Wednesday 21 November 2012

A New Lightroom Book

This is a BIG e-book with over 300 pages which you can download as a pdf file.  The table of contacts looks impressive (see below).  The list price is $20 but if any club member contacts me in the next 2 days I can send them a code for a discount to buy the book at $15 (just under £10).

LIGHTROOM 4 UNMASKED
This is a complete guide to Adobe Lightroom 4 and we know you'll love diving into this beefy book. At 312 spreads this PDF is full of high-resolution screenshots, step-by-step instructions, and the tips, tricks and ideas that make digital darkroom work productive and more enjoyable. If you’re looking to learn Lightroom 4 and need a resource to help you do that quickly, or you’ve just upgraded and need to get up to speed, this is a great value.

INTRODUCING THE BIGBOOK
A BIGBOOK is like an eBook but bigger. A lot bigger! It's a PDF that, other than the fact that it's fully searchable and loaded with hyperlinks, is really the text book you've always wanted, like those big, heavy ones you'd normally pay the big bucks for! We put our elves to work and we've produced a digital text book. Instead of carving up the content into smaller chunks we've created something BIG so that you can have a definitive resource at your finger tips while saving money at the same time.


1 GENERAL INTRODUCTION
What Is Lightroom and What Is It Not?
Working Non-destructively
A Typical Lightroom Workflow ..
2 THE CATALOG
Raw Developers and XMP Files
The Lightroom Catalog
Make a Backup of Your Catalog!
One or More Catalogs?
Using One Catalog on Multiple Computers
Upgrading Older Lightroom Catalogs
3 THE LIGHTROOM INTERFACE AND SHORTCUTS
The Lightroom Interface and Shortcuts
4 IMPORTING PHOTOS AND VIDEOS
Importing Photos and Videos
Importing New Images and Videos from a Memory Card
Importing Existing Images
Importing from Another Lightroom Catalog
Tethered Capture: Making Images with a Camera Connected
to Your Computer
5 THE LIBRARY MODULE
Evaluating and Rating Images
Deleting Images
Adding Keywords and Metadata
Stacking Images
Sorting and Comparing
Searching and Filtering
Organizing Images in the Folders Panel and Renaming Images
Organizing Images into Collections
Working with Virtual Copies
Quickly Editing Images in Quick Develop
Exporting and Publishing Images
6 THE MAP MODULE
Adding GPS Data to Images
Managing Photos via Saved Locations
7 THE DEVELOP MODULE
A New Lightroom, a New Process Version
Develop Module – Interface
A Typical Raw Work!ow
The Crop & Straighten Tool
Global Corrections
Local Corrections
Increasing Productivity
8 LIGHTROOM, PHOTOSHOP
AND OTHER EXTERNAL EDITORS
Opening One Image in Photoshop
Opening Multiple Images in Photoshop
Lightroom and Photoshop Elements
Other External Image Editing Plug-ins
9 EXPORTING, EMAILING
AND PUBLISH SERVICES
Exporting Photos and Videos
Exporting, Emailing and Publish Services
The Export Dialog Window in Detail
Emailing Straight from within Lightroom
Publish Services
Watermarks
10 THE BOOK MODULE
The book module
Making a Photo Album using Auto Layout
Custom made Book Layouts and changing an Automated Layout
11 MAKING SLIDESHOWS
Slideshow Module - Interface
The Building Blocks of a Slideshow
Tweaking the slideshow
Exporting your Presentation
Creative use of Identity Plates
12 THE PRINT MODULE
Print Module - Interface
Settings for the Single Image / Contact Sheet Layout Style
Settings for the Picture Package Layout Style
Settings for the Custom Package Layout Style
Making Print Templates
Examples
13 ONLINE WITH THE WEB MODULE 288
The Web Module Interface
The Airtight Simpleviewer settings
CONCLUSION
Appendix 1 – Lightroom Preferences
Appendix 2 – Catalog Settings

