Digital Photography SIG
This SIG meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month at 7.p.m.
Taking pictures has never been easier. Make use of your Virtual Darkroom and join us!
We play with digital photos from cameras or film scanners. We try to improve them with good software,
and then display them either in print or on screen. It's lots of fun and we all learn together!

SIG Leader: Joe Dietz
joedietz@aol.com

This Month's Web Page and Program Notes


Digital Photography Special Interest Group

May 22, 2012

FastStone

We originally had planned for Debbie Cooper to give a presentation about her making a book about historic Letcher County. Unfortunately, Debbie ran into some complications that she had to deal with and will not be able to talk with us this month. She assures me she will do it later. So what do we do this month???? After some quick soul searching I decided to give a presentation on a fairly new program called FastStone. What is it?? Well, FastStone is a fairly extensive program that does lots of stuff: fix up pictures, batch process your files, run a slide show that can include music, tags images, prints contact sheets and lots more. When I downloaded the program there was an option to download the tutorial (many tutorials are very brief and worthless which was what I expected.) This turotial was 95 pages and as I went through it I was impressed with the “user friendly” approach that it had. An it is free!. Check out their web page for more information. http://www.faststone.org Anyway, join us on May 22 as I try to demonstrate a good program that is fun,easy and free. The photo contest for the night is “grave markers”. Head out to your favorite grave yard and take a few pictures (maybe at night???). Please submit your image to joedietz@aol.com by the evening of the 21st. Oh yeah – bring a friend.

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Photo of the month Competition

Here are the new topics for 2012.
January - Events - fairs, circus, parades, etc. February - Snow and/or ice; March - Clocks; April - "Not Your Ordinary Sign"; May - Grave Markers; June - Machinery Parts; July – Annual Photo Contest – three catagories - 1. Historic Places. 2. Nature up close and 3. Reflections; August - Something Hot; September - Curves and Angles; October, Fog and Mist; November - A Tree with Character; December – no meeting - Merry Christmas..

Guidelines for our Photo-of-the-Month competition

1. All members of CKCS can submit one photo each to our Photo-of-the-Month competition.
2. No photo that has already won a prize at one of our competitions can be re-submitted. That includes our ”Hall-of-Fame” Exhibits.
3. The photos will be submitted to the SIG leader at least a day before the SIG meeting. The names of the photographer will not be known to the voters until after the vote has taken place. The SIG Leader who knows the names will be excluded from voting.
5. Every member present at the meeting votes for only one photo.


At our SIG Meeting in March 2003, Bob Wade distributed his document Pixel Basics: -- Click here
At our SIG Meeting in April 2003, Bob Wade distributed his document Selecting a Digital Camera. -- Click here

Topics of former SIG Meetings:-- Click here
Our Mystery Landmark List
-- Click here

Our Mystery Object List
-- Click here
Our Kentucky Geography Gurus List:
-- Click here
Our Lexington Store Gurus List:
-- Click here

Equipment Reviews

http://www.dpreview.com/ --Phil Askey's site with extensive reviews of digital cameras
http://www.dcresource.com/ --Jeff Keller's site with very good reviews
http://www.steves-digicams.com/ --Steve's reviews of digital cameras
http://www.imaging-resource.com/ --Cameras, scanners, tips and FAQs
http://www.digitalcamera-hq.com/ --Consumer Electronics Headquarters
www.letsgodigital.org/en/index.html --Online Magazine for Digital Imaging

Camera Tips

How Digital Cameras Work http://www.howstuffworks.com/digital-camera1.htm
Choosing a Digital Camera http://www.beststuff.com/articles/603/
Choosing a Digital Camera http://http://www.shortcourses.com/
List of Cameras http://www.imaging-resource.com/DIGCAM04.HTM
List with price comparisons http://http://www.digital-camerastore.com/
http://www.digital-camera.com/whichcamera.htm

Help for Paintshop Pro

For Beginners: http://www.pspug.org/(PSP User Group, with forums and tutorials)
Tutorials http://www.psplinks.com/(Angela Cable's many links)
Tutorials for PSP 9 http://users.adelphia.net/~suzshook/9tips.htm (Suz Shook on PSP 9)
Tutorials for PSP X http://users.adelphia.net/~suzshook/10tips.htm (Suz Shook on PSP X)
Tutorials for PSP XI http://users.adelphia.net/~suzshook/11tips.htm(Suz Shook on PSP XI)
Tutorials for PSP X2 http://users.adelphia.net/~suzshook/12tips.htm(Suz Shook on PSP X2)

Help for Photoshop Users

http://www.photoshopcafe.com/ --Tutorials and more for Photoshop users

Some Web-based Courses

http://www.dpcorner.com/ --Short Course on Basics by Arthur Bleich. Also lists other D.Photo Sites
http://www.photocourse.com/ --A Photo Course by Dennis P. Curtin
http://www.shortcourses.com./ --Short Courses by Dennis P. Curtin
http://www.betterphoto.com/ --Jim Miotke's "All about Photography" & Online Courses
http://www.nyip.com/ --New York Institute of Photography

Newsgroups at Corel (Shows up in "Outoook Express")

Paint Shop Pro X --Corel's PSP X Newsgroup
Corel's PSPP XI --Corel's PSPP XI Newsgroup
Corel's PSPP X2 --Corel's PSPP X2 Newsgroup
PSP Scrapbooking --Corel's PaintShopPro_Scrapbooking Newsgroup
PSP_Photography --Corel's PaintShopPro_Photography Newsgroup
PSP_Scripting --Corel's PaintShopPro_Scripting Newsgroup

Tips and Tricks

http://www.sphoto.com/ --Steve Hoffman (Photographer) reviews and gives tips, esp. on scanners
http://www.scantips.com./ --Wayne Fulton's VERY useful Scanning Tips and more


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