We have the best pricing on our training than anyone else. Low overhead helps us to keep our pricing at a rate anyone can afford. Our comfortable environment is very conducive to an excellent learning experience, especially when you are being trained by an instructor with over 20 years of experience in Adobe Photoshop, from the very first version!
When you take our classes, you will have the opportunity to learn the tricks-of-the-trade, something you don't get in a college-sponsored continuing education course. We keep our class sizes small so that we can maximize your learning experience without the distraction of large class sizes. We just don't tell you to do such-and-such, we tell you WHY you do it, advantages and disadvantages, and HOW you would use that feature or effect on your pictures.
Even better, our classes go beyond the basics. We teach special effects classes, text effects classes, how to create your own brushes and stamps (for all you scrapbookers out there), and we teach scanning classes, too. We even have classes on working with digital cameras and RAW images. We are the TOTAL training source for digital imaging. We even assign homework!
If you have your own laptop, we ask that you bring it to work on. Working on your own equipment helps your learning curve tremendously and you have easy access to work on your own photos (otherwise, I have to ask you to burn your pics to a CD or copy to a flash drive so you can work on them on our systems, and it's just not the same beautiful experience). We are also occasionally known to serve chocolate.
Keep in mind, to work with Adobe Photoshop Elements 4/5, you need to be using Windows XP (Elements 4/5) or Mac OS 10.3 (Elements 4). You can download a free trial version from Adobe's web site [www.adobe.com] that will work for 30 days. Otherwise, the cost for the program is about $90, even cheaper if you are a student or faculty/staff ($69). Adobe has been doing digital color for 20 years. It is the Rolls-Royce of image editing programs. If you are using another image editing program, burn it and go buy Adobe Photoshop Elements 5. Now. Go! Run! And if you are a scrapbooker, take a plane! Adobe added features in PSE5 specifically for scrapbookers and you are going to love it. 'Nuff said.
TRAINING ROOM
About Me
- Vicki Conquest
- I offer courses in Adobe Photoshop Elements (from version 3 through 6). The courses are offered in my professional home training center, with all the equipment you would expect to find in a commercial training facility, and more. My goal in training is to allow the student to have exposure to the widest range of peripherals used in digital retouching and photo restoration without having to make the investment first. I’ll show you how to get the most out of your digital camera, scanning and printing equipment. I offer two-hour to four-hour classes that range between $25 to $60; one-on-one training at my center for $20 an hour and seminars and large groups by arrangement. Classes cover the basics to special effects, such as vignetting, to collaging images and text effects.