Photoshop Elements 4

Course Description: Improve pictures quickly and easily! Experience the fun of true creative expression. Use Photoshop Elements as your digital dark room. In this quick overview course, learn basics and easy edits through fun hands-on print projects. Adjust colors and contrast, work with selections and layers, use touch-up tools, work with text, crop, resize, save for web and print, and maximize workflow with techniques to process multiple images. These simple techniques provide a foundation for digital imaging.

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Modules:

module 1

1. Get to Knowthe Work Area

2. Picture Perfect I: Enhance Colors in Event Photos
module 3

3. Picture Perfect II: More Color Enhancement with Event Photos
module 4

4. Simple Selections I: Building a 3-D Pyramid Box

5. Simple Selections II: Build a 3-D Pyramid Box

6. Picture Perfect: Photo Retouch and Sensational Certificates

7. Narrative Drawing: Draw the Human Shape

8. Work with Type: Create a Poster

9. Work with Type II: More Type Options

10. Perfect Panoramas: Adjustment Layers and Photomerge

11. Fantastic Filter Effects: Typographic Imagery

12. Presentation Portfolio: Frame Poetry with the Cookie Cutter

13. Assemble a Layout with Layer Styles: Create a Game board

14. Storytelling with Pictures and Patterns: Customized Patterns and Brushes

15. Maximize Efficiency: Process Multiple Files

16. Custom Calendars: Use the Create Wizard

17. Slide Show: Use the Create Wizard

18. Pixel Perfect: Bitmaps and Vectors

19. Set Up Essential Program Preferences

20. Quality Prints: Print Settings for a CD Cover