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Course Leader: Tim Keane photo.processing.2018@waverleycameraclub.org Course Overview Aims Sufficient to enter competitions Intro to creative/ compositing Adobe Software cant do everything How and Why to adjust

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Course Leader: Tim Keane photo.processing.2018@waverleycameraclub.org

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Course Overview

 Aims

 Sufficient to enter competitions  Intro to creative/ compositing  Adobe Software – can’t do everything  How and Why to adjust

 Tim’s experience

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Crop & rotate

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Light: Dodge & Burn

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Colour: Convert to B&W

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Colour: Correct/ balance

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Cloning & Healing

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Transforming, cloning

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Colour: Selective colour

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Layers: Triptych

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Removing distractions: Blocking out

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Selective Colour

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Layers: Drop in

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Layers: Drop in Colour: Match/ balance

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Work flow overview

 Importing/ opening  Assessing  Basic global edits  Selective edits  Finishing  Output

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File Management

 Folder structure  Tim’s structure:

 Dogs  Family  Holidays  WCC

○ Creative ○ Current ○ Outings ○ Submitted

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Culling your shoot

 On SD or on a copy on computer  In Lightroom  Tag and/ or delete

 Know your editing skills

 Private interest or wider interest  Be brutal!

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Importing

 Most programs, just open the file

 Consider Save As now

 Lightroom – Import process

 For now, just import a single image or folder

○ More detail later in the course

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Assessing

 What did you see during the shoot  What do you see now  What are you pointing at  Are you trying to say too much  Strengths & weaknesses  What are the lines & relationships doing  What will you (try to) enhance

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The Basic edit – in order

 Auto enhance – accept or undo  Exposure  Colour correction  Contrast & clarity; Shadows & highlights  Spot removal  Final crop  Vignette  Save As

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The Basic Edit

 Demonstration in Microsoft Photos

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Software

Feature Photoshop Lightroom PSE MS Photos

Cost AUD 2018 15/month incl. LR 15/month incl. PS Or 220 outright 150 Outright Free For Beginners No Yes Best Easiest Basic edits Yes Yes Yes Yes Selective Basic Yes Yes Yes No Selective advanced Yes No Yes No Layers Yes No Yes No File management No Best Yes No Text Yes No Yes Drawing Many files Limited Best Limited No Support Tutorials Best Very Good Good No

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Plugin to get for Ps & PsE

 Adobe Camera Raw - Free

 https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-

raw-plug-in-installer.html

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Glossary

 Have a read…

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Homework

 Have a GO!  Try to simply improve something  Then try to make something really crazy

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Next Session

 File Management

 Lightroom

 Assessing images  Rotating & Cropping  Transforming  Distractions

 Spot removal, healing & cloning

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Course Leader: Tim Keane photo.processing.2018@waverleycameraclub.org

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Software

Feature Photoshop Lightroom PSE MS Photos

Cost AUD 2018 15/month incl. LR 15/month incl. PS Or 220 outright 150 Outright Free For Beginners No Yes Best Easiest Basic edits Yes Yes Yes Yes Selective Basic Yes Yes Yes No Selective advanced Yes No Yes No Layers Yes No Yes No File management No Best Yes No Text Yes No Yes Drawing Many files Limited Best Limited No Support Tutorials Best Very Good Good No

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Plugin to get for Ps & PsE

 Adobe Camera Raw - Free

 https://helpx.adobe.com/camera-raw/kb/camera-

raw-plug-in-installer.html

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Quick tour of Lr, PsE & Ps

 Modes  Menus  Panels  Main tools  Find Auto and Undo

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File Management in Lightroom

 Folder structure  Importing  Culling  … Processing/ Editing  Exporting

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File Management

 Folder structure  Tim’s structure:

 Dogs  Family  Holidays  WCC

○ Creative ○ Current ○ Outings ○ Submitted

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Assessing

 What did you see during the shoot  What do you see now  What are you pointing at  Are you trying to say too much  Strengths & weaknesses  What are the lines & relationships doing  What will you (try to) enhance

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Entering WCC Competitions

 Files must be:

 Named according to the specified format  JPEG in sRGB colour space of 2MB or less  No more than 1920 pixels wide and 1080 pixels

tall (these dimensions can NOT be switched around)

 Submitted via email (one message per member

with all entries for that month) to comp@waverleycameraclub.org

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WCC File Naming – Best to write it out

○ (your grade) A or B ○ (your member number) 1, 2 or 3 digit member number ○ (month) FEB, MAR, APR, MAY, JUN, JUL, AUG, SEP,

OCT, NOV. Please use 3 capital letters as you see here.

○ (year) two digits for the year ○ (section) PRINT (if the image is for the print section), EDI

(open EDI section) or SETSUBJECT (EDI set subject section). Again, please use capital letters.

○ (title) the name of your entry. Please use upper and lower

case as you see fit.  When you put it all together it should look like:

○ B111-SEP16PRINT-Best Print Ever.jpg

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Colour space and size

 Geoff Shaw of WCC has created this nifty

little app which does it all for you.

○ http://austvic.com/wcc/

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Step 1 Select and fill for file naming Step 2 Choose file from Your computer Step 3 CLICK to GO! App will return an image in the correct format, Right click and “Save As” or “Save link As” back on your computer.

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Don’t forget to email your entry

comp@waverleycameraclub.org

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Next Week…

 Rotating & cropping  Transforming  Healing & Cloning out distractions  First glimpse at layers - Triptych

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Course Leader: Tim Keane photo.processing.2018@waverleycameraclub.org

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Assessing

 Do you like the image? Why?  What visual aspects make you feel this way?  How are contrasts and colours working?  What are the lines & relationships doing?  Strengths & weaknesses  What can you learn

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Rotating & Cropping

 Rotating

 Straightening: Horizon, buildings  How does it look upside down/ sideways/ flipped

 Cropping

 What are you pointing at?  Output needs, aspect ratio  Room to move or unimportant space  Image within an image  Diagonals

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Transforming

 Stretch  Perspective  Skew  Free transform

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Cloning out distractions

 Copying and pasting with a brush  Spot removal, healing – program chooses

where to copy from

 Cloning – you choose where to copy from  Can build/ fill with stuff which wasn’t there

 Watch out for creating patterns which draw the

eye

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Demonstration

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First Glimpse at Layers

 Think of them as Transparencies  Select, (right click), copy as layer  Add another image (File>Place…)  Play with Opacity, Blending mode  Triptych

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Layers - Triptych

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Course Leader: Tim Keane photo.processing.2018@waverleycameraclub.org

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Monitor Calibration

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Monitor Calibration

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Monitor Calibration

 Get a device - Spyder or Colour Munki  Rough – use Windows

 Windows > Settings > search for calibration

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Light – Global Adjustments

 Exposure  Contrast  Highlights & Shadows  Levels  Curves

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Light - Selective

 Dodge & Burn  Gradients  Vignettes  Watch out for Halos

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Colour

 Hue & Saturation  Chromatic Aberration  Conversion to B&W  Selective colour

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Colour Space

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Warmth slider Temperature slider

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Course Leader: Tim Keane photo.processing.2018@waverleycameraclub.org

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Bits & Pieces

 Calibration  Stroke  Basic selecting  Photoshopping in/ out  Text  Textures  Sharpening

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Stroke

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Basic Selecting

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Photoshopping in & out

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Text

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Textures

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Sharpening - subtle