Case 1 Lightroom Dos & Don’ts
Case 2 Top 7 New Features in Lightroom 4 (Pro Case)
Case 3 What is new in Lightroom 4.1 and 4.2
Case 4 Advantages and Disadvantages of the Raw Format
Case 5 A Backup Workflow
Case 6 Working with Project Catalogs and an Archival Catalog (Pro Case)
Case 7 Scenarios for a Computer Setup
Case 8 The Import from Another Catalog Dialog in Detail (Pro Case)
Case 9 Synchronizing a Catalog on Di"erent Computers via Dropbox (Pro Case)
Case 10 Some Useful Tips
Case 11 Moving your Lightroom Installation to Another Computer (Pro Case)
Case 12 Shortcuts and Screen Real Estate Savers
Case 13 Adding a Personal Touch to the Lightroom Interface
Case 14 Working with Two Monitors (Pro Case)
Case 15 Solo Mode
Case 16 Personal Shortcuts (Pro Case)
Case 17 A Helping Hand
Case 18 Choosing the Right Destination When Importing and Making a General
Import Preset
Case 19 File-naming Templates
Case 20 Auto Import: Tethered Shooting with External Software,
Automatically Importing Scanned Images into Lightroom and More
(Pro Case)
Case 21 Library Module View Options
Case 22 Working with Two Cameras and Adjusting Capture Time
Case 23 Filter like a Pro: Locking and Combining Filters (Pro Case)
Case 24 Lightroom Detective
Case 25 File Management in Lightroom… Only a Mouse Click Away!
Case 26 Help, My Hard Drive is Full!
Case 27 Things Existing Users Should Know about Lightroom 4’s New Develop
Module (Pro Case)
Case 28 Getting up to Speed with the New PV2012
Case 29 The HDR Look in Lightroom
Case 30 Soft Proofing and Calibration
Case 31 Video in Lightroom
Case 32 Crop ’til You Drop!
Case 33 Black and White Conversion in Lightroom
Case 34 Black and White with Colour Accents
Case 35 Practical Tips for the Adjustment Brush
Case 36 Advanced Lens Corrections Tips and Automatically Correcting Lens
Corrections (Pro Case)
Case 37 The “Grungy Retro Style” in Lightroom
Case 38 Edit in Photoshop
Case 39 Making Photo Montages
Case 40 Faux HDR – Developing a Raw File Twice
Case 41 Some Interesting Export Plug-ins (Pro Case)
Case 42 Photoshop Actions and Lightroom (Pro Case)
Case 43 Publish Services and Flickr
Case 44 Lightroom and Your iPhone or iPad Portfolio
Case 45 The New DNG Options (Pro Case)
Case 46 Adding new Auto Layout presets
Case 47 Adding text to your album
Case 48 Reusing a Book’s Layout
Case 49 Adding Text Overlays
Case 50 Colour Management in Lightroom’s Print module
Case 51 Fine Art Print
Case 52 A CD inlay card for a photo CD
Case 53 Adding a Negative Border
Case 54 Making Greeting Cards and Invitations Using Custom Package
Case 55 Turning your Favourite Images into Business Cards
Case 56 Third-Party Layout Styles: normal galleries
Case 57 Third-Party Layout Styles: Client Proofing Galleries
Case 58 Building a Fully Functional Website within Lightroom
Case 59 Lightroom as a Social Media-ninja!
Case 60 Ten tips to make you even work faster in Lightroom

Friday 16 November 2012

Best Shots Competition

Click this link to a competition which will give you the chance to win a share of £10,000 in cash prizes and photographic kit.  


Will Cheung Lecture at Gateshead


NCPF Website Updates

The following updates have been made to the NCPF web site since the last update message and all can be accessed here.

1. Directory Updates
Details of 14 new Judges and 6 new additions to the NCPF Lecture List have been posted here on a downloadable PDF file.

2. News Items
A report and pictures from the recent Beamish Judging Evening and last Sunday’s NCPF Presentation Evening have been posted

3. PAGB e-news
Issues No. 78 and 79 are now uploaded, once again with much useful information.

Thursday 15 November 2012

PAGB E-News Issue 79

Issue 79 of E-News can be read by clicking here

In this issue:
1/2    Inter-Federation PDI Competition
3      APAGB presentation to Patricia Platt
4/5   Inter-Club Print Championship
6      Notices
7/8   Double Vision - Gwen & Phil Charnock
9      AV Awards for Photographic Merit
10    Inter-Club Print Championship
11    Wildlife POY and Gold Medal from the Print Championship
12    Inter-Club Print Championship - Backstage Award
13    GB Cup and other notices

Friday 2 November 2012

PAGB Print Championship

SPS was one of the two clubs representing the Northern Counties at the Print Championships last Saturday.

38 clubs were completing from GB & Northern Ireland.  In the first round we were =17th.  The top scoring 8 clubs then took part in the Final.  The remaining 30 clubs competed in the Plate Competition.  At the end of the Plate Competition SPS were =14th.  The highlight was SPS member Mike Nicholas gaining the top mark of 15 for his image 'Family Life.  Many congratulations to Mike.


Thursday 1 November 2012

E-News Issue 78


Please click on this link to see Issue 78 of e-news from the PAGB.

CONTENTS
1    Inter-Club Print Championship Result
2    The Best PDI in the Inter-Federation Competition
3    Featured Photographer - Harish Chavda
4    Notices, etc.
5    William Hogg ARPS
6    Sunderland PA - 125 Years old
7/8 Double Vision - Barbie & Russell Lindsay
9   Landscapes Never Win big competitions
10 Adverts
11 Awards for Merit in AV
12 PAGB Diary ... and Finally