Picture Editing Level One introduces you to the basic skills of editing pictures.
Picture Editing Level Two follows on, making use of multi-layer image editing that allows you to build up a picture with several component images, text and drawn shapes.
These courses are for users of laptop and desktop computers that have a modern version of Microsoft Windows.
Picture Editing Level One
Duration and cost of the course
- There are 5 two-hour lessons.
- Cost: $50 which includes the manual.
You will receive …
- the manual “Picture Editing Level One – with Faststone”
You will learn how to…
- Create a filing system for storing images
- Open a photo and image editing program (e.g. FastStone)
- Open a photo in that program
- Save the picture under a different file name
- Adjust the brightness, colour and contrast of an image
- Rotate and flip images
- Straighten the horizon
- Crop and resize images
- Add text to an image
- Save the newly edited picture
- Make a self-running slideshow
Picture Editing Level Two
Duration and cost of the course
- There are 5 two-hour lessons.
- Cost: $50 which includes the manual.
You will receive …
- the manual “Picture Editing Level Two – with Paint.NET”
You will learn how to …
- Link Paint.NET to FastStone Image Viewer
- Create, select, rename, hide, reveal and merge several layers in a picture
- Select part of a picture for editing
- Use “modes” to blend layers artistically
- Change the background of a picture
- Adjust the hue and saturation
- Save pictures as multi-layer and single layer files
- Create montages
- Use the rotate, zoom and pan tool to alter proportions
- Add text, using shadow effects
- Sharpen and blur edges within pictures
- Combine features of one photo in another
- Create an “out of bounds” picture
- Change the colour of just one part of a photo
- Add a new sky to a photo