COURSES OFFERED BY COMPUTER RESOURCE CENTER

Learn how to edit digital images, correct colors and red-eye, and even merge pictures. Session 1 focuses on learning to use the Photoshop tools and brushes, including dodge and burn, lasso, cloning, the healing tool, magic lasso, and many, many more.

Adobe's standard for “desktop publishing.” Useful for production of newsletters, brochures, posters, cards, books, etc., with the most popular design and printing tools available.

Introduction to Adobe's free-hand drawing program, working with "vector" graphics rather than pixel images. Learn how to use layers, paths, blend colors for shades.

Want to make smaller PDFs for fast online uploading, or higher-quality PDFs that print well? How about editing your PDFs, including adding comments and merging PDFs together? This session introduces Adobe Acrobat, the powerful software behind the Acrobat Reader.

How to use the ruler for tabs, indents, and margins. Advanced paragraph formats (line spacing vs. before/after spacing, keep with next, hyphenation, bullets and numbering). Learn to control page numbers and headers/footers with "sections."

Basic spreadsheet navigation, entering and editing data, formatting, and introduction to formulas and functions (simple math, sum, average). Covers working with multiple sheets and data sorting/filtering.

Learn to create a slide show for use as an onscreen or online computer presentation. Sessions starts with explaning the components of a slide, including layouts, handles, text tools, drawing tools, and autoshapes.

Relational database management that allows you to access information based on your structure. First session is an overview of database concepts and the construction of tables, including field properties.