I will be teaching at the Canton Museum of Art – my home away from home as a child and the place I learned to love a printing press (my dad did all the printing when I was growing up on the little press in the basement – then, when they moved from the Case Mansion to the Cultural Center, he did it in the “back”, that smell, ahhh, happiness… yes) and appreciate good coffee, fresh clay, and playing hide and seek in the permanent collection.? It was a great place to grow up… I still call it the Canton Art Institute, Museum of Art sounds… more refined, but… just… not right.? Perhaps I will grow into it…

Here is my class schedule for the winter at the Museum.

ABC’s (Artist’s Business Cards)
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A1 Begins 10/17
Experiment with Photoshop or Photoshop Elements and make your own business cards. For beginning and intermediate students.

Create Greeting Cards
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A2 Begins 10/31
Use Photoshop Photoshop Elements to create unique greeting cards and postcards. For beginning and intermediate students.

Photoshop (Photoshop Elements)? Image Basics
1 Saturday 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A3 11/21
Learn to get the most out of your files WPA! (WebPrintArt!) This is a great course for scrap-booking! For beginning and intermediate students.

Drawing & Painting in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements)
2 Saturdays 12:30 ? 3:00 pm, Room 102
A-P4A4 12/5
Experiment with drawing and painting techniques in Photoshop (Photoshop Elements). For intermediate students.

To sign up for any of the classes: call the Museum at 330-453-7666
For questions and requirements (software/computer) call Li at 760-908-8665.

Here is the link for the Photowalk site and a video explaining it:

http://worldwidephotowalk.com/

We ride the trains to the Pix!

The Cuyahoga Valley Scenic Railroad will be our ride to our walk.? Here is a link to the Akron Walk:

http://worldwidephotowalk.com/akron-oh-usa/

If any of my students want to come, and shoot, let me know and we can ride together.

The Magic of the Square Bracket

You have to fall in love with your keyboard sometime, so let this be the day!? To the right of the letter P are the Bracket Keys, they are called the Square Bracket and the Curly Bracket.? You can re-size your brushes in both Photoshop and Elements by using these handy keys.? The [ bracket will make your brush get smaller and the ] will make it larger.? This is perfect for selecting and drawing.

To try it:? Open a Photo, choose a brush, fill it with a color by clicking on your color box and choosing a good contrasting color, Draw, Stop, Press on the Bracket Keys, draw again, Voila!

Bracket Trivia from Wikipedia

Square Brackets [? ]

• Square brackets are mainly used to enclose explanatory or missing material usually added by someone other than the original author, especially in quoted text.[3] Examples include: ?I appreciate it [the honor], but I must refuse?, and ?the future of psionics [see definition] is in doubt?.
• The bracketed expression [sic] is used to indicate errors that are ?thus in the original?; a bracketed ellipsis [...] is often used to indicate deleted material; bracketed comments indicate when original text has been modified for clarity: ?I?d like to thank [several unimportant people] and my parentals [sic] for their love, tolerance [?] and assistance [emphasis added]?.
• Square brackets are used in mathematics in a variety of notations, including standard notations for intervals, commutators, the Lie bracket, and the Iverson bracket.
• Square brackets can also be used in chemistry to represent the concentration of a chemical substance or to denote a complex ion.
• Square brackets (called move-left symbols or move right symbols) are added to the sides of text in proofreading to indicate changes in indentation:

Curly brackets or braces { }

• Curly brackets (also called braces, or “squiggly brackets”) are sometimes used in prose to indicate a series of equal choices: ?Select your animal {goat, sheep, cow, horse} and follow me?.
• They are used in specialized ways in poetry and music (to mark repeats or joined lines). The musical terms for this mark joining staves are accolade and ?brace?, and connect two or more lines of music that are played simultaneously.[8] In mathematics they delimit sets. In many programming languages, they enclose groups of statements. Such languages are therefore called curly bracket languages.

• Indian programmers often use the name ?flower bracket?.

This is the Photoshop tip for Wednesday the 1 of July.