Handouts For Fall Classes

I am beginning to develop the Pages that I will use to distribute handouts for the classes I will be teaching at the Torrance Griffith Adult Center and the South Bay Adult School. The pages themselves will be password protected. You may notice names and the formats changes on this main blog page as I [...]

Reminders

Hi Everyone,
For those of you who are former or potential students in my digital photography classes, I have a couple of updates.
Apparently, the South Bay Adult School will open their web site for online registration on approximately August 7th. Also, their walk-in registration begins  approximately August 14th. I do not have any new information as [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Don’t Turn Your Camera Off Too Fast

Yesterday I went to upload some recent pictures from my Canon XTi’s memory card into the Photoshop Elements 7’s Organizer. This is very routine for me having done it hundreds of times.  This time things did not go as expected.
To begin with, I had become lazy and had not emptied my card for some time, although I had [...]

Converting .MOV Files to .AVI – One Way

Many digital cameras can take movies also. They often save the video in a .mov file format, which is the Apple Quicktime format. Although Photoshop Elements can accept these files into the Organize and generally play them back through the Quicktime viewer, they can not be included in a slide show. Video files for slide [...]

Using Microsoft’s Live Writer

This post is probably more for my benefit than for anyone who might read it. Up until now, my posts have been made using WordPress’ editor. Although it is reasonably friendly, it appears to do certain tasks and formatting you need to know HTML – I don’t. In reviewing some of my recent RSS feeds [...]