Rich Lauer has been taking pictures and teaching photography for many years. His PhotoShop Elements 6 workshop was the most popular workshop at ScubaFest 2009.
PhotoShop Elements 8 - The Basics & Beyond
Digital cameras and housings have become uncomplicated and inexpensive. Taking a camera along on your dive has become almost second nature to today’s divers. Still, the camera doesn’t always deliver what your eye sees. Even the best pictures can usually be improved by small adjustments – cropping, exposure, contrast, or color.
Adobe Photoshop is the benchmark software for adjusting, correcting, and tweaking your photographs, whether shot with a digital camera or scanned from a picture or slide. Photoshop Elements is the popular consumer version, available in the $100 range, loaded with tools and features that can bring out the best in your prize photos, or help correct the underwater imperfections.
This workshop is for the beginner in photo editing, those new to Photoshop, and those with some experience wanting to learn new techniques. You are welcome to bring your laptop with you to this workshop, but it’s not required. You will be given full session notes with all the procedural steps outlined, for work at home. If you do bring your laptop, you will be given a set of the pictures we will be adjusting, allowing you to try it at the same time.
The workshop will center on Photoshop Elements 8 (last year it was Elements 6). But we had success in this seminar with many different versions of Photoshop -- Elements 5, 6, 7 or 8, Photoshop 7, CS2, CS3 and CS4. If you have Photoshop on your computer you should be able to work along with the instructor. If yours is an older version, there might be some exercises you won’t be able to do, but the vast majority you will.