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Tutorial Night - Photo Workshop Tuesday December 2
Have you been having a problem getting that photo to look the way you visualize it? Are you having a problem with your editing software and don't understand how to make it do what you want? Are you using Adobe Photoshop CS2 or CS3, or maybe Adobe Lightroom or Lightroom 2?
We all have those problems. It takes time to develop experience in these programs where you feel comfortable with them. On Tuesday, December 2, 2008 we will try to help you with those problems. The meeting will be held at TAACCL, The Arts Alliance Center at Clear Lake, at 7:00pm.
We will set up the projector and have 2 or 3 laptops hooked up for show and tell. We will have Photoshop CS2 and CS3. We will also have Adobe Lightroom and Lightroom 2. We need you to provide the photos. Bring as many as you like but we would like to help as many people as possible. If there are more than enough to get through the night we may stop each person at two. We will get through as many of them as we can in the allotted time.
If you have been working on a photo or two and just can't seem to get it lined out, bring it in. We will perform a general workflow on it and see where that gets us. If there are specific questions about a technique, we will try to answer your question that night onscreen. If we cannot get you an answer that night we will make a log of questions and present the answers at another meeting.
We are not experts, but we will do our best to help with the knowledge we do have of the different versions listed above. Anyone who has skilled knowledge of these programs, and has the time, should come out that night to help.
Please bring your photos on CD, DVD, memory card or USB key. We would prefer it be in .psd format if you have already been working on it. This will allow us to see the different layers and adjustments you tried to make while processing the photos. Photoshop Elements also allows saving as a .psd file, and while we may not have that program, we can work that .psd in Photoshop.
Please bring the original file also. We will need it for the workshop.
Doug Haass BAPC VP and Program Chair
Program Night, Tuesday November 25
Please join us Tuesday night, November 25 at TAACCL at 7:00pm . The format for Tuesday night will be a little different from some of the other programs we have had this year. There will be a software, hardware and book review of the many items that are available to us as photographers.
This will include demos of available software presented onscreen using a digital projector. The hardware will include printers, external hard drives, portable drives, calibration tools and other devices. Many of you may have heard about some of the hardware or software that will be displayed. You may have questions about how they work, where they can be purchased, how will they work for my workflow, etc. Maybe you did not know who to talk to or were to shy to ask a sales person about them. We will try to answer some of those questions at this meeting.
It will be an informal meeting, where you will be able to move around the room taking your time looking at what is laid out on the tables. We will have a short session discussing the software we will present onscreen. I will have books and magazines on the tables to review and look over and will try to answer any questions you may have about them.
I will also give away several books as door prizes, all originally $35-$40 each, for those who attend the meeting. The following eight (8) books will be given away throughout the night:
Photoshop CS2 Speed Clinic by Matt Kloskowski; 50 Fast Photoshop CS Techniques by Gregory Georges; Photoshop CS2 Killer Tips by Scott Kelby & Felix Nelson; Photoshop CS2 Workflow the Digital Photographer's Guide by Tim Grey; Adobe Photoshop CS2 on Demand by Andy Anderson and Steve Johnson; The Photoshop CS2 Book for Digital Photographers by Scott Kelby; Real World Camera Raw with Adobe Photoshop CS by Bruce Fraser and finally Outdoor Photographer Landscape and Nature Photography with Photoshop CS2 by Rob Shepherd.
Many of the books listed are still very valid, even if you are now using Photoshop CS3 or CS4. There will be some features that are different but the information presented can still be used and applied to your photos.
In the past this was our Swap Meet night where we swapped photos with other members. So members are not cut out of the experience of presenting those photos to other members, please bring any photos you would like to display around the room for members and visitors to look at throughout the night.
Doug Haass
BAPC VP and Program Chair