Category: General

Tech Tip For VISTA Users

Dave Sumner

All you Vista users out there can have the blog updates come straight to your desktop via the sidebar. To do this you will need to do the following:

1. On the sidebar, not the taskbar at the bottom (where the clock, weather etc is displayed) add the news ticker twice. You’ll need one for the WCC Blog and another for the WCC Tech blog. You can use one ticker if you wish for all feeds but I use two to keep them seperate.

2. Navigate to the WCC blog http://wccmonthlynewsletter.blogspot.com/ and click the posts pull down menu under subscribe to WCC news. In the menu that appears select ‘atom’.

3. In the new window that appears under ‘Waverley Camera Club Members Information Blog’, click ‘subscribe to this feed’.

4. In the new window that appears click the ‘subscribe’ button.

5. The first window should reappear and it should have ‘You have successfully subscribed to this feed’ in there.

6. Go to your Vista desktop and in one of the newstickers that you installed in the side bar, hovver the mouse pointer over it and select the small spanner to enter the ticker options.

7. In the options, in the pull down menu, select the WCC feed you subscribed to and close the options.

8. repeat these steps for the Tech Help Blog http://wcctechhelp.blogspot.com/ on the other news ticker and you will now receive the updates direct to your desktop.

VAPS Newbrief email addresses

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There has been a request from the VAPS Newsletter Editor regarding email addresses, please ensure that if you haven’t received a VAPS newsletter and you should have, you inform him ASAP. If required please notify a WCC committee member who can pass on any changes for you. Please read on……..

This is the request from VAPS……

VAPS Newsbrief editor, Barrie Attwood, reported 30 Newsbrief emails bounced-back in February and we would appreciate your help to contact people who did not receive their February issue. Perhaps a line could be included in your club newsletter asking your members to make sure that Barrie has been advised of any change in their current email address, or to simply remind people to empty their email box in order to admit incoming mail.

We are hesitant to delete people from the email list, but repeated bounce-backs cause unnecessary additional work. If an address repeatedly sends an error message it will be deleted from the distribution list. Your help in this matter would be appreciated.

Before and After – by Ron Weatherhead

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I was asked whether I had altered my Water Lilly image in Photoshop (it won the projected image comp in Feb). I took this picture some time ago and could not remember so I searched and found the original image. It may be of interest to look at my “before and after” Photoshop images:
I liked the pattern of the leaves and cropped to include just the one flower. Remember Peter (our judge in Feb) Ryan’s advice – deciding what to leave out is important! The yellow leaf was a distraction so it was removed. The image was then enhanced by darkening increasing contrast and saturation. I cannot remember exactly what I did in Photoshop, but I suspect that I made a layer copy and then used the “Find Edges” filter which I then combined with the background layer “multiply” low “opacity” to highlight the water droplets.

Not all of my photos are worked on as much as this one. However, I do enjoy playing in Photoshop as it adds a great deal of creativity to my photography hobby.