Using Adobe Photoshop Elements Beginners

The course introduces the tools, functions and facilities of Adobe Photoshop Elements, enabling the student to watch and practice techniques for improving his own or provided images.

Specific requirements for joining the course include: An understanding of basic computer terminology, together with the ability to put images onto the computer, either by download from a camera or memory card, by scanning or by transferring from CD or the Internet.

In order to achieve the aims the student will both observe and practice the following techniques using the appropriate Adobe Photoshop Elements tools, facilities and functions:

• Browsing and uploading images
• Cropping
• Colour correction
• Colour enhancement
• Cloning and healing
• Straightening horizons and buildings
• Dodging and burning mono and colour images
• Simple use of layers
• Eraser tool
• Preparing for print
• Selection of parts of an image - Marquee tools, Lasso tools, Selection brush, Magic Wand
• Correcting Red-eye and replacing catch-lights
• Sharpening
• Adjustment layers
• Saving Images
• Composite images and creative manipulation
• Old photograph restoration
  
  

At the start of the course the student records his/her existing skill levels in the tools, facilities and functions of Adobe Photoshop Elements, and these levels are continually monitored during the course.

The student will be encouraged to practice the techniques learned between the classroom sessions at home, either on their own images or those provided on the course, but there is no mandatory ‘homework’.

Related course you could progress to is: Improving Adobe Photoshop Elements, which is aimed at extending the acquired knowledge further by looking at more techniques.