Digital Photo Classes at CoCOA!

Beginner's Class: The Nuts and Bolts of Digital Photography
Dates and class schedule:
• Sept 4 Class Intro, the beginnings of digital vocabulary, and connecting your camera to your computer to upload photos, getting familiar with your camera.
• Sept 18 Working with image files, e-mailing photos, resolution, backing up your photos, long term storage, software and operating systems
• Oct 2 Organizing your photos and printing
• Oct 16 Digital Editing
• Oct 30 More digital editing
• Nov 13 Making postcards and Business cards
• Nov 27 Presenting you photos to the world!
Class Description This is a beginning class for those who would like to get more from their digital camera. We will start at the beginning and work as a group to learn the basics of photography in our digital age. Hopefully by the end of the class, you will be able to find your photos on your computer, know the basics of making them look a whole lot better, and have ideas on unique ways you can show your photos. We will move together as a group, spending more time where needed, and less where it's not. The above class schedule shows the approximate dates we will get to each subject.
Requirements: All demos assignments and so on will be presented in Adobe Photoshop Elements 5.0. You will probably be okay with Elements 4.0. But all image editing software is different, and the instructor most probably will not be able to help with other software such a photo-paint, and so on. You will need access to your own computer. A laptop computer that will run Elements that you can bring to class will be a big benefit.
Intermediate Class: Creative Digital Photography
Date and schedule:
Sept 11 Class Intro and Digital Exposure and sensor cleaning
Sept 25 RAW
Oct 9 White Balance
Oct 23 Digital Workflow
Nov 6 DAM! Digital Asset Management
Dec 4 Presenting Photography in the digital age
Dec 18 Color management
Class Description There was a time, not to long ago, when Digital made for simpler lives for us photographers. That period was short lived, and now gone. There is so much to know these days. And some things you think you can ignore... you might want to think again. Each of these classes is meant to be a quick but through introduction to a broad topic. Hopefully each class will raise a lot of questions about the subject, and make you want to learn more.
Class requirements: You will need your digital slr and a laptop computer with Adobe Photoshop CS2 (or later) that you can bring to class.
Special Class: Photography for people who paint
Date: Tuesday December 11, 6 to 9 pm
This is a special class for people who paint...and own a digital camera. I will be covering photography techniques you can use to improve your painting, such as: making digital submissions, perspective correction, moving and deleting objects, cleaning up skin tones, and much more!
Class Information
Pricing: I am keeping the costs of these classes as low as possible. One of the main reason they are lower than other like classes as you will have to bring your own equipment. You may pay by the month, or for the entire class and receive a small discount. Payment is due at class, before the class begins. The fee for either class is: $200, or $30 per session ($35 for drop ins).


Call Steve at 970.221.0363 or email steve.sjaphoto@gmail.com to register. There is a maximum of 10 and a minimum for 4 for each class.