Ferguson Photography & Design
Adobe Photoshop Elements - Introduction: Sept 2026 Morning Class
You love your photos! Learn to use Photoshop Elements to show them off! Fix your photos, add artistic effects, and even combine images with Photoshop Elements!
Prerequisite: Digital Photo Basics, Computer Basics, or some basic computer skills.
5 Wednesdays
Sept 2 - 30, 2026
10AM - Noon
Conejo Valley Adult School, Thousand Oaks, CA Room #7b
Tentative schedule, you can't sign up for this class yet
Digital Photography - Introduction: Sept 2026 Afternoon Class
Learn the essential skills needed to get started with digital photography. Topics include camera controls, shooting modes, file formats, resolution, memory cards, electronic flash, white balance and downloading images to your computer. Additionally, course covers composition, simple enhancement, preparation for email or website, printers and selecting digital image-editing software.
Participants should bring their digital camera to class for picture taking. Please bring the instruction manual for your camera to the first class. If you do not yet own a digital camera, you are welcome to attend the first class before purchasing a camera.
Instructor: Tom Ferguson is both a commercial and fine art photographer. As a commercial photographer he shoots product, architecture and corporate portraiture. As a fine art photographer he has appeared in over 100 exhibitions nationwide.
4 Wednesdays
Sept 2 - 23, 2026
12:30pm - 3:00pm
Conejo Valley Adult School, Thousand Oaks, CA Room #7b
Tentative schedule, you can't sign up for this class yet
Adobe Photoshop Elements - Introduction: Jan - Feb 2027 Afternon Class
You love your photos! Learn to use Photoshop Elements to show them off! Fix your photos, add artistic effects, and even combine images with Photoshop Elements!
Prerequisite: Digital Photo Basics, Computer Basics, or some basic computer skills.
5 Wednesdays
Jan 6 - Feb 3, 2027
Noon - 2pm
Conejo Valley Adult School, Thousand Oaks, CA Room #7b
Tentative schedule, you can't sign up for this class yet
1025 Old Farm Rd
Thousand Oaks, CA 91360
805-497-2761
Near the 23 and the Janss Road exit in Thousand Oaks, CA
Conveniently close to Simi Valley, Moorpark, Westlake, Camarillo, Agoura Hills, Oak Park, Calabassas and the San Fernando Valley. "Introduction to Digital Photography" and "Intermediate Digital Photography" classes in Thousand Oaks, CA.
Class Handouts / Notes: If you are looking for Tom's class handouts, either for past students review or new students preview, they can be found here. Please note that these are class handouts from the classes at Conejo Valley Adult School in Thousand Oaks. They are not on-line tutorials, they are intended to accompany an in person class and lecture with student hands on experience.
Private Lessons
Private lessons in digital photography, lighting, alternative process printing and/or large format photography
are available in my Simi Valley studio. For most students, the Conejo Valley Adult School classes in Thousand Oaks will be a better choice.
Please contact me at 805-577-6914 or use my
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The school is a former public school campus in Thousand Oaks, CA. With nine classroom buildings, it offers a huge variety of adult classes, from vocational to ESL to community enrichment (such as Tom's photography classes) to technology (such as Tom's Photoshop Elements classes). Open to all students over 18 years of age. The school started in 1974, and is a part of Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD).