Author: ksccc

Using an External Flash.

This video deals with the basics of flash:

And now, here are those same principles applied to real world settings:

Phil Tughan

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Monthly Meeting January 5th

The next Camera Club meeting with be held on Friday, January 5th at 9:15 .am.

Our meeting will include:

  • Slide show of Member Images from the Pictures that Tell a Story assignment
  • Phil’s Tip of the Day on External Flash
  • Members’ videos
  • Questionnaire Q&A
  • Review of Chosen Photos
  • Announcements and Closing Remarks

Your images for the assignment must be emailed by noon on Friday, December 29th to be included in the slide show. For details on how to submit photos including formats and titles go to our Galleries page.

Ron Pierce has organized a Winter Photo Challenge which runs from January 1st to February 23rd.

The next assignment is  Just the Three of Us and pictures from this assignment will be shown at the February 2nd meeting.

See you at the meeting.

Adobe Sale

If you’re interested in buying or upgrading Adobe Photoshop Elements for image editing or Adobe Premiere Elements for video editing then this sale is for you. Until January 7th you can get either program for $69.99US (regular price $99.99US) or a package of both programs for $99.99US (regular price $149.99US).

If you’re not sure you can download the full featured 30 day free trial of Photoshop Elements or the free trial of Premiere Elements and try it out for 30 days. Note that you do have to create a free Adobe account to download either program.

The Kanata Seniors Council Tech Tutors offers one-on-one tutoring on Photoshop Elements for $20 for 3 hours or $8 for one hour.

Website Update

We are reviewing and upgrading our website.
This will be happening over the next few months, and will include receiving and incorporating input from all club members as appropriate.
Should you have any suggestions on our website please let your Executive know.
Email suggestions to us here with the words “WEBSITE” in the subject line.

Questionnaire

A questionnaire has been created to provide feedback from Kanata Seniors Centre Camera Club members which will help determine content for future meetings and workshops.

This questionnaire was available at the meeting on January 5th. Copies are also available here, and at the Kanata Seniors Centre front desk.

Completed questionnaires can be dropped off at the Kanata Seniors Centre before January 15th or at the meeting on January 5th.

Thank you for your participation.

Your Camera Club Executive

Add Rain to an Image

Stormy Weather was the recent monthly photo topic. Amy Lo had taken this picture:Original - Rain free

but it didn’t match with the topic so she added rain using Photoshop Elements version 11 and got this picture:Slippery Rain by Amy Lo

which she submitted. You can click on the above thumbnails to see larger versions of both images. If you want to see the intermediate steps, you can download Amy’s Photoshop Elements .psd file by clicking here then clicking on the blue Download button.

Amy used the technique shown in this video tutorial which she summarized as follows:

  1. Open picture with Photoshop Elements
  2. Create new layer and name it Rain
  3. Paint layer with black
  4. Go to Filter, then Add Noise and set Amount: about 30 percent, Gaussian and Monochromatic
  5. Go to Filter then Gaussian blur and set Radius: about 0.5 pixels
  6. Using the Layers Menu and while pressing <Alt> add a Levels adjustment layer
  7. Make sure to click “Use previous layer to create clipping mask”
  8. Adjust the white and black level triangles until happy with the # of dots
  9. Go back to the Rain layer and select Filter then Blur then Motion. Try Angle: 60 or 75 and Distance: 15 or 20 pixels.
  10. Change the blending mode of the Rain layer to Screen and keep adjusting the level to get satisfactory rain effect.

Thank you Amy for sharing.