Five Week Camera Class 2

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a raster image editing product. Targeted at hobbyists and consumers, it is sold at a fraction (roughly ¹⁄₆) of the cost of its professional sibling, Adobe Photoshop CS. It contains most of the features of the professional version but with fewer and simpler options. The program allows users to create, edit, organise and share images, all from the same product.

We started off tonights session by exploring some of the mainly used tools in Photoshop Elements. Palmerston Centre is using version 8, but the latest version is version 11.  All of the tools are the same in the versions, they simply add additional functionality into the products.

Tonight's session was aimed at giving the students the freedom to simply play around with the product, get a feel for what it can do. They downloaded some images from the Internet, using a Google Image search, and pasted them into Photoshop Elements.

Some useful links:

http://www.photokaboom.com/photography/learn/Photoshop_Elements/clone_stamp_tool/1_clone_stamp_tool_basics.htm

http://www.dummies.com/how-to/content/cloning-elements-with-the-clone-stamp-tool-in-phot.html

Here are some video tutorials you may like to watch:

http://tv.adobe.com/show/learn-photoshop-elements-8/

Next week I will be setting the class some specific exercises to alter - I'll post some of the good examples afterwards!  We'll also be taking some pictures in class of some 'still life' arrangements, if people remember to bring something in.