Organizing and Editing your photos with Picasa (West - 10:00am and 1:00pm)

Picasa is a free photo editing and organizing software from Google. We will show you how to download and install the program on your computer.

• Importing your photos

• Organizing you photos

  • Managing Folders

  • Creating Albums

• Renaming and deleting your photos

• Emailing your photos

• Backing up your photos

• Editing your photos

  • Cropping

  • Removing Red eye

  • Adjusting color and contrast

  • Retouching

• Uploading Photos and Video to a Web Album

• Printing at home and on-line

Working with RAW images (West - 11:00am)

• Overview of file formats
• How does RAW differ from JPEG?
• Do I need RAW
• What advantages does working with RAW give me?
• What software do I need

Composition (West - 12:00pm)

• The quickest and easiest way to improve your composition (rule of thirds)

• Sometimes less is more (move in and fill the frame with your subject)

• Using lines, diagonals and patterns

• Portrait or Landscape orientation?

• Show depth / show scale

• If you're serious, this is the one tool to have

Adobe Lightroom Intro (West -2:00pm)

• What will Lightroom do for me

• The Lightroom modules

• The real power of Lightroom – non destructive editing

• Workflow basics

• Accessories for the traveler

• Splitting your liability and protecting your images

• Do I check it or carry it

• Traveling to extremes with my camera