Bring out the best in your images! Whether you’re making quick fixes or detailed enhancements, Adobe's Photoshop Elements 9 provides the tools you need to achieve high-quality results. If you’re a novice with no photo-editing experience or you want to upgrade skills you learned in an earlier version of Elements, this course is for you.

As you master this popular software, you'll learn to edit images on your computer, correct flaws, enhance your final product, create simple art projects, prepare images for email and the Web, and organize your images so you can keep track of them. It’s fun and easy, and you'll see how Photoshop Elements 9 gives you room to grow while letting you achieve high-quality results right away.

So bring your photography skills into the digital age and get ready to unlock the mysteries of Photoshop Elements 9. The hands-on, easy-to-follow exercises in this course will help you turn your photos into masterpieces and leave you with a great feeling of accomplishment!

A new section of each course starts monthly. If enrolling in a series of two or more courses, please be sure to space the start date for each course at least two months apart.

All courses run for six weeks, with a two-week grace period at the end. Two lessons are released each week for the six-week duration of the course. You do not have to be present when lessons are released. You will have access to all lessons until the course ends. However, the interactive discussion area that accompanies each lesson will automatically close two weeks after the lesson is released. As such, we strongly recommend that you complete each lesson within two weeks of its release.

The final exam will be released on the same day as the last lesson. Once the final exam has been released, you will have two weeks to complete all of your course work, including the final exam.

Adobe Photoshop Elements 9.0 for Windows/Mac (software must be installed and fully operational before the course begins); Windows XP w/ Service Pack 2 or 3/Vista/Windows 7 or Mac OS X, 10.5.8 or v10.6; Internet access; e-mail; and the Internet Explorer or Netscape or Firefox Web browser; Note: This course is written for the Windows version of the software. Mac students are welcome, but will need to make standard Windows/Mac keystroke conversions. Teaching staff has Mac software and equipment available and can help troubleshoot with Mac students to complete course material if necessary.

This course includes a knowledgeable and caring instructor who will guide you through your lessons, facilitate discussions, and answer your questions. The instructor for this course will be Beverly Schulz.

Beverly Schulz is a freelance photographer and a graduate of the New York Institute of Photography's Professional Photographer's program. She teaches a number of classes in digital photography and has more than 25 years of classroom instruction experience. Her writing and photography have been published in a number of magazines. She has traveled extensively and participated in onsite photography workshops as well as independent photo quests. In addition to teaching and photographic work, she provides consulting services for digital photographers and clients.

“ This course has been very helpful. My pictures look much better because of what I've learned. ”

“ This course was very informative and easy to follow. I'm looking forward to Photoshop Elements 9 Part 2! ”

“ Thank you for teaching this class. I have had the program for quite a while, but couldn't figure out how to use it. The step-by-step teaching and assignments helped me to learn and understand the different tools, and opened up to me some of what Photoshop Elements can do. Thank you so very much. ”

“ I thought this was a great course. I had a book but this just filled in what I questioned in the book I have. This course explained things better so I could understand my tools better. ”

“ The course material was concise and easy to follow. The instructors know the software very well and are able to pass that knowledge on to the students. They gave more information than any manual on Photoshop Elements 9. I look forward to taking the sequel to this course and would recommend it to anyone. ”

“ Thank you so much. I am new to Photoshop Elements and was lost when I started. I am so grateful for all the help and the experience you have given me. It has made Photoshop Elements so much easier to understand. I will be taking the next step up to learning Photoshop Elements, with Part 2. Thank you again. ”

“ Although I have been a fairly avid amateur photographer for years, this was my first exposure to working with Photoshop Elements. It was also my first "online" course experience. Both aspects went far beyond my expectations. The course was written at a level that made me feel comfortable . . . not so technical as to be confusing; yet not so basic as to be "spoon feeding" me. It was clear, precise and, just as importantly, written in a conversational manner, which made it a pleasurable experience. I had several questions during the course, including a real "mental block" on my part. In each instance, the responses were timely, informative and it was apparent to me that the course instructor (Beverly) and the teaching assistant (Eric) sincerely were interested in helping me. Very impressive. I feel that I now have a very strong Photoshop Elements foundation to build upon. While a course such as this could not cover everything that Photoshop Elemelnts can do, it did cover a large sampling of the program. It also gave me the confidence to experiment and try things on my own. Bottom line . . . great experience and looking forward to learning more! ”

“ This course was everything I had hoped it would be, and more! I am by no means an expert at this point, but I am very strongly motivated to go back and redo those lessons that did not come easy to me, until I have mastered them! Even though I had to redo some parts of them several times, once I got it, I was thrilled and could hardly wait to move forward. The instructor's approach and language were very comfortable for me to work with; I never felt bad about not understanding something the first time. Her encouragement to do it again was just the right kind of challenge I needed. I look forward to taking additional courses from Beverly Schulz. I would also like to thank Eric for his quick response to a couple of questions I submitted in the discussion format. It was good to know that he and your staff were just a click away to getting help if I got into real trouble. In sum - A GREAT EXPERIENCE!!!!! ”

“ I have been trying to teach myself Photoshop Elements since version 3. As with other software, I only learned what I needed immediately and never succeeded in learning to manipulate images with any degree of control or comfort. This course taught me more in six weeks than I learned on my own in six years! The course was very clear, thorough and well-paced for a working adult. I'm signing up for the level II course. ”

“ Thank you very much. I have learned so much. I took a course before and I had no idea what the teacher was talking about. I could not understand anything about layers. I had to drop the class. Now after this course I no longer have a great fear of layers. Thank you again. I look very forward on taking another one of your classes. ”