2-28-10
March – April
2010 Schedule
Late last year I began teaching
digital photography courses for PV Net or Palos Verdes on the Net. Generally speaking these are not the
same courses I teach for the South Bay Adult School or the Torrance Adult
School. Their structure and/or content is different. The classes are taught in
a building adjacent to the Rancho Palos Verdes City Hall off of Hawthorne Blvd.
PV NET is a non-profit
organization and has been in existence for many years offering courses and
other services. However, they have only recently begun to offer courses in
digital photography. They provide a nice teaching environment and are using
Photoshop Elements 8. To publicize their involvement in this area, they periodically
offer free preview classes to promote the fee-based classes. For example, on
February 23rd and February 24th , I taught preview
classes for the two classes shown below. Watch this space and/or my blog for
future preview classes sponsored by PV NET. Below are the descriptions and how
to register for the full length classes I will be teaching during March and
April. Each class runs for five weeks.
Home Video Editing – Multimedia Production
This class could also be subtitled
Introduction to Movie Maker. Microsoft’s Movie Maker program comes installed in
Windows XP and Vista, and a version is available as a free download for Windows
7. In this course, you will combine a series of photos and video clips to
produce a movie that can be shared with family and friends in a variety of
ways. You will learn how to edit the video clips, add background music, add
special effects and titles, and finally produce the finished movie. In this
class you will learn how to burn a DVD that can then be played back on a DVD
player attached to your television. This is an excellent course for you, if you
are just beginning to explore digital video editing and production. To
register, CLICK HERE.
Mondays, 10:00-12:00 noon beginning
March 8th. (5 Meetings)
Introduction to Digital Photography – The Basics
Are you new to digital photography? Did you just get your first
digital camera and are wondering what comes next? This class may be just what
you are looking for. In the course you will begin by taking a series of
pictures of Point Vicente Park and the PV coastline. During the course, you
will use Photoshop Elements 8 to upload your pictures to the computer, organize
them so they can be quickly found, improve their color and brightness, make a
simple slide show and other creations, and finally learn how to share them via
email, ordering prints, or uploading them to photo sharing websites. To
register, CLICK HERE.
Mondays, 10:00-12:00 noon
beginning April 19th (5 Meetings)
Photoshop Elements 8 Editing Tools Workshop (Coming Soon)
With each new version
of Photoshop Elements, new or improved editing tools and features are
introduced. The latest version, Photoshop Elements 8, has continued this
practice. These tools add entirely new capabilities or semi-automated tasks
that heretofore could only be done manually, which required a far better
understanding of the program.
In this unique class,
we will concentrate on exploring these new features that are often not that
visible even to those who have some experience using the program. Although we
will be using Photoshop Elements 8, several of the editing tools are also
available in recent earlier versions of the program.
A small sampling of
some of the tools/features we will use include Group Shot, PhotoMerge Exposure,
Filter Gallery, Magic Extractor, and Scene Cleaner, as well as several others.
Additionally, the course will be taught in a workshop environment allowing the
student to bring in their own photos on which to work.
If you have any problems, contact Diana Logan at DianaL@palosverdes.com.