Photoshop Elements Unleashed

Photoshop Elements Unleashed

ESSENTIAL SKILLS FOR DIGITAL ENHANCING

Adobe Photoshop Elements is probably the most popular entry level image enhancing and editing software today. Often referred to as ‘Photoshop Junior’, it contains many of the essential ‘elements’ of Photoshop, hence its name. Although Photoshop has many additional features and is regarded as the industry standard for imaging professionals, Elements is a powerful editing and creative program in its own right. For enthusiasts who want to have some fun with the option of getting more serious about their digital photography with Photoshop later, they will find the whole family can accomplish excellent image creating and editing tasks.

This seven hour workshop will provide practical guidance in the essential Photoshop Elements skills and techniques to enable you to create, manage and enhance digital files.

A CD containing a number of my better images will be provided so that each participant can personally use them to follow the individual steps I take, to produce great images.

Suitable For

The workshop is suited for photographers having a modest or no working knowledge of image enhancing software and are keen to ‘start from scratch’ with a proven and popular entry level digital software. A working understanding of basic computer skills is desirable for this workshop.

Requirements

Participants will need their personal laptop computer, loaded with a recent (Elements 6,7 or 8) version of Adobe Photoshop Elements or a trial version. Participants may use PC or MAC computers as the techniques are similar. Hand outs will be provided for reference during the course and for revision afterwards. A CD containing the images to be used during the workshop will also be supplied. Participants can therefore follow the techniques and skills demonstrated step by step.

Participant Numbers

A minimum of 8 participants is required to run the workshop.

Date:

28th February, 2010

Times

Start 9.00 am and finish 5.00 pm

Venue

The venue is normally Wollaston College Conference Centre, Wollaston Road, Mount Claremont but may change depending on participant numbers. People enrolled will be informed of any venue change ahead of time.

Cost

$259.00 inclusive of 7 hours tuition, GST, all day tea and coffee, lunch, handouts and working CD.

Enrolment

Choose your course date and pay the course fee – you may pay using Visa or MasterCard, and if you have a PayPal account you can pay from your linked bank account.
28th February, 2010

April 11th 2010

Workshop Outline

The Photoshop Elements Workspace

• The Welcome Screen
• The Organizer workspace
• The Editor workspace
• The Toolbox
• Palettes
• Zooming in and out
• Undo, redo and cancel
• Reverting to the last saved version
• Saving images
• The Undo History palette

Getting Photos into Photoshop Elements and Edit Modes

• Bring images into Photoshop Elements
• Getting images from files and folders, CD, DVD
• The Edit mode environment

Using the Photo Browser

• Sorting files in the Photo Browser
• Selecting images in the Photo Browser
• Resizing, refreshing, or hiding thumbnails
• Editing image details
• Saving images

Cropping, Resizing and Resolution

• Cropping an image
• Changing the size of the canvas
• Straightening an image
• Image Resolution
• Changing the print dimensions and resolution of an image

Making Selections

• Rectangular and Elliptical Marquee tools
• The Lasso tool
• The Magnetic Lasso tool
• The Magic Wand tool
• The Magic Selection Brush tool
• Modifying Selections
• Copying and pasting selections or layers

Colour Basics

• Colour corrections
• Working with Quick Fix
• Making Levels adjustments

Manipulating Image

• Straightening an image
• Removing red eye
• The Spot Healing Brush
• The Healing Brush
• Rotating an image
• Scaling an item

Layers

• Using layers
• Common layers management tasks
• Adjustment and fill layers

Text

• Text basics
• Editing text and applying effects

Lighting, colour, contrast and Clarity

• Adjusting shadows/highlights
• Adjusting brightness/contrast
• Levels
• Hue/saturation/colour casts

Optimizing Images for E-mail and the Web

Printing and Sharing Images

• Printing images
• Creating a slide show