Des Moines Area Community College.

Continuing Education

Digital Photography and Digital Video

Discover Digital Photography
Cost: $89
Digital photography, equipment, software, printing, Internet and email use for personal and commercial use.

Making Movies with Windows XP
Cost: $89
If you have Windows XP, you already have Microsoft Movie Maker, the program that makes creating movies fun and easy. You can edit your exisiting video to show only the best parts, and leave out the not-so-good parts. Add special effects, titles, credits, photos, background music, sound effects and more to turn your home video into truly entertaining digital movies.

Photoshop CS2, Intro to
Cost: $89
If you want to work with graphics, this hands-on, project-oriented course is filled with detailed step-by-step instructions you'll have no trouble following as you learn how to edit photos, create basic paintings, and prepare your images for printing. Discover how to improve photographs by removing flaws, correcting for poor exposure, or adding new elements. No prior artistic ability is required to take this course.

Photoshop CS2, Intermediate
Cost: $89
If you understand the basics of the Photoshop toolset, this course will help you explore new and better ways to create images, edit photos, and combine existing images in amazing ways.

Photoshop CS3, Intro to
Cost:  $89
This hands-on, project-oriented course is filled with detailed, step-by-step instructions you'll have no trouble following as you learn how to edit photos, create basic paintings, and prepare your imates for printing. Discover how to improve photographs by removing flaws, correcting poor exposure, etc.

Photoshop CS3, Intermediate
Cost:  $89
This course, for the student who already knows the Photoshop toolset, explores new and better ways to create images and edit photos. Students will explore the sophisticated layers features that allow users to combine images in amazing ways. Learn the secrets of professional image editing from a 2006-2007 nominee to the Photoshop Hall of Fame.

Photoshop CS3 for the Digital Photographer
Cost:  $89
Adobe Photoshop CS3 is a high-end software solution that provides support and specialized editing tools for digital photographers and graphic artists.  In this course, we’ll focus on how to select and use the professional techniques that are most helpful to photographers.  Designed for those with no image-editing experience, this class will take students from novices to accomplished users

Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Digital Photographer
Cost: $89
Bring out the best in your images!  Take control as you discover the features of this award-winning package specifically designed for photo enthusiasts.  Designed for those with no image-editing experience, this class will take you from novice to accomplished user.  Upgraders from earlier versions of Photoshop Elements are welcome as well.

Photoshop Elements 5.0 for the Digital Photographer II
Cost: $89
This course has many outstanding features for advanced photo editing. If you’ve already learned the basics of Photoshop Elements, this course will help you understand how to perform more sophisticated tasks, including detailed editing, building composite images, restoring old photos, and more. This course is for anyone who is already familiar with cropping, printing, and performing color adjustments.

Photoshop Elements Projects
Cost: $89
Take your Photoshop Element skills to the next level by working through 12 fun and exciting hands-on projects. You will repair an old photo, design custom greeting cards, create a photo collage, construct a panoramic photo, develop and illustrate your own newsletter, build graphics for the web and more!

Photographing People with Your Digital Camera
Cost: $89
Discover how to shoot faces, repair common problems, take professional portrait and formal group shots including action photography; creative ways to photograph children and babies.

Secrets of Better Photography
Cost: $89
Explore strategies and learn a variety of tricks to create excellent photographs in all types of situations as well as the basic technology that all cameras use and helpful information on exposure and lighting

Travel Photography for the Digital Photographer
Cost: $89
The lure of travel is surpassed only by the inevitable desire to bring home pictures and share your adventures. Discover the world through a photographer’s eye. This course will address the tools and tricks that enable digital photographers to capture scenes from around the world and bring them home. We’ll share various examples from destinations across the globe, and expand your knowledge of techniques for shooting digitally and working with the images after you get back.