This is my very first attempt at blogging – anywhere! I am not even sure of the proper protocol or ettiquite I should follow. Hopefully it won’t take me too long to figure out how to do this sort of thing. I have maintained a couple of web sites for some time now and have found that I need something more immediate to communicate my ideas and get feedback than my web sites provide. My sites will not win any design awards. I basically put them together with MS Word, and I am not very artistically inclined. Here are their URLs:
www.donstouder.com
The Main Entry page that you can use to get to the two sites below.www.donstouder.com/lhs-63/index.mht
Leuzinger HS Class of ‘63 sitewww.donstouder.com/Digital-Photo-Corner/digital-photo-corner-home.htm
My digital photography web site
Actually you can tell quite a bit about me, just from the addresses above. That’s me, Don Stouder. When I took out my domain name, I could not think of anything clever. Apparently, I am the first Don Stouder (There are others in this world.) registering a .com web site.
Quite some time ago, I started a web site for my high school graduating class. I think it has helped our class stay in touch over the years.
I use my Digital Photo Corner to stay in touch with my students. I have been teaching digital photograhy and related courses in the South Bay area of Los Angeles for over seven years now. One of the main uses of my web site is to let students know what courses I will be teaching where during the following term. Over the years thes classes that are taught in two different school districts have been quite popular and are often filled as soon as registration opens. Posting their description and schedule on my web site, gives my students a heads up for what is being offered when before they see the schools’ online announcements or receive their catalog in the mail. I also maintain an email distribution list that I use for the same purpose. It contans well over a 1000 names now.
That brings me to why I started this blog. It takes a lot of time to keep the web sites current (Something I do not do well enough.) and the distribution lists up to date. Also, except for the Guest Book, web sites seem to be one way ventures. Initially, I will concentrate on digital photography and related PC subjects in my blog. But I am sure other subjects will creep in as I go along and learn about blogging.
Ok, that is enough for my first blogging effort. Happy New Year!
Don
I am a student in your photo digital class and I am looking forward to learn how to and what to do with pictures of my family. I am working with 3 generations.
See you in class tomorrow evening.
Respectfully,
Ester Horompoly
Hi Ester,
Thanks for dropping by. Hopefully you will find some of the things we cover in class to be helpful for enhancing your family photos.
See you in class.
Don
Have a nice day !
Hi Don,
I am a student in your Thursday afternoon digital camera organizing class. Look forward to organizing my photos.
Read and enjoyed your Leuzinger High alumni site. I’m South High ’62.
Cheers!
Carl
My friend on Facebook shared this link with me and I’m not dissapointed that I came here.
Glad you like the blog.
Don
Hi – I can’t download the class worksheets for this Wed – can you email to me?
I sent an earlier email but not sure it was to the right email address.
Linda
Hi Don
I would like to take any beginner class you will be teaching this fall at either school—daytime!!! I will only be here till the middle of Oct!!! got any ideas???
Thanx, Sally
310-377-7285
Hi Sally,
As you know that is cutting the term pretty short. When you say you’ll only be here until the middle cof October, does that mean you are moving away?
If not, you may want to wait and take the class during the winter term starting in January.
I do private tutoring if that works best for you. If you are interested, email me at donstouder@ca.rr.com.
Hope to hear from you soon, or see you in a class.
Take care.
Don,
I downloaded and viewed your old PSE 6 tutorials and the tuturorials were excellent review of editing. I could use more tutorials to keep from forgetting how to edit photos. Thanks
Harold
Don, Missed you at the last Camera Club meeting. Great presentation. Just got the Costco catalog and they have a coupon for $30.00 off. That makes Elements8 $49.99. They don’t say if a MAC version is included in the promo. Glad to see the PV class offered. Hope something more advanced will come out of it.
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Don – I just want to again let you know how much I have progressed since that first digital camera class, and my first digital camera with thanks to you and your classes that I have taken at the appropriate times in my photo-education.. I now have taken many of the classes that you have taught at South Bay Adult School and one at Torrance.
