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Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Digital Photographer II
 Adobe's Photoshop Elements 5.0 for Windows is full of outstanding features for advanced photo editing. If you've already learned the basics of Photoshop Elements, this course will help you understand how to perform more sophisticated tasks, including detailed editing, building composite images, restoring old photos, and more.
This course is designed for anyone who is already familiar with basic tasks like selecting portions of an image, cropping, printing, and performing color adjustments. 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 as you edit portraits, distort images, apply filters, and much more. You'll discover how to restore old photos, how to add a hint of color to a monochrome image for a hand-tinted look, and how to build high-impact collages with images and text.
Photoshop Elements 5.0 includes Adobe's award-winning layer technology. You'll learn how to make the most of this powerful tool by combining images, synchronizing artwork with photographs, and giving yourself the flexibility to make quick changes to images long after they have been saved.
You'll learn how to share your images in exciting ways, through animation, flipbooks, slide shows, and more. You'll see how and when to use RAW images, as well as how to use JPEGs for outstanding prints and projects.
If you haven't fully unlocked the mysteries of Photoshop Elements 5.0, leave your frustrations behind and enjoy this fun and effective introduction to the advanced features of this fascinating program. Challenging exercises accompanied by expert help every step of the way will leave you with a great feeling of accomplishment.
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.
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Requirements:
Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0 (software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins), Windows 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). You should feel comfortable acquiring digital images, either with a digital camera, using images scanned onto CDs, or scanning film prints. You should already be familiar with such actions as using a mouse, creating and accessing folders, and saving files.
You should also be able to use basic Photoshop Elements 5.0 functions, such as Save, Crop, Straighten, and Print. You should be able to adjust color and lighting, convert images to black and white, copy and paste one image into another, use Levels, access Help, and create text. A complete knowledge of the selection tools, feathering, and cloning tools, such as the Rubber Stamp tool and the Healing Brush tools, is also required. If you do not feel that you have the required skills, please consider taking Beverly Schulz's online Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Digital Photographer course before taking this follow-up course.
Please note: the Macintosh version of this software contains several significant differences that are not covered in this course.
Syllabus:
A new section of each course starts monthly. 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.
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 lessons are released. You will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.
The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to complete all of your course work, including the final exam.
| 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.
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| 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 . . .
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| 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.
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| Friday - Lesson 06 |
Photoshop Elements offers countless special effects, filters, and styles that you can use to show off your images. Version 5.0's new artwork option adds 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!
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| 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.
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| 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 5.0's new Mapping option to track your images.
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| 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 also using 5.0's new 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.
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| 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.
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| 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. You can also use these features to manually blend collages into any shape you like! We'll also look at some quick options for resizing and watermarking groups of photos.
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| 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.
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Student Reviews:
- "I have been using Elements for years, since 1.0. This course has rounded off my understanding of the program very well. I have often felt that there were many aspects of the program that I did not understand or even know existed, and now I feel, for the first time, that I do have a thorough understanding of it. I have enjoyed and feel highly benefited from this class. Thank you very much for putting together an excellent program."
- "I have enjoyed this very much and feel like I can tackle any photo in my Photoshop Elements 5.0 program with confidence - or at least I know I can look it up in the lessons that I printed out!"
- "I really enjoyed this class. It was a great combination with the first Elements class. I never would have figured out how most of the tools worked on my own. Not only were the lessons and assignments helpful, but the other resources that were provided by Beverly were awesome. I found many of them that I will use over and over again. My family can't get over the things I have done since I started this class and now I have the confidence to try more and new projects with the software."
- "This software would have been very difficult to learn without this class. I now have references to use for projects I didn't know were possible."
- "This was my second class with Beverly... and it won't be the last! She presented the Photoshop Elements class in a manner that was easy for the non-professional to understand."
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