Amersham Photographic Society

An excellent start to the 2008-9 season with 27 attending. FILTERS The Photoshop beginners tutorial was on the subject of Filters and Sharpening. As an example of a third party filter (or plugin) I demonstrated Kaleidoscope 2.1 from Mehdi. Like all such filters the single program file must be placed...

We're approaching a 3 page Attendance List with 30 at the digital group this month. QUESTION RECEIVED - should a Sony Trinitron CRT monitor be replaced? On the positive side: traditional CRTs can produce very natural colour. On the negative side: CRTs need more regular profiling. Focus, alignment an...

28 attended another busy evening. NEWS Two items of news this month, both relating to Adobe; a) Lightroom Ver 2 Beta is available for us to play 'find the bugs'. b) Perhaps more interestingly Adobe have announced Photoshop Express which will be a free network-based image storage and manipulation app...

A very respectable 25 turned out for the digital group this month. Many thanks to Peter Jones who delegated for me last month - he's doing such a good job that I may go away even more often. WHITE BALANCE Thanks also to Mike Hynes who gave us an expose on White Balance; Although we can set our camer...

Just to expand on a couple of processes I prefer in P/S: Normally as Steve says you rarely paint as such in P/S however on occasions it can be useful e.g. rescuing highlights; you may find this method lacking with totally burnt out highlights (i.e R255,G255,B255) but it is still worth a try: using t...

27 members were keen to beat off Christmas cabin-fever this evening. NEWS; New rules about carrying Lithium Ion batteries on flights to and within the USA see here EPSON PRINTERS; The current enthusiast photo printers from Epson are - For A4; R800 - £200, 7 pigment inks + Gloss Optimiser, CD printin...

Hello there.

If you have any general photographic or Photoshop-related queries, post them here and I will attempt to answer them if another APS member doesn't get there first.

Cheers, Steve B