What're your top 10 Quick Class Wishes?

[SuzanneCWalker]

So, as we continue to add to the Quick Classes (and to the UNIVERSITY!!!!!1 WOOOHOO!), we'd love to know some of the topics you're interested in learning more about - either through the self-paced Quick Classes, or through DSP University Classes (coming SOOOOOOON!). What are you interested in learning more about?!

[Emma]

PHOTOGRAPHY! My photos really S(#&*#(CK! They make or break a layout...my sister posted an awesome layout several months ago, but then sent me another copy with a differnt photo Plopped in, it turned from awesome into nothin' special real quick!

COMPOSITION! I have such a hard time arranging things on a page. I know that graphic designers follow guidelines and intelligently break rules. I'm clueless, and it shows on lots of my stuff :eek:

GETTING PUBLISHED! I wanna join the club! We need to have some tutorial about the various methods to submit layouts for lazy girls like me!

That's my top 3 for now... :)

[shirleyb]

I'd have to agree -- photography, composition - what makes one LO really rock, and another ho-hum.

Shadows - I know this is the key to making things look realistic, but how much, and how dark, and how soft?

[luvsPSE]

Another site I frequent (paper scrapping) is so big on design principles and I am learning a lot. Oddly, I find design even more challenging in my digital scrapping than I do with paper. Color theory...triangular relationships between elements (or photos) on the page...designing with fonts.... I know, I don't want much!! :p

[shirleyb]

One other thing, and this probably sounds kind of stupid, but cropping. What is the rule of thirds, and where do you decide to crop to make your photos interesting?

[Yvette]

Realistic Bows - I just cannot seem to get this right!

[shirleyb]

Yvette,
Have you seen the tutorial that Cheryl Barber posted on the elements group for bows? It's so simple and realistic.
Shirley

[elizabethlmccoy]

Fibers & Torn paper (For PSE not PS) I've found alot of tuts for PS but when I try and translate them to PSE they don't work right. It'd be nice to just start with the right (specific) instructions to begin with. :)

[susan]

Composition and color theory are my biggest hurdles. I am so overwhelmed by some of the stuff I see you guys post that I haven't posted to the gallery.

Susan

[Tiffany]

I also would like more PSE tutorials (echoing Elizabeth's sentiments). I'd love a tut on brushes in PSE - I tried to adapt the PS tutorial and managed to get close with workarounds, but so many of the PS options are not available in PSE.

Tiffany

[canay]

Photography and Shadows!!!!!

I notice that the layouts that are awesome start with an awesome picture! My pictures seem so blah to me. I'm starting a digital photography class at LVSOnline in May. I bet scrappers here would love to learn some photography tips to help in their layouts.

Sometimes when I add a drop shadow to an element, the element sort of sits there with a dark edge around it. I want my elements and text to "pop" off the page! A class on offsets, opacity, blur, color of shadow, etc. would be great!

Thanks,

Canay

[Lauren]

Im hosting just such a class - check the calendar - Sunday at 8pm - its called Depth of field but its basically how to make your subject pop out of a blah photo!!!

[Amber]

Canay- Im taking that same digital photography class! Im really excited about it!

Ok- so Im not sure what exactly to call this but I would love to learn to make LO's like those done by Carver (Veronica) at SBB. I know it starts with a collage- but I want to know how to apply all of those filters, etc to get that look.

More tutorials on how to make elements and a complete page set.

Ive seen some references to using masks in LO's- I have no idea what this is. Maybe some classes on that!

Amber

[Mike Wozowski]

using brushes ... i never have ... don't know how!

making cute (cool) liscense plate thingies like lauren did for SK8TRBOY

and probably lots more.

[lauraloub]

When I started and was using Photoshop Elements I found a good tutorial changing a color photograph to a black and white sketch. Then I changed to Photoshop CS and can't follow the tutorial...the two programs are too different. I don't want to put PSE back on the computer just to do sketches. Someone must know how to create the effect in PS-CS that is just as effective.

Laura Lou

[Emma]

Laura, post a link to the tutorial. I can't think of a reason a PSE tutorial can't work in PS, so it's probably just a simple terminology fix, hopefully :D I'm always on the lookout for a better pencil sketch technique, would love to see it!

[Timmysmum]

Photo resoration.

I have many terrible quality old photos and would love to do a class on cleaning up effectively not just trial and error. Particularly faded spots.
Sue

[Angela]

More photography Suzanne!!! I agree that the best LO's have fantastic photo's, but I would also love to be able to do LO's like AlohaMamma, they look fantastic! Not sure what she does, but I want to do it too!!!!

[leah]

Elements of design and how to effectively use a tablet.
Also something about using brushes in PSE (or is that already incorporated into something else?). I keep hearing talk about making brushes, but I don't even know what that means.

[txminx]

Using Actions in PSE

Cleaning up REALLY bad photos

Create a theme kit

[nclauri]

I agree with Leah on Brushes. I played with it a few times and was amazed. I am sure I am not even coming close to the potential. I have PSE 2.

[bpalmer]

More photography classes!!! :D
I'd also love an advanced class for making elements in PSE. HINT! HINT! Emma! :D