In this hands-on class, you’ll learn to navigate the wide world of Photoshop Elements to upload and enhance your digital images. Elements is a simpler, more user-friendly edition of the full Photoshop program – and it’s cheaper, too. You’ll work with your own images as you learn to control key image elements like contrast, sharpness, and color. You’ll also learn to solve common problems with handy retouching and image-editing tools. Pro photographer Mike Vraneza will walk you through the program and show you how to make the most of your images.

Students must have fundamental computer skills to take this class, should bring usb jump or external hard drives to class and may use the digital lab for five hours free of charge during their enrollment.

About the Facility:

This class will be held in Newspace’s state-of-the-art digital lab space. Each student will have their own 20-inch iMac station and access to all software and hardware necessary for the class. Studying in our lab makes learning easy – all the tools you’ll need will be right at your fingertips.

Mike Vraneza is a freelance photographer, pixel chef, and photo instructor based in Portland, OR. He has served as the technical editor on two of Wiley Publishing’s Photoshop books, Adobe Photoshop Elements 8: After the Shoot and Adobe Photoshop CS5, Restoration and Retouching, For Digital Photographers Only. Mike advises corporate clients on Photoshop and image editing and provides private instruction to hobbyists and aspiring photographers. He also lectures to local photography groups and leads demonstrations at Adobe users groups. Mike has also taught photography to incarcerated juvenile delinquents with Fresh Eyes, a program in New Mexico. His commercial work focuses on lifestyle, sports, business communication, and architectural photography.

www.mgvphoto.com

Please Note: All sections are the same class offered at different times.