Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Digital Camera Basics

• Digital Photography defined
• Pixel defined
• How digital photos are stored
• Bitmapping
• Pixel resolution
• Pixilation defined
• File sizes
• Pixels per inch (PPI) defined
• Standard for Internet use
• High resolution cameras
• Types of camera
• Automatic point and shoot
• Professional cameras
• Camera bodies with separate lenses
• Photo storage - Memory cards
• Compression formats
• LCD display
• Batteries / Rechargeable batteries
• AC Adaptor for cameras
• Digital and optical zoom
• Interpolation defined

Section 3 - Using Your Digital Camera

• Changing shooting modes
• Automatic mode
• f-stop defined
• Shutter speed
• ISO settings
• Scene settings
• Portrait
• Landscape
• Night Scene
• Sports
• Program settings
• Manual Aperture setting
• Manual mode
• Pressing button to lock focus
• Instantly review photos
• Zoom in to review photos
• Delete photos in review

Section 4 - Understanding Scanners

• Types of scanners
• Sheetbed
• Flatbed
• Drums
• Film and slide
• Bit depth defined
• Uses of scanners
• Setting resolution

Section 5 - Using Your Scanner

• Positioning the picture on the scanner
• E-mail format
• Printer format
• Scanning photos
• Prescan
• Cropping
• Choosing output type
• Optional adjustments
• Save picture

Section 6 - Transferring Images

• Downloading defined
• Connecting cable to computer
• USB defined
• Card reader
• Wireless transfer
• Transfer and download images from camera
• Viewing thumbnails
• Assigning keywords
• Saving files
• Create new folder
• Deleting photos from the camera

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Storing Digital Images

• Taking digital camera on the road
• Bring along laptop
• Portable storage device (PSD)
• Personal media players (iPod)
• Portable disk burner
• Lots of memory cards
• Using Internet café to e-mail

Section 3 - Managing and Archiving Photos

• Digital asset management
• Naming and organizing photos
• Internal naming feature in camera
• Reset numbering mode
• Using folders to organize photos
• Renaming photos
• Batch rename
• Sorting photos
• Categorization of photos
• Database
• Keyword defined
• Assigning keywords
• Finding photos by keywords
• Photo management software
• Permanent storage
• Copying to CD or DVD
• Care of CDs or DVDs
• External hard drives
• Commercial web sites

Section 4 - Editing Your Photos

• Sharpen, brighten, and enhance photographs
• Photoshop® Elements
• Abode® Photoshop®
• Quick Fix mode
• BMP defined
• BMP dialog box
• Layout of Elements windows
• Commands and elements of Photoshop Elements
• Smart fix
• Red-eye fix
• Lighting changes and levels
• Viewing before and after elements
• Zooming in and out
• Tools and toolboxes
• Setting contrasts
• Sharpening photos
• Rotating and flipping photos
• Cropping photos

Section 5 - Improving Your Photos

• Photographer makes the picture
• Understand your camera
• Read your manual
• Experience with different settings
• Macro Mode settings
• Black and White settings
• White Balance setting
• ISO setting
• Composition of the photos
• Rule of thirds
• Simplifying photographs
• Lighting
• Magic light at beginning or end of day
• Fill flash
• Posing subjects
• Using tripods and lots of film or memory cards

Section 6 - Photos on the Internet

• Preparing a photo for e-mailing
• Adjusting file size and levels
• Attach photo to e-mail
• File formats
• JPEG
• GIF
• TIFF
• Considering size of photograph
• Recipient's e-mail server
• Number of photos sent at once

Section 1 - Introduction

Section 2 - Fixing Photo Problems

• Standard edit workspace in Photoshop Elements
• Correcting red-eye
• Brush tool
• Zoom tool
• Saving edited photos

Section 3 - Advanced Photo Editing

• Cropping
• Rotating image to straighten horizon
• Straightening tool
• Canvas options
• Correcting and adjusting color
• Adjusting for skin tone
• Digital noise defined
• Noise reducing filter

Section 4 - Having Fun with Digital Images

• Adding text
• Changing fonts and text sizes
• Moving and coloring text
• Using the layers palettes
• Adding shapes and symbols
• Delete layer from palette
• Using filters
• Filter gallery

Section 5 - Sharing Photos Online

• Photo storage and sharing service companies
• Downsizing and resizing photos
• Opening a Web storage account
• Upload photos to the gallery
• Install uploading software
• Sharing online photo album

Section 6 - Printing Your Photos

• Setting resolution for printing
• Cropping for photo paper
• Copy picture to CD and print at outside printer
• Upload to photo lab web site
• Printing at home
• Snapshot printer
• Paper and ink information
• Print setup windows
• No borderless images
• Scale to media

Section 7 - Using Photoshop Elements Organizer

• Open Organizer
• Photo browser
• Get Photos features
• Sorting photos
• Adding tags (keywords) to photos
• Rating photos
• Finding all tags
• Creating collections of photos
• Creating albums
• Deleting photo from collection or album

Section 8 - Presenting Your Photos

• Digital slide show
• Playing and watching a slide show
• Sorting photo in slide show
• Slide Show settings
• Pan and zoom to slide show
• Adding text, graphics, and narration to slides
• Soundtrack
• Save slide show project
• Selecting means of output

Section 9 - Expanding Into Video

• Using the VGA Video mode
• Setting frame size
• Record images and sounds
• Download movie to computer
• QuickTime® download from Internet
• Digital camcorders
• Tapes
• DVD
• Built-in hard drives