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 [...]

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 [...]

Torrance Adult School Fall Digital Photo Classes

I’ve just received my fall schedule for the digital photography classes I will be teaching at the Torrance Griffith Adult Center. You can see the description and schedule by clicking here to go to my web site. For convenience, I have included the information below.
For those of you who are on my email distribution list and did not [...]

My South Bay Adult School Fall Classes

I now have my class schedule for the fall term. I’ll be teachinbg both the basic digital camera class and the advanced class for those of you who have a digital SLR camera. Or an advanced compact camera, which allows you to set the aperture and shutter speed manually will also work well. Remember, the [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]