Picture This: Introduction to Digital Photography and
Advanced Adobe Photoshop
The most powerful photo editing software available is Photoshop CS5. It is a $650 program, and is very complicated to learn. Its baby brother, Photoshop Elements 10, contains 90% of the features in CS5, but Elements 10 lists for $100, and is frequently on sale for about $70.
Picasa is an excellent alternative to Elements 10. Picasa is available for free at this website. Picasa is not as powerful as Photoshop Elements, but it is simpler to learn, and is a very capable program.
There are scores of companies that will print your digital photos for you. I have used all these companies, and have been happy with each:
My favorite book about PE10 is called the Missing Manual by Barbara Brundage. You can often find it at Borders, or you can get it at Amazon.
If you are going to change a white sky to a blue sky and add clouds, you will first need to download the cloud brushes.
If you'd like to download the photos to your computer that we used in class, please click here to find them.