Adobe Photoshop Elements

• Computer skills
• Basic knowledge of the Windows operating system

Audience

• Photo enthusiasts and hobbyists
• Web and graphic designers

Adobe Photoshop Elements is a software for editing and organizing photos. It has many tools for improving and creating photos. It also has an organizer for sorting and finding photos. Users can make and share photo projects, such as slideshows and collages, with Adobe Photoshop Elements.

This instructor-led, live training (online or onsite) is aimed at beginner-level to intermediate-level photo enthusiasts and graphic designers who wish to use Adobe Photoshop Elements to edit and enhance their photos.

By the end of this training, participants will be able to:

• Edit and enhance their photos with various tools and functions.
• Organize and manage their photo collections with the organizer.
• Create and share photo projects such as slideshows, collages, and calendars.
• Apply artistic effects and filters to their photos.
• Perform basic and advanced photo retouching techniques.

Format of the Course

• Interactive lecture and discussion.
• Lots of exercises and practice.
• Hands-on implementation in a live-lab environment.

Course Customization Options

• To request a customized training for this course, please contact us to arrange.

Program General Settings

• Introduction
• General settings
• General features of the program
• main selection menu
• Setting the workspace
• Histogram

Layer

• principle of operation
• underlay the creation of layers
• the text in the image

Basic raster file formats

• what are the pixels
• the issue of resolution.
• file formats.
• image quality and file size
• preparation for the Internet
• preparation of photolab

Photo Correction

• brightness / contrast and shadows / highlights
• removal of undesirable color
• color variations
• hue and saturation
• replace color

Cropping

• principles of composition
• crop image
• discarding unwanted items
• adjust the paper size
• sharpen

Tools

• brushes
• local brighter or darker image
• cloning
• selection method

SETUP FILE FORMATS

• internet formats: GIF, PNG
• storing of the logo using transparency on the www site or photoblog
• notch product from the background
• camera file formats (cliche): RAW
• Adobe Camera RAW
• why use RAW format?

PRACTICE

• retouch portraits
• staff portraits
• what to look for creating photo portraits
• folding panorama
• depth of field
• black and white photo
• the use of gradients
• picture in sepia
• Red-eye reduction