Photoshop Elements & CS Classes

Green Valley Camera Club


Elementary Photoshop Elements

Organizing images in the computer with Photoshop Elements Organizer. Quickly editing and enhancing images in Element with Quick Edit. And extras such as cards, calendars, photomerge, and picture package.

Day 1

  • Photoshop Organizer Lesson One -- "Organizing a Lifetime of Photos"
    An introduction to organizing your digital photographs using Photoshop Organizer. You will learn how to get your photos into organizer, tag the images for easy retrieval, search your images, and perform simple photo editing.

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Basic Photoshop Editing

Introduction to editing images in Photoshop Elements or in Photoshop CS. Light correction with levels, brightness, and contrast. Color correction with hue and saturation. Local corrections with the clone tool, with layers, and with adjustment layers. And replacing dull, grey skies with bright cloudy skies.

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Bonus Projects

Advanced Photoshop Editing

A continuation of Basic Photoshop Editing. 90% of this class can be done in Photoshop Elements but a couple of items may be introduced using features from Photoshop CS. Topics will include working with masks in adjustment layers, detailed use of the selection tools to cut out objects from one image and moving them to another image, black and white conversions, clipping layers, etc.

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Bonus Project