Tutorials

All tutorials from previous website to be imported below

Basic General Knowledge – Beginners

1 Storing and retrieving files

• a. The importance of a filing system.
• b. Catalogue systems (Lightroom etc.) and how they work

2 JPEG or RAW

3 Batch renaming of files

4 Preparing images for submission

5 Understanding Image Size and Resolution

6 Preparing PDI Images.

• a. In Photoshop
• b. In Lightroom Classic

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Creating Collages

• Creating a Collage in Lightroom – Kevin Walters
• Photoshop Layer Basics Creating a Collage – Kevin Walters

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High and Low Key Photography

• High and Low Key in Photoshop – Mike Clatworthy
• Low Key in Photoshop – Mike Clatworthy
• Creating a keyline in Photoshop – Mike Clatworthy
• Part 1 Introduction – Kevin Walters
• Part 2 Basic Camera Controls and Exposure Triangle – Kevin Walters
• Part 3 Table Top Studio – Kevin Walters
• Part 4 Tones, Tonality and the Histogram – Kevin Walters
• Part 5 Stupid Camera and the Zone System – Kevin Walters
• Part 6 Shooting High Key and Low Key – Kevin Walters

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Photoshop

1. Use of Transform- Mike Clatworthy- Mike Clatworthy
2. Black and White Conversion Tips – Mike Clatworthy
3. Dramatic Skies with Grey Layer – Mike Clatworthy
4. Dust Spot Removal – Mike Clatworthy
   

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Pictures to Exe by Peter Fry

1. Preparation.
2. A Basic Slideshow.
3. Adding a title
4. Showing panoramas – Part 1
5. Showing panoramas – Part 2
6. Creating Movement
7. Creating a third image – Part 1(in Photoshop)
8. Creating a third image – Part 2(in Photoshop)
9. Adding Audio – Part 1
10. Adding Audio – Part 2

In conversation two useful addresses were mentioned –
Musopen and Free Stock Music as a sources for Royalty Free music and Faststone for resizing images.

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Word’s Picture Format by Sarah Drew

Intro to Word’s Picture Format Tutorials

1. Word’s Picture Format – Basics
2. Word’s Picture Format – Layers
3. Word’s Picture Format – Triptychs
4. Word’s Picture Format – Collages

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Website Banner Photographs

Instructions for creating a website banner photograph can be found by opening the following link –

Banner Photograph Instructions

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Jeff Lang Trophy: Panel of Three Examples

What is a panel in photography?

A Panel of Three is a set of pictures which when presented together tell a story or have a visually linking theme. They will be presented and judged as a complete set of 3 prints.  The set of 3 prints should ideally have a visual flow through left to right and have a visual balance to the set of 3.

The following members images are from the 2023 Jeff Lang Competition.

Allen Willcox: Panel of Three

Brian Howell: Coming, Going, Gone!

Clive Edwards: Invite to Winter Woodland Walk

Dennis Russ: I See You

Dot Beddoes: My Flower Garden – White Rose, Tulip, Aliium

Janet Francis: The Old Chapel Door

Liz Clayton: Lines In The Sand

Mark Clayton: Neath Canal

Wendy Jones: Every Day…Living With Depression