Torrance Adult School Winter Registration

Winter session registration for the Torrance Adult Adult School begins December 7th for Mail-In Only, and walk-in registration begins December 16th.

Winter Class Schedules

 I now have my digital photography class schedules for the winter term for both the South Bay Adult School and the Torrance Adult School at Griffith. The easiest way to see the schedules from here is to click on their respective links in the Blogroll in the right column. The winter term starts in early January [...]

PVNET Intro to Digital Photography Class – Registration Opens

The introduction to digital photography class that I have written about the last couple of weeks is now ready to accept sign-ups. For a brief description of the class and to sign-up for it, click here. That will take you to the  PVNET Annex site. At the bottom of the page, you will see a [...]

PSE 8 Recompose Tool

One of the more interesting new features in the PSE 8 Editor is the Recompose Tool. Basically this new tool allows you to crop from the center of an image. Or in other words, remove the space or objects between two people/objects of your photo. Here is a short demonstration on how to use this new feature. [...]

New Introduction to Digital Photography Class

Hello Everyone,
I am excited to announce a new class that I will be teaching in about three weeks for the Palos Verdes on the Net  (PVNET) organization. Since this class will be a basic introduction to digital photography, it may not be of interest to those of you that regularly follow my blog. However, you may have [...]

Photoshop Elements 8 In Stores

Just a quick note about the availability of Adobe’s Photoshop Elements 8. It has been available for download for about three weeks or so. A student told me that Amazon was taking preorders for shipment on October 22nd or 23rd, I believe.
Today, in the Fry’s fold in the LA Times, Photoshop Elements 8 was shown. [...]

Photoshop Elements 8 Organizer Overview

Below is a link to a video that provides a brief tour of the Organizer in PSE 8. Actually it’s not so brief. The video runs about 20 minutes. Like all of my videos, it is certainly rough around the edges, but hopefully it gives you an idea what the main differences and enhancements are [...]

More Photoshop Elements 6 Video Tutorials

Here are a few more video tutorials I made using Photo Shop Elements 6. I made them as backups for one of my lecture cruises just in case I had laptop computer problems and was unable to do the live demonstration. Fortunately, I did not need to use them. They are not very polished, but I think [...]

Video Removing Red Eye

Here is another one of my cruise-backup videos that demonstrates how to remove red eye. The video was made using PSE 6, but it is essentially the same using later versions. The video is showing the Red Eye Removal tool be used from the Quick Fix window, but it works the same when you access the tool from [...]

PSE 6 Through PSE 8 Feature Chart

I put together a table some time ago comparing the basic features in more recent versions of Photoshop Elements.  Now that PSE 8 has been released, I decided to update the chart. Click here to see the table.