“From Photo to DVD – Preserving Those Precious Memories” covers three primary topics.  First, we’ll explore some techniques and strategies for taking better digital photos.  We’ll take a moderately deep dive into portrait and landscape photography and an overview look at sports, low-light and underwater photography.  Next, we’ll explore the editing of photos using Adobe’s Photoshop Elements.  We begin simply with things like cropping, light and color adjustments.  By the time we’re finished we’ll have explored photo merges, panoramas, special effects and even creating your own images from scratch.  We conclude the course with a look at creating high quality videos and DVDs with Adobe’s Premiere Elements.  Again we start simply with things like single-threaded timelines, music, narration and transitions.  By the time we 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 with digital photography, but seeking to improve their skills.  No prior knowledge of photo or video editing is required.  Similarly, Adobe’s Photoshop and Premiere Elements are not required.  The download and installation of the free trial 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 will likely challenge you within every section to expand your understanding and explore the world around you.  As Rick is known to say, “have some fun out there, but Keep On Learning!”