Waverley Camera Club

After a fun and largely successful year teaching Photoshop to our members, Warren is happy to say that the classes will continue in 2012. However there will be a change to the format, it will be tailored toward beginners only. The classes will be held once a month on the fourth Wednesday, with the first meeting on 25 January, 2012.

For this class a Beginner as obviously someone who has never used Photoshop or if you have tried using it and are:

• Overwhelmed by all the tools and functions
• You are not sure when to use one tool over another
• Can’t make proper masks
• Struggle with layers or don’t know what adjustment layers are
• Struggle with topics such as file size, RAW editing

Each month’s lesson will build on what was taught the previous month so hopefully by the end of the year you will have a good grasp of the fundamentals. This has been found to be a better approach than randomly doing topics based on issues people are having at the time.

For this to work:

• Each participant will need their own laptop with Photoshop installed. This is quite important as
  students this year that shared or did not have a laptop found it hard to keep up.

It is hoped that by the end of the year participants will:

• feel comfortable using Photoshop
• be able to look at an image and know what techniques to use to make them better
• know how to better evaluate an image
• improve the quality of their EDI and more importantly start producing better prints

Please contact Ian Hansen if you would like to participate.

Next Tuesday night in the craft room of the Mount Waverley Community Centre will be our end of year night.

On display will be our best images for open prints, monochome prints and open EDI entries and trophies will be awared for the top entry in each section. The trophies for aggregate points will also be awarded, as will the president’s trophy.

As always we ask that you bring your partners/loved ones and a small plate of food.

The October competition marked the last of our monthly competitions for the year. In the past we would have a November competition, but as the judging night was Melbourne Cup Day it was more difficult to find a judge and attendance was typically low. Coupled with us hosting the 4 Club competition at the end of October, the November competition was removed from the schedule.

Now, this does not mean that club members can sit idle, those that submitted an entry during the year can enter the end of year competition with three images in each of:

• Colour printed
• Monochrome printed
• Open EDI

The entry must have been entered into a 2011 monthly competition and in the same format. A print must have been previously entered as a print, and an EDI must have been previously entered as an EDI. An EDI cannot be printed and entered as a print, or vice versa.

Technically these entries are due on Tuesday 1 November 2011, but as we are not having a meeting that night, please bring your prints along to the 4 Club night on Tuesday 25 October. Email through the name and month that your EDI entries were entered previously. If you cannot bring your prints to the 4 Club night, then let me know via the competition email address.

The end of year judging night is Tuesday December 6 and as always we ask that you bring your partners/loved ones and a small plate of food.

Also, don’t forget about the President’s Trophy. The topic this year is “End of the line” and you can submit three EDI entries directly to Pete by Friday 2 December 2011.

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Judge: Shane Pendlebury

Printed images of the month

A grade: Donna Clarke – Athletics

B grade: Ray Anderson – Grapple

EDI images of the month

A grade: Donna Clarke – Sprite Racing

B grade: John Ho – Shine of dance