Amersham Photographic Society

Many thanks as always to Steve for a highly informative evening. Thank you all of you for listening to my presentation. Laurie Turner made a very valid point from the front benches: local exposure control can also be carried out by selecting part of the image with the appropriate tool and feather he...

It was gratifying that many of you last Monday 18th February came up to me telling me that you had a go at using Layer Masks: Most of you are using layers so I am not going to carry on extolling the use of such, bear in mind the one caveat which is that if you have many image layers your file may us...

My (ahem) deliberate mistake has been spotted; I am grateful to SB; I am indebted to Malcolm for revealing his method of creating adjustment layers within Elements Version 8; for example open an image copy it to a new layer (Ctrl J); create a Levels ( or any other kind of layer) layer between the ba...

Many thanks to you all for making yesterday evening a great success in Steve’s absence; there was an excellent turnout, nice to see and meet many new faces and thank you all for your input particularly to Malcolm for his help and to Cheryl for keeping me well hydrated. Thanks all for your patience a...

Many thanks to SB as always for your time in preparing and presenting the digital evening. For my sins I am deputising for Steve whilst he is busy globetrotting and I will attempt to follow a similar format to Steve. Please bring any images you would like to discuss; if there aren't enough images I ...

I must get a life sometime, I have been working out how to embed a copyright symbol within my images similar to the outcome I achieve in CS: Open an image within Elements. Create a blank layer. Fill with white. Select the cookie cutter tool. From the shape applet choose the copyright symbol. Uncheck...

Members of the digital group may well be interested in this article: http://www.creativepro.com/article/out-of-gamut-thoughts-on-a-sharpening-workflow which analyses three possible phases of sharpening i.e. capture, creative and post; although it was written in 2003 it for me successfully discusses ...

more details on USM here: http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutor ... -usm.shtml

Peter Jones

Thank you all for attending and for your input; thanks also for bringing your images to share. In the beginners section we looked at filters and concluded that many filters were a throwback to the graphic design origins of Photoshop; however each of course to their own and some that are useful are G...

very amusing SB but true! I am sure that the membership will be amused at my antics; we aim to please!

Don't forget to bring plenty of images to discuss/ analyse/ make suggestions etc.

Peter Jones