Be Smart

© 2008 John Bentham

Are you "tech help" for your Mom and it's driving you bonkers? "Dear, just show me how to re-size this photo so I can send it to Aunt Patti." "Why are my photos always so dark?" "What's this Photoshop everyone's talking about?"

Then give yourself and your Mom a gift of a digital camera class through Panasonic's Digital Photo Academy, a series of nationwide digital photography workshops, which is offering a Mother’s Day special so when a course gift certificate is purchased for a mother, the gift giver can attend the same class with Mom at no additional cost. This two-for-one Mother’s Day special can be purchased by calling 1-877-DP-ACAD-1 or just go to their information page at Digital Photo Academy which details the three course levels available, and view course schedules and locations, hours, and instructors. (Courses are available in Atlanta, Boston, Chicago, Cleveland, Dallas, Denver, Detroit, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, Minneapolis, New York, Orlando, Philadelphia, Phoenix, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Tampa and Washington, D.C.). And no, you don't have to own a Panasonic camera - any digital camera will do. (Though check out our Mother's Day give-away in this week's Popgadget Drop newsletter, where we're giving away a Panansonic Pink Lumix digital camera for some lucky Mom, or me, if I figure out how to rig the contest.)