You will learn where to find all lesson materials on the Apple Web Site and how to use them for home practice and review. Prerequisite: none
4-session class, 2 days a week for 2 weeks
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m., Room 11
September 28, 30, October 5, 7
Instructors: Staff

CM054: Using the Best of iPhoto 6 and Picasa 3 to Touch-up Your Photos
iPhoto is part of Apple’s iLife suite. It comes installed on all new Macs; if you want to upgrade, you must purchase the newer iLife suite. The OLLI Mac lab has 6 student Macs with iPhoto 6 (iLife 08) installed.

Picasa is free software from Google. It runs only on the newer Intel Macs. Picasa, like iPhoto, offers powerful photo organizing and editing tools. Also, like iPhoto, Picasa offers all you need to produce professional looking slide shows and movies that can be shared with friends and family through the Internet or on CDs and DVDs. The OLLI Mac lab has 2 student Intel Macs with Picasa 3 installed.

While both programs can be used to accomplish very similar results, they each have tools lacking in the other and do some task differently**. In this class you will learn the differences between the two programs relative to photo touch-up and how to use each. You may find that you will want to have both programs installed on your home Mac, preferring to use one program over the other for specific photo touch-up tasks.

(**For one of the biggest differences between the two programs, not covered in this class, see the Session 2 class: CM058: Another Way to Easily Organize and Sort Your Photos the Picasa Way)

Prerequisite: basic+ Mac user or instructor approval
4-session class, 2 days a week for 2 weeks
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:15 p.m., Room 11
September 28, 30, October 5, 7
Instructors: Staff

CM056: Digital Camera to Photo Albums, iPhoto Applied**
Save your family photos for posterity. Have you ever wanted to find out what you can do with those boxes of family photos or the trip that you just took?  Learn how to arrange your photos and make displays, slideshow, albums and emails using iPhoto.  Learn to enhance, scan and save your treasures.
Prerequisite: basic+ Mac user or instructor approval
4-session class, 2 days a week for 2 weeks
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 1:00 p.m., Room 11
October 27, 29, November 3, 5
Instructors: Bev Simmons, Bebe Pollack
**The costs of CM020 and CM056 are $20 each; taken together the cost is $35

CM034: How to Easily Make Lists That Meet Your Needs
Bento by FileMaker is an inexpensive ($50), easy to use, personal database program that is good for constructing lists for organizing home, work, or school tasks. If you used and have Appleworks databases and spread sheets, Bento will import your information and provide you with an up to date application program for hosting your old data records. If you are new to Macs relative to Appleworks, but want the simplicity and ease of use of an application like Appleworks, Bento may be for you. Learn how to make databases of information for: (1) address and phone lists that include other useful information, (2) home inventories for insurance purposes (it will even catalog and include photos of your items), and (3) even more.
Prerequisite: basic+ Mac user or instructor approval
4-session class, 2 days a week for 2 weeks
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:15 p.m., Room 11
October 26, 28, November 2, 4
Instructors: Bob Newcomb, Staff

CM057 Using Photo Shop Elements 6 to Fix your Photos
Adobe® Photoshop® Elements 6 software combines power and simplicity so you can tell great stories with your photos — and it works with iPhoto. Make your photos look their best with step-by-step editing assistance and amazing compositing tools. Share your stories in creative ways in scrapbook pages, greeting cards, photo books, and more. And easily find and view all your photos.

While Photoshop® Elements does more than just edit photos, in this class the emphasis is on editing. You will learn how to touch-up old photos, how to add objects to a photo, and how to remove objects from a photo. In the course of doing these tasks, you will use layers to facilitate your photo editing and learn how the use of layers helps in editing.
Prerequisite: intermediate Mac user or instructor approval
8-session class, 2 days a week for 4 weeks
Mondays and Wednesdays, 10:00 a.m. Room 11 (Blue Book is incorrect)
October 12, 14, 19, 21, 26, 28, November 2, 4,
Instructors: Staff

CM058: Another Way to Easily Organize and Sort Your Photos the Picasa Way
Picasa is free software from Google. It’s very good, but it runs only on the newer Intel Macs. The OLLI Mac lab has 2 student Intel Macs with Picasa 3 installed.

Picasa, like iPhoto, offers powerful photo organizing and editing tools. But unlike iPhoto, Picasa does not store your photos inside its program in its own custom library as iPhoto does. Rather, Picasa contains a powerful database program that will catalog and track all or selected groups of graphics on your computer, even the photos in your iPhoto library. For some, Picasa’s method is a major advantage. But you can have both. Picasa works in parallel with iPhoto and does not affect iPhoto’s operation in any way.

CM042: How to Create Your Own Web Site
Do you have children or grandchildren in other parts of the country or even around the world in other countries that you would like to share family pictures with? The solution may be to have your own personal web site. Come to this class to learn how to create and use a web site for sharing family and travel photos strictly among those you choose. For illustration, Louie will show you how he created his exclusive web sites and how he uses them. Then in class, he will help you get started in creating your own web site for sharing photos with others. These web sites can be free of cost.
Prerequisite: intermediate Mac user or instructor approval
4-session class, 2 days a week for 2 weeks
Mondays and Wednesdays, 1:15 p.m., Room 11
November 9, 16, 18, the 4th date to be determined
Instructor: Louie DeArman, staff

Since this is the Christmas season, If you are thinking about a new computer for yourself or a family member, come in for a paper listing questions to consider when buying a new computer. If you decide on a Mac, there are also 2 alternative recommendations included.
NOTE: The Lab may close-up shop at 11:30 a.m. if nobody comes in for help!
Fridays, 10:30 a.m.–Noon, Room 11
November 20, December 4, 11
Instructors: Gary Bates, Staff