As a former teacher, I am quite critical about the teaching style, content, and student results of the classes given though adult school format. I have found you to be incredibly prepared in your area of interest; very well organized via blog, handouts, class demonstrations; you are amazingly patient with your students, their attempts and computer abilities; and lastly, it is evident that every student finishes the class knowing far more than when the class began.
I don’t think anyone could expect more from a teacher, and may you continue to influence students with your love of photography!
See you when the schools move to 8.0….Sincerely, Susan
THank you so much for the kind words. They mean a lot!
Don
Mr. Stouder
Was just informed that the spring Advanced Digital Editing class was canceled. VERY dissapointing. Could not have helped that they changed it from Tuesday during the day to Wednesday night. I will look for the next offering do not want to miss this class. Thanks for the Elements Editing class, I enjoyed it a lot.
Michael
It’s disappointing to me too, Michael.
Don
Dear Don, I am not presently enrolled in a class of yours, but I’ve taken 2 PSE classes with you at theGriffith Center. I have a question which perhaps you can answer. My computer is old with only 40GB of memory which is soon to be filled up (I’ve put in over 4,000 photos in the past 2 years). I’m going to get more memory, but don’t see how I can transfer my PSE catalog intact to the new larger hardrive. If there’s a way to do this, I will be happy to pay you for your time in helping me. I am presently working with Windows XP and am not a whiz with computers, but I’m easily taught. Thank you for your time. Happy holidays!!!
Sincerely, Beth Denis
Hi Don,
We just returned from 6 weeks in New Zealand and took a lot of photos. After I downoaded all the images to PSE 7 I found that instead of the images appearing in the catalog I got hourglass shapes.
If I click on the hourglass the images then appear. How can I correct this?
Thanks for your help.
Mike Sulman
Mike,
Whenever you add a lot of photos to the Catalog at one time, it has to generate the thumbnails. This takes some time, because it is done in the background. You can continue to work as you discovered. PSE interrupted its overall generating thumbnails task when you selected an image, and generated the thumbnail for it.
I generally wait until rotating hourglass at the bottom of the screen disappears before I do much with the Organizer.
As your Catalog gets larger, you may see the Generating Thumbnails spinning hourglass each time you start PSE Organizer. I have about 28K images and mine spins for about 15 seconds whenever I startup PSE. I wait it out before beginning my work.
I am considering registering for the elements class tuesday 5-7pm at edison center as I just recently installed [but not yet opened] Elements 7.0 that I had purchased apx a year ago at TRW swapmeet for $29 [I know bc the price tag was still on the sleeve], my objection is that for the first eight weeks of the class, Don T is teaching a class in the same tech gardens room from 3-5pm. this decision by the school to have a zero transition time betw classes quite frankly just plain sucks. i know that as of this tuesday the class was eligible to be registered for. it probably will come down to me arriving at the campus no later than 4pm and if Don T’s class is cancelled, I will register for the Elements class. Hope to see you there ! ! !
Neil,
The zero transition time can be a problem. However, I do know that in the past, Don T has purposely conducted his class to minimize or eliminate the problem. By the way Neil, waiting until the last moment to enroll in a class greatly increases the chances that a class will be cancelled. All it takes is a handful of students doing that to cause problems.
ok, I guess you did not read my reply carefully enough; I have decided I will not register for any class that is involved in one of these zero transition time problems. it aint about what a handful of students do.
since entering kindergarten many years ago, I have attended dozens of schools and taken hundreds of classes and no school other than south bay adult school has ever pulled a stunt like this. I was in one of your 5-7pm classes that was started rite after a 3-5pm class and it is very inconvenient.
I am hoping the instructors involved refuse to teach under these conditions and there were more potential students like me that read the catalog carefully enough to observe the problem and refuse to register
Fantastic Stuff, do you have a facebook profile?
Thanks. I do, but is in a state of flux. You can click on the link in the upper right corner of this page to go there.