Copying Captioned Pictures to CD

This post was prompted by a student’s question. She had a group of pictures she had added captions using Photoshop Elements. She wanted to make a CD for a friend that would contain the pictures and their captions. The problem was that using Share >  CD/DVD did copy the captions, but they were not visible using Windows XP [...]

Photoshop Elements Quick Reference Guide Plus

Surfing the net today, I rediscovered a site I believe I’ve been to before. Its address is www.customguide.com/quick_references.htm. What you have here is a pretty large list of quick reference guides for many popular programs. They are in PDF format. When printed they look similar to those plastic laminated guides you can buy in a [...]

Photoshop Elements Catalog File – The Critical Link

Are you backing up your pictures and your Photoshop Elements Catalog? Are you using the PSE Backup command, or some other software program to this? Some of my students, especially those that are new to PSE are doing little to protect their images from either a hard disk crash or some kind of virus. Both [...]

Microsoft’s Photo Collage Program

 
Those of you that just finished the photo editing class at Torrance Griffith Adult Center remember we made a very simple photo collage consisting of only two photos and a background image. The key technique we used to blend the photos together was to borrow the Layer Mask that is part of an Adjustment Layer [...]

Photo Class Handout Pages Removed

Students, as you can see I have removed the password protected pages containing the class handouts for the classes I taught this spring. I will most likely add one or two public pages during the summer. Stay tuned.

Getting the Most From This Blog

Some of you reading this may not be that familiar with reading blogs, or at least the way mine is laid out. So I thought it might be a good idea to orient you a bit. To begin with, blogs show the latest post on the top and older posts in reverse order as you [...]

What Classes are You Interested in Taking?

As you probably know I will not be teaching at either the South Bay Adult School or the Torrance Griffith Adult Center this summer. However, school budgets permitting, I do plan to be back at both schools in the fall. Watch this blog for details as I learn later this summer.
I will be using the [...]