From Photo to DVD - Preserving those Precious Memories

Course details

"From Photo to DVD - Preserving Those Precious Memories"covers three primary topics.  First, we'llexplore some techniques and strategies for taking better digital photos.  We'll take a moderately deep dive into portraitand landscape photography and an overview look at sports, low-light andunderwater photography.  Next, we'llexplore the editing of photos using Adobe's Photoshop Elements.  We begin simply with things like cropping, light and color adjustments.  By the timewe're finished we'll have explored photo merges, panoramas, special effects andeven creating your own images from scratch. We conclude the course with a look at creating high quality videos andDVDs with Adobe's Premiere Elements. Again we start simply with things like single-threaded timelines, music,narration and transitions.  By the timewe conclude you will be creating photo montages, utilizing multiple,simultaneous timelines and creating your own menus.  It should all be great fun.

The course is best suited for individuals familiar withdigital photography, but seeking to improve their skills.  No prior knowledge of photo or video editingis required.  Similarly, Adobe'sPhotoshop and Premiere Elements are not required.  The download and installation of the freetrial versions of each of these products is described within the course.

Rick Phillips, Ph.D., the instructor for this course,describes himself as "someone who doesn't always color within the lines."  He is energetic and entertaining, but willlikely challenge you within every section to expand your understanding and explore theworld around you.  As Rick is known tosay, "have some fun out there, but Keep On Learning!"