Course Catalog

Discover simple tools you can use to improve your photos. Topics covered include, the theory of image editing, color correction, saturation adjustments, cropping images, putting text and borders on images, resizing images, saving edited images, using layers to make collages, superimposing two images together to create a composite, replacing backgrounds, and where and how to back up your photographs online. We will start by utilizing portions of Adobe Photoshop to catalogue, organize, and rate our images. Then we will move on to simple photo retouching and editing. By the end of the course we will be able to cut out the background from one photograph and replace it seamlessly with an entirely new background. You will need to purchase a subscription to Photoshop Creative Cloud from Adobe.com. We will discuss which option on the first day of class.