Digital Photography Class 7

Straight onto the the computers tonight! No rest for the wicked.


For class tonight, I had prepared a dozen photographs for the students to 'repair' using the various tools in Paintshop Pro X3.  I had uploaded the images to my webspace, and the first thing the students had to do, was download them from the Internet and save in their 'My Pictures' folder.  Doing this saves me a little time, in that I dont have to copy the files to individual computers, or get the school technician to put the files in the students folders, and it has the added benefit that if the students have Paintshop Pro at home, they can download the pictures on their own computers and carry on at home at their own pace.


As I mentioned, there were twelve images, and I mentioned to the group that they were not to worry about the amount of images that were their, and that I would much prefer to see 2 well done images at the end of the class, rather than 10 badly rushed ones.

Tonight's Exercise (in PDF format, so you'll need Adobe Reader to view it)

For those not in class today, you can download the Exercise sheet by clicking on the image above, and if you haven't got a copy of PaintShop Pro at home, you can download a trial version from the following website:


http://www.corel.com/corel/product/index.jsp?pid=prod4130078&cid=catalog3550067&segid=2500058


Click here for the sample files from class, and you can have a go yourself at home.

Click on the Video above to see some of the new options in Corel's new Version X4 of PaintShop Pro.

It is time limited to about 30 days, but it will tide you over till Santa can get you a copy, so get it on your Xmas lists! ;)


The Exercise Sheet contained various images, with perhaps scribblings on that needed to be removed, or some specific instruction to what needed doing. For example their was a photograph of a new Lotus Evora, and it had advertising written down the side of the car. The exercise was to remove the text off the car. Another was a snowy hillside, and the task was to remove the sledgers from the image, and so on.


With a few teething issues, which is only to be expected, the results from tonight's session were really good. The whole group did a very good job indeed - well done everyone!


For those that asked about additional pages for their Student Folders, you can find them by clicking on the link below.


Click here for Student Diary files, and click on the ones you need.


Finally, here are some pictures from the class tonight! Enjoy them.

Hard at work on the computer!

Great job of fixing the photograph of the Rose!

Huw and Colin discuss techniques to correct their images.

Busy editing images, absorbed in the tasks!

All in all, it seemed to be a very enjoyable class. Time certainly flied by, and from what I gathered, everyone seemed to enjoy themselves. More Photo Editing fun next week....be sure to check back to see what we get up to!