working with these large, uncompressed files. Last, but not least, you'll see how to use one more strategy to achieve perfect exposure in a finished print. You'll find yourself with lots of knowledge and hours of practice under your belt as you finish up this class on the advanced features of Photoshop Elements.

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Beverly Schulz.

Beverly Schulz is a freelance photographer and a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography's Professional Photographer's program. She teaches a number of classes in digital photography and has more than 25 years of classroom instruction experience. Her writing and photography have been published in a number of magazines. She has traveled extensively and participated in onsite photography workshops as well as independent photo quests. In addition to teaching and photographic work, she provides consulting services for digital photographers and clients.

Requirements:

Photoshop Elements 6.0 for Windows (please be sure to install this software on your computer before the course begins); Microsoft Windows Vista or XP; Internet access; e-mail; and the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser.

Note: This course is focused on Windows software and instructions, but Macintosh users are welcome. Over 90% of the material covered can be done with the Mac version of Photoshop Elements 6.0.

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