ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS COURSES

Learn how to adjust, edit and enhance your photos from a photographer's point of view. In these workshops, we will help you turn good photographs into great ones. The great French photographer said that photography was - “painting with light’ and whilst Photoshop Elements is a great tool for manipulating your images, there is no substitute for a well exposed and composed image straight from the camera.

Participants in all of our editing workshops will work on one of our laptop pc’s for the day and we will supply detailed notes for you to work from at home. Click here for an example.

PC and Mac Users

These workshops are suitable for both PC and Mac users. If you have your own laptop with either Elements or Photoshop loaded, you are welcome to bring it on the day. Please let your tutor know in advance.

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1. From Camera to Computer

From camera to computer, we will show you how to transfer and organise your photos, get adjust exposure and colour in your images. Crop images to a specific size, and get better pictures from your home printer. Here are some examples:


Correcting underexposed images

Improving colour

Removing unwanted details (in this case the date stamp)

Removing blemishes

What you will learn:

Transferring Images from camera to computer
File organisation
Backing up images
Saving images – file types and formats
Elements toolbars and palettes
Rotating images
Cropping images to improve composition
Cropping images to a specific size
Adjusting image exposure
Adjusting image colour using variations
Using the clone tool
Converting colour images to monochrome
Red eye reduction
Removing blemishes with spot removal tool and healing brush

Skill Level 1. Activity Level 0. Click here for details.

Dates, Venues & Prices for this Workshop

Region	Day	Date	Venue	Cost £	Places
East of England	Fri	7 May 2010	Wicken Fen, Cambs.	70.00	3
East of England	Sat	15 May 2010	Burghley House, S Lincs.	70.00	>3
East of England	Fri	18 June 2010	Anglesey Abbey, Cambs.	70.00	>3
East of England	Sat	26 June 2010	Stanwick Lakes, Northants.	70.00	>3
West Midlands & Cotswolds	Fri	14 May 2010	Central Birmingham Add extra bite to your images with editing, great workshop for all editing software	65.00	>3

REVIEWS

Just a note to say how much I enjoyed the course last week. It was incredibly helpful and told me enough to really make a difference. It was worth paying £65 just to learn how to crop properly! Of course I did learn a lot more besides - all useful.

" ..... just wanted to say thank you for the Photo Editing workshop at Hardwick the other week. You have a very good way of putting things across and take it at a nice easy pace. I got a lot out of it and have enjoyed playing around and enhancing some of my pics. I'm possibly looking at having some of them printed on a calendar for next year, just as gifts for friends and family. Keep spreading the word about your courses and perhaps next year, when I've built up a bit of confidence with Photoshop, I will see you again on one of your more advanced courses".

"Many thanks for the informative day last weekend at Wimpole. I really enjoyed it and gained so much. I have had fun playing with my photos this week and found your notes really helpful!"

I really enjoyed the course yesterday and feel I have a much better "grounding" in the software now. You are very good at explaining things and I have already started trying things out. So thank you for a very good day of tuition.

Again, another fantastic course. It has really boosted my confidence using Photoshop tools. Rod explained all steps very clearly and in a logical order. I have just spent four hours this morning consolidating my knowledge and editing personal photos. I have revised cropping, rotating, removing red eye, removing blemishes, removing unwanted people and replacing them with background shrubbery, and produced vignettes. I have changed a beautiful photo of Ely cathedral with roses in the foreground - alas with a leaning tower - to a small cropped photo with upright tower, now appearing on one of my letterheads.