Current Class Offerings
Photoshop Class Agenda (3-day course)
Day 1: Digital Photography
Learn how to utilize your digital camera to its potential. This class covers a variety of topics including scanning and digitizing existing photos...
Day 2: Photo Editing
This class covers the basics of photo editing. Students learn about cutting, cropping, enhancing photo levels, and removing red eye, as well as other techniques for creating optimal photos.
Day 3: Output Techniques
The final product is what matters right? Learn how to create slideshows, top-notch prints and a variety of other output formats.
Windows XP for Beginners
Learning the fundamentals of your operating system, particularly of Windows XP, is invaluable. This class addresses general questions and goes into detail on more complicated subjects such as the significance/difference of Windows Explorer versus Internet Explorer. This class will teach you how to navigate the XP interface quickly and how to manage files and folders. You'll also learn how to manage specific XP features like Windows Firewall, Automatic Updates, System Restore and more. Finally, you'll learn how to kill processes and recover from deadly crashes.
Office for Beginners—Word, Powerpoint, Excel
Word—Learn the ins-and-outs of the most-used word processing program on the market including: navigating and selecting text, autocorrect and autotext, tracking changes, saving and printing documents, creating and using templates, character and paragraph formatting, using styles, working with tabs, inserting and formatting page numbers, introducing and formatting tables, form letters and much more.
Powerpoint—Creating professional presentations is easier with Powerpoint. This class offers an introduction to the interface, inluding: choosing a presentation template, adding text and images to a slide, manipulating layouts, using the drawing tools, working with clipart, pictures and shapes, saving a presentation and building a diagram, editing a slide master and title master, animating graphics and text and more.
Excel—Well-done spreadsheets help you organize, track, archive and project. The Excel workshop focues on navigating and adding workbooks and worksheets, sorting/filtering a list database, building formulas, formatting worksheets, calculating expenses, relative and absolute addressing, using the AutoSum function, creating a pivottable and pivotchart and much more.
Mac OSX for Beginners
Learn how use the multitude of Mac OSX features, from file management, preference customization, application installation and more. This class will cover the various incarnations of Mac OSX, with particular attention to the new features available on Tiger.
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Photoshop Class Agenda (3-day course)
Day 1: Digital Photography
Learn how to utilize your digital camera to its potential. This class covers a variety of topics including scanning and digitizing existing photos...
Day 2: Photo Editing
This class covers the basics of photo editing. Students learn about cutting, cropping, enhancing photo levels, and removing red eye, as well as other techniques for creating optimal photos.
Day 3: Output Techniques
The final product is what matters right? Learn how to create slideshows, top-notch prints and a variety of other output formats.
Windows XP for Beginners
Learning the fundamentals of your operating system, particularly of Windows XP, is invaluable. This class addresses general questions and goes into detail on more complicated subjects such as the significance/difference of Windows Explorer versus Internet Explorer. This class will teach you how to navigate the XP interface quickly and how to manage files and folders. You'll also learn how to manage specific XP features like Windows Firewall, Automatic Updates, System Restore and more. Finally, you'll learn how to kill processes and recover from deadly crashes.
Office for Beginners—Word, Powerpoint, Excel
Word—Learn the ins-and-outs of the most-used word processing program on the market including: navigating and selecting text, autocorrect and autotext, tracking changes, saving and printing documents, creating and using templates, character and paragraph formatting, using styles, working with tabs, inserting and formatting page numbers, introducing and formatting tables, form letters and much more.
Powerpoint—Creating professional presentations is easier with Powerpoint. This class offers an introduction to the interface, inluding: choosing a presentation template, adding text and images to a slide, manipulating layouts, using the drawing tools, working with clipart, pictures and shapes, saving a presentation and building a diagram, editing a slide master and title master, animating graphics and text and more.
Excel—Well-done spreadsheets help you organize, track, archive and project. The Excel workshop focues on navigating and adding workbooks and worksheets, sorting/filtering a list database, building formulas, formatting worksheets, calculating expenses, relative and absolute addressing, using the AutoSum function, creating a pivottable and pivotchart and much more.
Mac OSX for Beginners
Learn how use the multitude of Mac OSX features, from file management, preference customization, application installation and more. This class will cover the various incarnations of Mac OSX, with particular attention to the new features available on Tiger.
Sierra Tahoe Computers specializes in Virus/Spyware removal and prevention.
Come to us when you need to upgrade or repair a PC or Macintosh
We sell computers and offer onsite consultation and training classes.
