Photoshop Elements

 

 

Instructor: Pat Jones

 

Pat Jones began working part-time for the Huntington Beach Adult School as an instructional aide in the Technology Center. Within a year she began teaching part-time and eventually taught full-time. Pat attended teaching certification classes at California State University Long Beach where she received a life Designated Subjects Vocational Teaching Credential and a life Community College Vocational Instructor Credential. Pat is also a certified Microsoft User Specialist Authorized Instructor. In the 34 years of her teaching career Pat has taught various versions of Word, Excel, Access, PowerPoint, Publisher, HTML (website creation), Windows and Photoshop Elements. Pat retired from full-time teaching in June of 2012, but continues to teach part-time for the Adult School.

 

 

Learn how to quickly and easily edit photos with the many powerful features of Photoshop Elements. Students will be introduced to the various edit modes and tools needed to create photo projects including photo retouching, cropping, selecting objects, using layers, color correction, removing red eye, saving for print, resizing, and much more!

Minimum skill requirements: Before enrolling in this course, participants should possess basic computer skills including mouse operation and saving files into folders and experience with Windows or Mac.

 

 

Learn to use the Enhance menu commands and review the most useful tools including the Spot Healing Brush Tool, the Clone Stamp Tool and the Quick Selection Tool. Learn how to colorize a black and white photo, how to use layers to enhance and sharpen photos, and how to use clipping groups. Create photo panoramas from your digital photos. Once editing is complete, use your artistic talent to arrange photos in collages. Introducing Adjustment Layers, Filters and Effects.

Prerequisites: Adobe Photoshop Elements Basics 1