Adobe's Photoshop Elements 7 is full of outstanding features for advanced editing. This course is designed for those already familiar with cropping, printing, and color adjustments, as well the various selection tools. Now that you've learned the basics, discover how they all work together for detailed editing, building collages, restoring old photos, and more.

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 7 includes Adobe's powerful, award-winning layers. You'll learn all about combining images with layers, synchronizing artwork, frames, and images. 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. Hands-on exercises, with help and guidance each step of the way, will leave you feeling a great sense of accomplishment.

If you're ready to take your photo-editing skills to the next level, join us and see all the exciting things you can do with the advanced features of Elements!

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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 7 is Adobe's newest release of their popular photo-editing software. It's an excellent package for enhancing and editing digital images, and in this course, we'll explore its advanced features. In this first lesson, we'll discuss an effective workflow for digital editing. Photographers often wonder where to start when working with an image, and you'll get a good idea of the options available and the best sequence to follow.

Friday - Lesson 02

Today we'll look at tools to use for perfecting portraits. Although you can use these tools to fine-tune any type of image, you'll find them especially helpful with the detail work associated with portraiture. You'll see how to smooth away wrinkles with the new Surface Blur filter, 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 you often think of as desirable in photography, but with the options in Elements, you'll discover how distortion can work wonders! Today you'll see how to slim a waistline, trim loose edges, and accentuate the positive with distortion tools. You'll also find out how to correct an image by combining parts of two different photos, and you'll have a chance to get creative with the many brushes available in Elements.

Friday - Lesson 04

By this point, you'll be familiar with lots of the options Photoshop Elements gives us for editing images. 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 allow you to include clip art in your documents. But did you know that 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

Editing your images isn't all about painstaking details and procedures. It can be a lot of fun, too! Photoshop Elements offers countless special effects, filters, and styles that you can use to show off your images. Elements' Content and Favorites palettes let you organize your options as you add frames, backgrounds, clip art and shapes to expand your creativity. In this lesson, you'll find out how to sharpen and blur photos as well as how to salvage an image with these miraculous fixes!

Week Four

Wednesday - Lesson 07

Working with layers is one of the most powerful parts of Photoshop Elements. In this lesson and the next, you'll see how layers work from beginning to end. You'll build a quickly modifiable business card and a collage as you learn how to use Adjustment and Fill layers to your advantage. You'll also put the new Smart Brush tools to work with quick edits that leave you with stunning images.

Friday - Lesson 08

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

Week Five

Wednesday - Lesson 09

So far, we've done a lot with still photos, but in this lesson, we'll look at moving pictures. You'll see how to create an animated presentation from a sequence of images, and you'll have a chance to try out Photoshop Elements Flipbooks. And 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

Having looked at how to create moving pictures, today you'll find out how to capture a frame from a video or movie clip. We'll also discuss how to enlarge any image, correct vignettes, and create colored borders of many sizes and shapes around your work. Your friends and family will be impressed by the professional-looking enlargements you create!

Week Six

Wednesday - Lesson 11

Panoramics are a beautiful way to show off wide scenic shots. But did you know that you don't need a special camera or lens to get these shots? Today you'll see how the Photomerge feature in Elements helps you blend several photos to provide seamless panoramic imagery. We'll also look at some quick options for resizing and watermarking groups of photos all at once.

Friday - Lesson 12

In this, our last lesson, we'll go over a few remaining tools like the Cookie Cutter tool and the Shape tools, and you'll see how to use both to create more variations of clip art. You'll also work with a raw file and discover the benefits of working with these large, uncompressed images. Last, but not least, you'll learn strategies for achieving 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 course.

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 7.0 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, the Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox Web browser, and the Adobe Flash and PDF plug-ins (two free and simple downloads you obtain at http://www.adobe.com/downloads by clicking Get Adobe Flash Player and Get Adobe Reader).

Note:Adobe does not currently offer a Mac version of PSE 7.0—this class is designed for Windows users.

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