Guest Speaker - Susan Black

This month we have a guest speaker, Susan Black from Lancaster. Susan is an unheralded photographer, fairly recently jumping head first into the field after dabbling in it for a long time. One of our CKCS members, B.W. Blanton, “found” Susan at an art exhibit and thought she had a good message to send to aspiring photographers. So – We invited her to talk to the CKCS Digital Imaging Special Interest Group. Susan will talk to the group about how she got involved with photography, her approach to taking pictures and show a bunch of her images.

Our photo contest this month is on “Festivals”. Search your files or get out and take some new pictures of a “festival”. Knowing this group of photographers, it will be interesting in seeing what they think the word festival” means. E-mail your picture to Joe no later than January 25. Resample your image to 1000 pixels on the largest side if you can and e-mail it to joedietz@aol.com. Be sure to put photo contest in the subject line. Images must be received by January 25.

Please join us at Central Kentucky Computer Society on January 26, 2010 at 7 PM. 160 Moore Drive, Suite 106, Lexington KY 40503

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 size of the submitted photo should not exceed 1000 pixels for the larger side.
4. 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.

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")