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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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.

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")